24 July 2012
BBC News - Photos displayed on Metropolitan Police Service databases declared unlawful
In a landmark case brought by Bindmans client RMC, the High Court has ruled that the Metropolitan Police’s policy of keeping custody photographs of everyone arrested, often for many years, is unlawful and in breach of the right to private life. Bindmans solicitor Najma Rasul, a police misconduct specialist who represented RMC, comments in an interview for BBC London News.
19 June 2012
Channel 4 News - Tony Nicklinson – “A legal mountain to climb”
Katie Razzle, Channel 4 News reporter, examines the case of Tony Nicklinson, who lives with locked-in syndrome and is appealing for the right to ask a doctor to help him die. Bindmans partner Saimo Chahal, who represents Tony, said: “There is a legal mountain to be climbed. The arguments being put forward are extremely novel and far reaching.”
18 June 2012
Channel 4 Dispatches - Nicklinson right to die case goes to the high court
The high court hears details of the life of Tony Nicklinson, who lives with locked-in syndrome and is appealing for the right to ask a doctor to help him die. Bindmans partner Saimo Chahal, representing Tony, comments on the case.
7 May 2012
BBC News - Malayan ‘massacre’ families seek UK inquiry
Malaysians seeking an inquiry into the 1948 killing of 24 villagers by UK troops say their relatives' deaths were "cold-blooded mass murder". Bindmans partner John Halford, representing the claimants, comments on the case: “What happened at Batang Kali was an extremely serious human rights abuse.”
12 March 2012
BBC News - Locked-in syndrome sufferer wins high court hearing for his right to die
Tony Nicklinson told by judge he can proceed with legal case that could result in doctor being allowed end his life. Bindmans partner Saimo Chahal, who represents Tony, comments on the case.
12 March 2012
Channel 4 News - Tony Nicklinson wins right to have case heard in high court
Tony Nicklinson who sums up his life as “dull, miserable, demeaning, undignified and intolerable”, will now have his case heard fully later this year. Bindmans partner Saimo Chahal, who represents Tony, comments on the case.
