Sean @SeanBSullivan

9BR Chambers congratulates Sean Sullivan (@SeanBSullivan) upon his appointment by His Majesty The King as a Recorder on the advice of the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chief Justice. Sean will sit in the Crown Court and has been deployed to the North Eastern Circuit. ➡️ Read more: 9brchambers.co.uk/resources/news… ➡️ Find out more about Sean Sullivan's expertise: 9brchambers.co.uk/our-people/sea… ➡️ For more information on our criminal barristers, contact our clerking team at [email protected] or call 020 7489 2727. #CriminalLaw #Crime #9BRChambers

Sean Sullivan (@SeanBSullivan) and Emma Louise Heath (@emma_heath1) successfully prosecute three defendants for firearms and drug supply offences following a five-week trial. The defendants faced charges of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, possession of prohibited firearms, and drug supply offences. The Crown’s case established that the lead defendant used his workplace—a fast-food restaurant—as a front for the storage and supply of firearms and viable ammunition, whilst dealing in wholesale quantities of Class A drugs. CCTV footage from within the premises, spanning a 48-hour period, captured the handling and transfer of firearms between the defendants and others. The prosecution relied on both forensic and drugs expert evidence. One of the firearms recovered was linked to a shooting days earlier. A submission of no case to answer, made by the lead defendant at the close of the prosecution case, was successfully opposed by the Crown. The lead defendant received a sentence of 18 years’ imprisonment. ➡️ Read more: 9brchambers.co.uk/resources/news… ➡️ Find out more about: • Sean Sullivan's expertise: 9brchambers.co.uk/our-people/sea… • Emma-Louise Heath's expertise: 9brchambers.co.uk/our-people/emm… ➡️ For more information on our criminal barristers, contact our clerking team at [email protected] or call 020 7489 2727. #CriminalLaw #Crime #9BRChambers

Peter Glenser KC and Sean Sullivan (@SeanBSullivan) appear in leading firearms case. JD was prosecuted for possessing what was said to be a 3D printed lower receiver of an FGC-9 semi-automatic firearm. The trial judge, Mr Justice Foxton, made a ruling of general importance to the definition of a component part and the application of the “capability” defence within the Firearms Act 1968. JD was originally prosecuted for an offence of possession of a prohibited weapon to which the prosecution said he had, as a matter of law, no defence and to which he would be liable to a sentence of at least five years’ imprisonment. Once the ruling was given the prosecution indicated a plea to a less serious offence would be acceptable. JD pleaded to that offence and was conditionally discharged thereby avoiding any sentence of imprisonment. Peter and Sean were instructed to defend JD by Nick Seeley of Lawtons Solicitors. ➡️ The ruling can be found here: caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewcr/2025/10?q… ➡️ Read more about the case: 9brchambers.co.uk/resources/news… ➡️ Find out more about: • Peter Glenser KC 's expertise: 9brchambers.co.uk/our-people/pet… • Sean Sullivan’s expertise: 9brchambers.co.uk/our-people/sea… ➡️ For more information on our criminal barristers, contact our clerking team at [email protected] or call 020 7489 2727. #CriminalLaw #Crime #Firearms #9BRChambers

@TBlighe @KemiBadenoch Reagan was setting out a principled objection to tariffs with historical backing. Kemi endorses it. Relying on Reagan makes a separate and useful point to American conservatives who are following Trump's lead. Whatever your problem is, it's not a lack of detail being given.

@TBlighe @KemiBadenoch It's in the video Tony, just listen to the video and feel the pleasing sensation of your expectations being met.

@TBlighe @KemiBadenoch And yet you didn't understand her words if you think the objection is simply because Trump is involved. The words you quote set out that reason - no one will benefit.

@TBlighe @KemiBadenoch How can you possibly take that from listening to the video she has endorsed?

Kidnapped alive by Hamas. Now dead because of Hamas. May their memory be a blessing.

So British hostage Emily Damari was held in UNWRA facilities and the British government under Starmer continues to fund that organisation. What fools the Hamas terrorists must take us to be.

@jerryhayes1 You won't be finding a Crown Court in Eire.

Such a very sad loss. I will miss his company and kindness.

9BR Chambers @9BRChambers

2 years ago

Chambers is sorry to announce the passing of Anthony Berry K.C.

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🧵1/ It is not true that the removal of Israel arms licenses was a legal decision. Keir Starmer should not hide behind this fig leaf. It was *very* much a political decision. #PMQs I know this, because as Trade Secretary, responsible for arms licenses, I saw the legal advice. So why has the decision been made? It’s because Labour are scared…👇

The Report of the Grenfell Inquiry is all the more compelling because the Chair was chosen on merit: my letter in today’s @thetimes .

Hamas took his hand. Murdered his friends. Kidnapped him, torn and bloody. Psychologically tortured his family for months. Then executed him when rescue was near. Along with five more innocents. The pain is too big. I cannot find sadness. Only rage. I am sorry Hersh. I am sorry.

@DrEmmaNash @PaulEmbery He didn’t say that, did he? He just suggested that people be polite.

What a morally bankrupt statement.

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs

2 years ago

Relieved that four hostages have been released. It should not have come at the expense of at least 200 Palestinians, including children, killed and over 400 injured by Israel and allegedly foreign soldiers, while perfidiously hiding in an aid truck. This is "humanitarian

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Fantastic news. All strength to Israel until all their hostages are home. I would expect the UK to do no less in the same situation.

Israel ישראל @Israel

2 years ago

This morning, in a joint special operation held by the @IDF, ISA and the Israeli Police 4 Israeli hostages were rescued from Gaza: Noa Argamani (25) Almog Meir Jan (21) Andrey Kozlov (27) Shlomi Ziv (40) They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the

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Noa Argamani reunited with her father ❤️‍🩹 Noa was rescued just hours ago after spending 8 months as a hostage in Gaza.

Sam Harris: "Of course, the boundary between Anti-Semitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern—and I’m not sure that it is always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t distinguish between collateral damage in a necessary war and conscious acts of genocidal sadism that are celebrated as a religious sacrament by a death cult. Our streets have been filled with people, literally tripping over themselves in their eagerness to demonstrate that they cannot distinguish between those who intentionally kill babies, and those who inadvertently kill them, having taken great pains to avoid killing them, while defending themselves against the very people who have just intentionally tortured and killed innocent men, women, and yes… babies… If you have landed, proudly and sanctimoniously, on the wrong side of this asymmetry—this vast gulf between savagery and civilization—while marching through the quad of an Ivy League institution wearing yoga pants, I’m not sure it matters that your moral confusion is due to the fact that you just happen to hate Jews. Whether you’re an anti-Semite or just an apologist for atrocity is probably immaterial. The crucial point is that you are dangerously confused about the moral norms and political sympathies that make life in this world worth living."

@JMPSimor @DXW_KC I’ll leave the exchange to speak for itself.