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Bar Pro Bono Award

19 October 2016
Issue: 7719 / Categories: Legal News
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John Collins of Zenith Chambers has won this year’s Bar Pro Bono Award for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work over a career spanning six decades. In the past five years, Collins has worked on 11 cases for the Bar Pro Bono Unit.  He is currently acting pro bono in the inheritance case of Ilott v Mitson [2015] EWCA Civ 797, which is going to the Supreme Court. His commitment to pro bono work in the pollution case, Bell v Northumbria Water [2016] EWHC 133, was praised by the presiding judge, Judge Saffaman. 

Issue: 7719 / Categories: Legal News
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