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Charlie Cory-Wright QC
(Joint Head of Chambers)

Call: 1984 Silk: 2006

Richard Harwood OBE QC
(Joint Head of Chambers)

Call: 1993 Silk: 2013

Penny Cooper B.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D.
(Professor)

Call: 1990

Peter Hurst LLB MPhil FCIArb *

Charlie Cory-Wright QC

Silk: 2006
Call: 1984

Joint Head of Chambers

Charlie Cory-Wright QC specialises in catastrophic injury claims and clinical negligence claims. He also regularly works in the public law field, both in healthcare related matters, and as a vetted...

Richard Harwood OBE QC

Silk: 2013
Call: 1993

Joint Head of Chambers

Richard Harwood OBE QC specialises in planning, environment, art and public law, acting for developers, landowners, central and local government, individuals and interest groups. He appears in the...

Simon Goldblatt QC

Silk: 1972
Call: 1953

Simon Goldblatt QC has a wide-ranging civil practice advising and conducting litigation in commercial, construction, company and common law disputes, whether of a domestic or international...

John Tackaberry QC

Silk: 1982
Call: 1967

During his career at the Bar, John Tackaberry MA, LLM (Pub Int Law), FCIArb has undertaken a wide range of work both as a Junior – e.g. Pickin v British Railways Board [1973] 1 QB 219, [1974]...

Edwin Glasgow CBE QC

Silk: 1987
Call: 1969

Edwin Glasgow has extensive experience as an arbitrator and mediator. He is a popular arbitrator and an outstandingly successful mediator, having successfully settled in excess of 90 per cent of the...

Brian Ash QC

Silk: 1990
Call: 1975

The main areas of Brian Ash QC’s practice are in the fields of Planning, Compulsory Purchase and Highway law, together with the broad range of Environmental, Public Law and Judicial Review...

Nigel Pleming QC

Silk: 1992
Call: 1971

Nigel Pleming QC is consistently noted in the legal directories. In the Legal 500 he is recommended in the areas of Administrative and Public law, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Professional...

John Steel QC

Silk: 1993
Call: 1978

John Steel QC’s main areas of practice are planning, environmental, aviation, and compulsory purchase law. He specialises in public inquiries and judicial review. He is cited as a recommended...

Richard Wilmot-Smith QC

Silk: 1994
Call: 1978

Richard Wilmot-Smith QC is a specialist in all aspects of construction and engineering litigation and arbitration. His experience includes disputes involving performance bonds, guarantees, and...

Richard Spearman QC

Silk: 1996
Call: 1977

Richard Spearman QC has a wide ranging general chancery, commercial and common law practice. In particular, he is regularly instructed in cases involving commercial fraud, tracing, media and...

William Norris QC

Silk: 1997
Call: 1974

William Norris QC has a wide ranging advocacy and advisory practice and is noted for his ability to get on with people, take a strategic view of litigation or projects and run litigation teams...

Matthias Kelly QC

Silk: 1999
Call: 1979

Matthias Kelly QC is well known for his expertise in the fields of clinical negligence, health care, health & safety, personal injury and related professional negligence and regulation. He also...

Paul Darling OBE QC

Silk: 1999
Call: 1983

Paul Darling OBE QC has established a formidable reputation as an advocate in all types and levels of tribunals all over the world. He specialises in complex cases which feature multiple parties,...

Gregory Treverton-Jones QC

Silk: 2002
Call: 1977

Greg Treverton-Jones QC specialises in regulatory and disciplinary issues concerning legal professionals. He has appeared in many of the leading cases on the topic, both for the regulators and...

Neil Block QC

Silk: 2002
Call: 1980

Neil Block QC has a reputation as a sensitive but brave advocate, a skilled negotiator and commercially aware practitioner. For many years Neil has represented a range of clients involved in...

Susan Rodway QC

Silk: 2002
Call: 1981

Susan Rodway QC has a wealth of experience from over 15 years acting as Leading Counsel across a wide spectrum of civil and commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, in particular...

Peter Village QC

Silk: 2002
Call: 1983

The principal areas of Peter Village QC’s practice are planning and environmental law, compulsory purchase and related public law and commercial disputes. His planning practice covers the full...

Stuart Catchpole QC

Silk: 2002
Call: 1987

Stuart Catchpole QC is recognised as one of the leading advocates at the modern Bar, both internationally and in the UK. He has been consistently identified in the domestic and international legal...

Colin McCaul QC

Silk: 2003
Call: 1978

Colin McCaul is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an RICS Accredited Mediator, recognised by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Civil Mediation Council and Scottish...

Timothy Lyons QC BL

Silk: 2003
Call: 1980

Timothy Lyons QC was called to the Bar in 1980 and took Silk in 2003. He has also been called to the Bar of the Republic of Ireland (1998 – please click here for his web profile) is registered on...

Adrian Hughes QC

Silk: 2006
Call: 1984

Adrian Hughes QC acts as counsel and arbitrator with a broad international and UK construction and commercial practice. He focuses on complex contract disputes spanning a wide range of sectors,...

Stephen Tromans QC

Silk: 2009
Call: 1999

Stephen Tromans QC is generally recognised as the leading practitioner in environmental law in the UK. As long ago as 1991 when a partner at Simmons & Simmons, he was named as the...

Charles Manzoni QC

Silk: 2009
Call: 1988

As a qualified Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Charles worked in the international development department of a multi-national blue chip industrial company for five years before qualifying as a...

Thomas Hill QC

Silk: 2009
Call: 1988

Thomas Hill QC has more than 25 years’ experience in the fields of planning, environmental, compulsory purchase and related administrative law. He is regularly instructed at public inquiries and...

Peter Rees QC

Silk: 2009
Call: 2014

Peter Rees QC specialises in international commercial arbitration and is widely recognized as one of the leading practitioners in this area in the world. He has been recommended as a leading expert in...

Steven Kovats QC

Silk: 2010
Call: 1989

Steven Kovats QC is a public law specialist who, prior to taking silk, was on the Attorney General’s A Panel for civil litigation. Steven’s practice covers all aspects of public law. His...

Eleanor Grey QC

Silk: 2011
Call: 1990

Eleanor Grey QC took silk in 2011. She has a thorough understanding of public authorities, especially the health and social care sector, and of disciplinary and regulatory proceedings. Clients include...

Lisa Giovannetti QC

Silk: 2011
Call: 1990

Lisa has a broad public law practice, with a particular focus on human rights, asylum,immigration, and civil liberties. She is recommended by Legal 500 2016 for Administrative & Public Law, Civil...

Jenni Richards QC

Silk: 2011
Call: 1991

Jenni Richards QC has an extensive public law and regulatory practice acting for individuals, public bodies and public interest groups in all areas affected by public law and regulation. She is...

Paul Stinchcombe QC

Silk: 2011
Call: 1985

Paul Stinchcombe QC was called to the Bar in 1985 and built up a substantial practice in planning, public and environmental law before becoming an MP in 1997. After returning to the Bar in May 2005,...

Fenella Morris QC

Silk: 2012
Call: 1990

Fenella Morris QC is a versatile advocate with a wide-ranging practice that encompasses public law and human rights, professional regulation and discipline, pensions and financial services, local...

James Strachan QC

Silk: 2013
Call: 1996

James Strachan QC has an extensive practice in administrative and public law, planning and environment, major infrastructure & DCOs, compulsory purchase and compensation, local government,...

Marion Smith QC

Silk: 2015
Call: 1981

Marion Smith QC specialises in complex, high value commercial and construction disputes for UK and international clients. She has extensive experience litigating matters before domestic courts and...

Vikram Sachdeva QC

Silk: 2015
Call: 1998

Vikram is a highly accomplished and multi-talented advocate who specialises in public law and human rights, commercial law, tax, regulatory and disciplinary, medical law, and costs. He has appeared in...

Derek O'Sullivan QC

Silk: 2016
Call: 1990

Derek O’Sullivan QC’s practice concentrates on very high value catastrophic injury claims. Derek is also regularly instructed in a wide range of insurance disputes and by...

Michael McParland QC

Silk: 2017
Call: 1983

Michael McParland QC is a commercial silk with 35 years’ experience of trial and appellate advocacy in domestic and international civil and commercial litigation, arbitration and cross-border...

Andrew Tabachnik QC

Silk: 2017
Call: 1991

Andrew Tabachnik QC has a versatile and wide-ranging practice, specialising in cases of complexity, and encompassing (in particular) planning and compulsory purchase; and disciplinary and regulatory...

Kate Grange QC

Silk: 2017
Call: 1998

Kate Grange QC has a broad practice which combines both public and commercial law. She is a former member of the Attorney General’s A-Panel of Counsel. She regularly appears on behalf of central...

Deok Joo Rhee QC

Silk: 2017
Call: 1998

Deok Joo Rhee QC’s practice covers all areas of public law, EU and human rights law. Within these fields the particular focus of her practice is EU economic and social policy, including public...

Karim Ghaly QC

Silk: 2017
Call: 2001

Karim Ghaly QC specialises in the litigation and arbitration of substantial construction, engineering, energy, infrastructure and PPP/PFI disputes. He has appeared before the Court of Appeal, TCC and...

Lindy Patterson QC

Silk: 2010
Call: 2017

Lindy Patterson QC is an international arbitrator, adjudicator and dispute board member as well as arbitrator within the UK. She operates across many jurisdictions, both civil and common law, and with...

Adam Robb QC

Silk: 2018
Call: 1995

Adam Robb specialises in the litigation and arbitration of large construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes, often involving professional negligence and insurance issues. He has experience...

Parishil Patel QC

Silk: 2018
Call: 1996

Parishil Patel has a wide ranging public law practice which encompasses health, community care, local government (including regulation, audit and standards), telecommunications, data protection and...

James Todd QC

Silk: 2019
Call: 1990

James Todd’s practice covers high value personal injury and clinical negligence claims, acting for claimants and defendants. James is recommended by Chamber & Partners for Personal Injury and...

David Brynmor Thomas QC

Silk: 2019
Call: 2011

David Brynmor Thomas QC is a globally recognised specialist in the conduct of complex, high-value, international commercial litigation and arbitration. He...

Rory Dunlop QC

Silk: 2019
Call: 2002

Rory is recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners in six practice areas: administrative and public law, professional discipline and regulatory law, data protection, immigration and...

Victoria Butler-Cole QC

Silk: 2019
Call: 2005

Richard Wald QC

Silk: 2020
Call: 1997

Richard Wald is an environmental, planning and public lawyer. He is ranked by Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 in the categories of Environmental Law (1st tier of Leading Juniors), Planning...

John Pugh-Smith

Call: 1977

John Pugh-Smith’s principal practice area is town and country planning with related environmental, real estate, local government and parliamentary work. He is also an experienced alternative dispute...

Simon Edwards

Call: 1978

Simon Edwards has vast experience of all aspects of costs and litigation funding. He appears frequently in high level cases in the SCCO and advises on knotty retainer issues helping with the drafting...

David Bateson *

Call: 1980

David Bateson is a leading international arbitrator who has acted in over 150 arbitrations in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America. He has acted as Chairman, party-appointed...

Geoffrey Brown

Call: 1981

Geoffrey Brown is recommended in the Property Damage section of Chambers & Partners (London, Band 1) 2018, also ranked in Personal Injury section (Band 2). “… known for being “ferociously...

Christian Du Cann

Call: 1982

Christian Du Cann has appeared in both the Chambers Directory and the Legal 500 as a leading junior barrister in personal injury every year since 1998. He is also ranked for Industrial Disease in...

Karen Gough

Call: 1983

Karen Gough practises internationally as counsel, attorney-at-law, arbitrator, adjudicator and ADR neutral. She has specialised, for more than 30 years, in complex construction, engineering,...

Jonathan Bellamy

Call: 1986

Jonathan Bellamy has an established litigation, arbitration and advisory practice in commercial law. His sector experience includes construction, infrastructure, energy, insurance and reinsurance,...

David Bradly

Call: 1987

David Bradly’s practice in the areas of regulatory and disciplinary law, public inquiries and personal injuries has seen him appearing in the Courts (including the Administrative Court), at...

Loretta Malintoppi (Rome)

Call: 1987

*Called 1987 (Rome Bar) An Italian lawyer by training, Loretta has an LLM from Georgetown University Law Centre in Washington DC and is dually qualified, at the Rome and Paris Bars. Loretta has also...

Bernard Doherty

Call: 1990

Bernard has great experience in both conflict of laws and complex personal injury claims, making him the obvious choice for the most serious cross border personal injury litigation. He has been...

Celina Colquhoun

Call: 1990

Top planning lawyer, ranked Tier 2: “She has a track record of infrastructure matters.” Legal 500 2021 “Highly competent when faced with challenging circumstances.” Legal 500 2020...

Andrew Kearney

Call: 2007

Andrew is an experienced and highly regarded construction and engineering barrister. He is also a Chartered Arbitrator, has judicial experience, and is an experienced construction Adjudicator...

Emily Formby

Call: 1993

Emily Formby is well known for her extensive Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence practice. Within these specialisations, she has wide experience acting for both claimant and defendant in all...

Damian Falkowski

Call: 1994

Damian Falkowski practises in general commercial, banking and property matters. Recently he acted for a US hedge fund in a $100 million tracing claim obtaining freezing injunctions and Norwich...

Duncan Sinclair

Call: 1996

Duncan Sinclair maintains a deliberately broad practice in public law, planning and environmental law, EU / competition law (including public procurement) and commercial disputes. A former head of...

Adam Fullwood

Call: 1996

Adam Fullwood’s main areas of practice are public and administrative law (community care / adult social services, care homes, charging, safeguarding, housing, Inquests, Inquiries, prison, care...

Christiaan Zwart

Call: 1997

Christiaan Zwart has an extensive practice in Planning & Infrastructure Law, Environmental & Energy Law, Public and Local Government Law. He regularly represents developers, local authorities,...

John Denis-Smith

Call: 1998

John Denis-Smith is a commercial barrister who dedicates his energy, knowledge and ingenuity to getting clients the quickest and most favourable results. Previous experience as a construction...

Judith Ayling

Call: 1998

Judith has a busy practice in clinical negligence, personal injury and costs funding. She was chosen as one of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2018.

Caroline Truscott

Call: 1998

Camilla Church

Call: 1998

Camilla Church is a specialist personal injury practitioner. She has developed her practice both at the Bar and also as in-house counsel for a leading litigation firm. As in-house counsel Camilla...

Romilly Cummerson

Call: 1998

Romilly Cummerson has a busy and well-regarded practice encompassing personal injury, clinical negligence and professional indemnity claims. She represents Claimants and Defendants in all aspects of...

Nicola Greaney

Call: 1999

Nicola has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses public law, medical negligence, professional regulation and discipline, Court of Protection (health and welfare and property and affairs), costs and...

Colin Thomann

Call: 1999

Neil Allen

Call: 1999

With particular interests in human rights, mental health and incapacity law, Neil practises from Chambers, teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students, and delivers training to health, social care...

Sian Davies

Call: 1999

Sian Davies has experience in advocacy, advice, and drafting in public law matters, across the full range of legal issues encountered by adult social services, children’s services and housing...

Anthony Edwards

Call: 1999

Anthony specialises in heavy construction disputes arising from building & engineering activities both nationally and internationally; acting for employers, contractors and consultants relating to...

Shaman Kapoor

Call: 1999

Shaman’s practice covers several ﬁelds of commercial and common law with his costs practice bridging over both ﬁelds. He is regularly in the High Court and SCCO and receives instructions...

Katharine Scott

Call: 2000

Katie Scott has spent the last nineteen years advising and representing clients in all things health related, from personal injury and clinical negligence, to community care, mental health, and...

Jess Connors

Call: 2000

Jess Connors specialises in substantial and complex commercial and construction disputes. She regularly appears before the English Commercial Court, the TCC, and in international arbitrations...

Simon Murray

Call: 2000

Simon Murray specialises in all areas of public law and human rights work and related actions against public bodies. He provides advice and representation in complex, sensitive and often high-profile...

James Burton

Call: 2001

Environmental & Planning Junior of the Year 2015, Chambers UK Bar Awards James specialises in environmental and planning law and civil liability, along with related areas (such as CPO, Part I Land...

Alexander Ruck Keene

Call: 2002

Alex Ruck Keene is an experienced barrister, writer and educator. His practice is focused on mental capacity and mental health law, in which he is able to provide specialist advice and representation,...

Christopher Staker

Call: 2003

Christopher Staker has extensive experience in international law and public law, at both national and international levels. He is an experienced advocate in cases before international courts...

Ben Olbourne

Call: 2003

Ben Olbourne provides advisory and advocacy services across a broad range of international commercial disputes, in England and other jurisdictions, in relation to both court and arbitration...

Fiona Paterson

Call: 2003

Fiona has been ranked by the directories as a leading junior in the fields of Administrative and Public Law, Court of Protection and Regulatory Law. She acts both for and against the state in...

Alexandra Bodnar

Call: 2004

Alexandra Bodnar is a sought-after barrister specialising in the litigation and arbitration of UK and international construction and commercial matters. She regularly represents clients in the English...

Sadie Crapper

Call: 2004

Sadie Crapper’s practice concentrates on personal injury and clinical negligence and police law. She is ranked by the legal directories for both fraud and PI: Chambers UK 2021: Personal injury...

Robert Lazarus

Call: 2004

Robert Lazarus practises in the areas of professional discipline, clinical negligence, serious medical treatment and personal injury. He is also instructed in relation to inquests, professional...

David Mitchell

Call: 2004

David’s practice spans employment, public and defamation, privacy & information law. His advocacy is split between trial and appellate work. He is appointed to the Attorney General’s A panel...

Mungo Wenban-Smith

Call: 2004

Mungo Wenban-Smith has a broad practice spanning a wide range of administrative & public law, including work in the court of protection, environmental & planning law, property law and...

Caroline Allen

Call: 2005

Caroline Allen’s practice is focussed upon personal injury, clinical negligence and costs work. She has particular experience of workplace claims including claims involving work-related stress,...

Alexis Hearnden

Call: 2005

Alexis Hearnden is an experienced advocate with a successful regulatory and public law practice. She acts for regulators and those they regulate across a range of professions including solicitors,...

Rachel Troup

Call: 2005

Rachel has a multi-disciplinary litigation practice with particular specialisms in public law, investigations, regulatory and disciplinary matters, corporate offences, inquiries and inquests. A highly...

David Sawtell

Call: 2005

David specialises in substantial construction and property disputes, as well as commercial dispute resolution. He is frequently instructed in cases involving the development and use of land, buildings...

Camilla ter Haar

Call: 2005

Camilla ter Haar has a broad practice which combines commercial and construction law. She regularly acts in international and domestic matters for a range of public and private clients and their legal...

Andrew Deakin

Call: 2006

Andrew Deakin is a public lawyer. His practice focusses on human rights, national security, prisons, and mental health. He has experience of acting in politically sensitive public inquiries and...

Peter Mant

Call: 2006

Peter Mant specialises in public and administrative law, professional discipline and costs. His practice spans a broad range of areas governed by public law, regulation and human rights, including...

Quintin Fraser

Call: 2006

Quintin practises across a range of chambers’ specialisms with a particular focus on personal injury (including fraud), clinical negligence, and insurance related matters. He undertakes work for...

Ned Helme

Call: 2006

Ned Helme specialises in administrative and public law, environmental and planning law, financial services law, local government law, and regulatory and disciplinary law. He is ranked in both the...

Jack Anderson

Call: 2006

Jack Anderson specialises in all areas of public law including education, immigration, healthcare, social care and local government law. In 2017 he was promoted to the Attorney General’s “B”...

Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho

Call: 2006

Kelly’s practice centres around EU law, tax law and commercial disputes, involving litigation at every level of English Court, specialist tribunals, arbitral tribunals and the CJEU. Her...

Edmund Townsend

Call: 2006

Edmund undertakes work across the spectrum of Chambers’ practice areas including insurance, product liability, professional negligence, clinical negligence, personal injury, property damage and...

Katherine Apps

Call: 2006

Katherine’s practice spans public and human rights law, disciplinary/ regulatory, EU, employment and commercial law. She has particular expertise in appellate advocacy and in domestic and...

Ashley Pratt

Call: 2006

Ashley Pratt is a mixed Civil/Commercial practitioner. Ashley’s practice has developed very quickly and has been involved in cases usually the preserve of those of greater call. He comfortably deals...

Rebecca Drake

Call: 2007

Rebecca Drake specialises in high value commercial and construction disputes, both domestic and international. She represents a diverse clientele of businesses, representing FTSE-rated companies,...

Thomas Amraoui

Call: 2007

Thomas Amraoui has a varied public law practice with particular strengths in community care, education, housing, the Children Act 1989 and mental health law. He is ranked as a leading junior in...

Jennifer Thelen

Call: 2007

Jennifer has a broad legal background, having practiced both corporate and regulatory law before being called to the Bar. That breadth is reflected in her practice, which spans public and commercial...

Zane Malik

Call: 2007

Zane Malik is a barrister specialising in public law and human rights, with an emphasis on immigration, asylum, nationality, EU and regulatory law. He is one of the Attorney General’s Panel Counsel...

Jack Holborn

Call: 2008

Jack’s practice focuses on civil liability, public law and costs. He is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Counsel and the Panel of Special Advocates. Jack undertakes a range of civil...

Philippa Jackson

Call: 2008

Philippa Jackson specialises in planning and environmental law administrative and public law, local government law and commercial law. She has been consistently ranked as one of the top planning...

Steve Broach

Call: 2008

Steve Broach is a public lawyer who advises and represents individuals, charities, companies and public authorities. He has particular interest and expertise in health, education and social care, with...

Catherine Dobson

Call: 2009

Catherine Dobson has a broad practice which combines general public law and environmental law. She was called to the Bar in 2009 and since then has been instructed in some of the leading cases in...

Benjamin Tankel

Call: 2009

Benjamin Tankel practises in commercial law, administrative & public law and regulatory & disciplinary law. He has been involved in some of the major public law cases of recent times,...

Vaughan Jacob

Call: 2009

Vaughan is a strong and experienced court room advocate. He represents both Claimants and Defendants in a range of civil courts, including the Court of Appeal, High Court Queen’s Bench and Chancery...

Ian Brownhill

Call: 2009

Ian specialises in public law, human rights and regulatory law. Ian has a broad public law and human rights practice which focusses on mental capacity, education law, criminal justice, prison and...

Anna Lintner

Call: 2009

Anna is a commercial and chancery practitioner specialising in commercial disputes, banking and finance litigation, insolvency and company litigation and civil fraud. Anna is particularly interested...

Patrick Hennessey

Call: 2010

Patrick Hennessey is a barrister qualified in England & Wales but with extensive international experience, particularly in South East Asia and the Middle East. His practice is focussed on...

Rose Grogan

Call: 2010

Rose Grogan has a multi-disciplinary practice, specialising in environmental and planning law, public law (including commercial public law), and construction law and energy law. She is an...

Angela Rainey

Call: 2010

Angela Rainey practises across the range of chambers’ civil liability work, specialising in insurance fraud and indemnity; commercial disputes; clinical negligence and personal injury; accidents...

Hannah McCarthy

Call: 2010

Hannah specialises in construction and engineering, energy, and professional negligence, as well as general commercial work. She is regularly instructed by domestic and international clients in...

Annabel Lee

Call: 2010

Annabel specialises in public law and human rights, in particular, in healthcare and mental capacity law. She also accepts instructions in commercial and construction law. As a public lawyer, her...

Emma Corkill

Call: 2010

Emma is an experienced and confident advocate who appears regularly in Court as well as at JSMs and ADR. Emma is a member of the Personal Injuries Bar Association Executive Committee, an Advocacy...

Niraj Modha

Call: 2010

Niraj Modha specialises in commercial, construction, and property litigation and arbitration. Niraj has considerable experience in the Chancery and Queen’s Bench Divisions of the High Court and the...

Daniel Stedman Jones

Call: 2011

Daniel Stedman Jones practises in public law, specialising in planning, environmental and energy law. He represents developers, companies, central and local government authorities, landowners and...

Samar Abbas Kazmi

Call: 2011

Samar Abbas Kazmi specialises in commercial, construction and technology disputes, with a particular emphasis on international arbitration (in relation to which he is regularly ranked in legal...

Tom Tabori

Call: 2011

Tom Tabori is a specialist public law barrister, with expertise in human rights law, education law, electoral law, immigration law, equalities law, information rights, and regulatory law. He...

Melissa Shipley

Call: 2011

Melissa specialises in construction law and international arbitration. Her experience spans litigation, arbitration, adjudication, mediation and dispute board proceedings. She regularly acts as sole...

Victoria Hutton

Call: 2011

Victoria has a busy practice with a particular specialism in, planning, environmental and energy law. She is the co-author of ‘Planning Policy’ (Bloomsbury 2018 with Richard Harwood Q.C.) and is...

Karishma Vora

Call: 2011

Year of call: 2006 (India) 2011 (England & Wales) Karishma has a busy commercial litigation practice representing companies and individuals in high value claims before the Commercial Court and...

Jonathan Darby

Call: 2012

Jon’s planning, environmental and property practice complements broader public and administrative law interests and his varied civil liability work. Jon appears regularly in all types of court and...

Nicola Kohn

Call: 2012

Nicola Kohn has a broad practice spanning public and human rights law and general common law including, personal injury and regulatory and disciplinary law. She also has a substantial Court of...

Samantha Jones

Call: 2012

Samantha has a broad civil litigation and public law practice, with particular expertise in inquests and inquiries, court of protection, clinical negligence and personal injury, professional...

Adam Boukraa

Call: 2013

Adam has a broad practice across public law and human rights as well as regulatory and environmental law. He has been appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel and is listed as a...

Rosie Eleanor Scott

Call: 2013

Rosie accepts instructions across all areas of Chambers’ work, with a particular interest in administrative and public law, planning and environmental law. Rosie makes regular court appearances,...

David Hopkins

Call: 2013

David has a broad practice covering Chambers’ specialisms in commercial dispute resolution, financial services, construction, public and regulatory law. David frequently represents parties in a...

Michael Standing

Call: 2013

Michael practises across the full range of chambers’ civil liability work with a particular interest in cases where fraud is alleged or suspected. He undertakes work in insurance fraud; personal...

Katherine Barnes

Call: 2014

Katherine practises planning and environmental law, as well as public law and human rights in its broadest sense. She is recommended by several of the Legal Directories: • Recognised as “rising...

Rachel Sullivan

Call: 2015

Rachel Sullivan accepts instructions across all areas of Chambers’ work, with a particular interest in public, commercial, and planning and environment law. She regularly appears in the County...

Daniel Laking

Call: 2015

Daniel has a broad civil practice, and specialises principally in the fields of personal injury and clinical negligence, insurance fraud, costs, inquests and inquiries, and health and safety. He has a...

Stephanie David

Call: 2016

Stephanie has an expanding practice across several of Chambers’ specialisms with a particular interest in matters affecting health, sport and the environment. Stephanie was junior counsel to Nigel...

Daniel Benedyk

Call: 2016

Daniel’s practice focuses on commercial litigation (particularly civil fraud), international arbitration, construction, financial services and regulatory law. Daniel is frequently instructed across...

James Bradford

Call: 2016

James Bradford accepts instructions across all areas of Chambers’ work, with a particular interest in commercial & construction law, international arbitration, public law & human rights and...

Joe-han Ho

Call: 2016

Joe-han has a broad commercial practice. He has experience in a range of commercial litigation and arbitration matters, including contractual, insolvency, construction, civil fraud, and financial...

Ruth Keating

Call: 2017

Ruth Keating has a broad practice across all areas of Chambers’ specialisms, with a particular interest in commercial, environmental law, energy and construction disputes, public law and civil...

Gethin Thomas

Call: 2017

Gethin Thomas has a broad practice across all areas of Chambers’ specialisms, with a particular interest in public law & human rights, environment & planning, commercial, energy and...

Daniel Kozelko

Call: 2018

Daniel accepts instructions across all areas of Chambers’ practice, with a particular interest in civil law, commercial and construction law, environmental and planning law, public law, and...

Nicholas Higgs

Call: 2018

Nicholas is a dual-qualified barrister and Chartered Engineer having come to the Bar from a previous career with Ove Arup & Partners. He is able to accept instructions across all areas of...

The Rt. Hon. Lord Dyson

Lord Dyson was Master of the Rolls (President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Head of Civil Justice) for four years until he retired in October 2016. He was a Justice of the Supreme...

The Rt. Hon. Sir David Keene

Silk: 1980
Call: 1964

Sir David Keene was educated at Hampton Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a First in law and then obtained the postgraduate BCL degree. He was awarded the University’s...

Sir Wyn Williams FLSW

Silk: 1992
Call: 1974

Sir

Sir Wyn Williams accepts appointments as an arbitrator and mediator for both domestic and international disputes. Sir Wyn was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1992 and a deputy High Court...

Sir David Foskett

Silk: 1991
Call: 1972

Sir

David accepts appointments as an arbitrator, mediator or early neutral evaluator, both domestically and internationally, and is available to conduct independent inquiries or chair disciplinary...

Sir Colin Mackay

Silk: 1989
Call: 1968

Sir

Sir Colin Mackay was called to the Bar in 1968, elected as a Bencher in 1995 and took silk in 1989. Colin is a former Head of Chambers at 39 Essex Chambers. He was appointed a Recorder in 1992, a...

The Hon. Wayne Martin AC QC

Silk: 1993
Call: 1988

The Honourable Wayne Martin AC QC was Chief Justice of Western Australia between 2006 and his retirement from the bench in July 2018. Prior to his appointment he practised at the Western Australian...

Nael G Bunni *

Professor

Professor Dr Bunni’s principal areas of practice are conciliation / mediation and arbitration. He has specialised professional expertise in construction insurance; various aspects of structural...

Baroness Chakrabarti CBE

Call: 1994

Baroness Chakrabarti CBE is the Shadow Attorney General. A lawyer, she is Chancellor of the University of Essex, Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Manchester, Honorary Fellow of...

David Feldman *

Professor

Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. David Feldman’s research and teaching interests cover a wide range of public law fields,...

Paul Craig *

Professor

Paul Craig is Professor of English Law, St John’s College, Oxford. Paul was formerly Professor in Law 1996-1998 Worcester College; Lecturer, Magdalen College, 1974-1975, Reader 1991-1996. Paul...

Penny Cooper B.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D.

Call: 1990

Professor

Professor Penny Cooper is a world-leading expert on the effective participation of witnesses. She provides specialist legal and expert opinion to law firms, policy makers, judges and government bodies...

Andrea Biondi

Call: 2001

* Called 2001 (Avvocato, Bar of Florence) Andrea Biondi is Professor of European Union Law and Director of the Centre of European Law at King’s College London. In his practice, he has provided...

Archibald Findlay SC

Call: 1999

Archibald Findlay SC has been both sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator, as well as counsel in domestic arbitrations in South Africa for some 30 years. More recently, from 1988, he has been involved in...

Paul Hayes QC

Silk: 2018
Call: 2005

Paul Hayes commenced practice as a Barrister at the Sydney Bar in 1990 (read with Bernard Coles QC, University Chambers), before relocating to the Melbourne Bar in 1997 and was called to the bar in...

Denys Hickey

Call: 1975

Denys Hickey has over forty years legal experience, with a strong reputation for arbitration. Denys is very well known for oil and gas and commodity trading work as well as for fraud and general...

Matthew Horton QC

Silk: 1989
Call: 1969

Matthew Horton QC has a wide ranging practice in public and administrative law, local government law and property law. Within those areas he provides advocacy and advice mainly on planning,...

Peter Hurst LLB MPhil FCIArb *

Peter Hurst LLB MPhil FCIArb was the Senior Costs Judge of England & Wales, at the Royal Courts of Justice, from 1992 to 2014. During a judicial career which has spanned thirty years, he was also...

Vivek Kapoor

Vivek Kapoor acts as counsel and advocate in large scale, complex and high value commercial disputes and investor-state disputes. He has particular expertise in disputes arising from energy, mining...

Patrick Lane SC

Call: 1977

Prior to being called to the Bar in 1977, Patrick Lane SC served his articles of clerkship at a leading Johannesburg firm of Attorneys during which time he passed the Attorney’s admission...

Steven Lim

Call: 1992

Steven is an arbitrator and advocate with more than 25 years’ experience in international dispute resolution and arbitration in Asia. Steven sits as presiding, sole, co-arbitrator and emergency...

David Mayhew

Call: 2011

David Mayhew is a leading advocate and adviser in contentious financial services regulatory work and has a wealth of experience working for major financial services institutions facing regulatory and...

Boyd McCleary CMG CVO *

Boyd McCleary CMG CVO is an accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator and acts primarily as mediator in international and cross-border disputes. Boyd is based in London but regularly works...

Michelle Pratley

Call: 2006

Michelle Pratley is an experienced advocate with a successful public law and regulatory practice. Her areas of particular expertise are mental capacity and mental health, education, community care,...

Kristina Stern SC

Call: 1996

Kristina Stern SC has a broad based practice including commercial / contract disputes, mining dispute and regulation, environmental law, arbitration, public / administrative law, taxation,...

Swee Im Tan

Call: 1987

Swee Im Tan is a Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple), Chartered Arbitrator, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow of the Asian...

Augustus Ullstein QC

Silk: 1992
Call: 1970

Augustus Ullstein QC has built up and maintained a wide ranging practice in a number of areas including; Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Product Liability, Sports Law, Construction, Insurance,...

Philippe Kuhn

Call: 2017

Philippe is building a broad and international practice specialising in commercial, public, mixed civil (including property) and employment disputes. He has a particular interest in commercial matters...

Tom van der Klugt

Call: 2019

Tom accepts instructions across all of chambers’ practice areas. Before transferring to the Bar, Tom trained as a commercial solicitor at Freshfields, qualifying into the firm’s litigation...