Lauriston Lights – Serle Court Summer workshop

On 21 August members of Serle Court provided a legal workshop for Lauriston Lights, a charity which seeks to reduce educational inequality by running summer camps which bring together university students with bright children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The workshop, this year led by Professor Suzanne Rab and attended by Zoe O’Sullivan QC, Simon Hattan, Jamie Randall and solicitors from Forsters LLP, takes the form of a mock trial based on a real life dispute about the authorship of a song by Bob Marley. The children are assisted in developing examination in chief and cross examination, and they act as the barristers in the mock trial, while the barristers play the witnesses. You can see a picture of a workshop on this page under “external workshops”.

Serle Court have been running these workshops since 2013 in several schools in East and North London.

Related Barristers

Zoe O’Sullivan KC

Call: 1993
Silk: 2015

Simon Hattan

Call: 1999

Jamie Randall has a practice spanning a wide range of disputes concerning commercial and personal interests, and frequently the interconnection between the two. His recent trust and probate work covers the full spectrum of traditional chancery proceedings, including claims for breach of trust, accounts and removal of trustees, proprietary estoppel, 1975 Act claims, and probate disputes. Those cases often have an international element and he has acted on cases in numerous jurisdictions, including Jersey, Guernsey, Singapore, The Bahamas and Bermuda. His commercial work often includes claims for breach of fiduciary duty, deceit, unfair prejudice and insolvency-related issues.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Jamie worked in strategy consulting focused on the financial services sector. He approaches cases with pragmatism and always maintains a focus on the commercial outcome for clients. He also still enjoys being able to apply his financial experience to complex claims concerning valuation and forensic accounting issues.