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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...Silk: 2013
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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...Silk: 1972
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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...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...Call: 1980
David Bateson is a leading international arbitrator who has acted in over 150 arbitrations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America. He has acted as Chairman, party-appointed arbitrator, or...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...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...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,...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,...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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,...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...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.
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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...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...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...Call: 1999
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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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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,...Call: 2002
Commentaries in the UK directories, including The Legal 500 2021 and Chambers and Partners UK Bar and the Planning Magazine’s Planning Law Survey (juniors) in which Juan has been rated over many...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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,...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,...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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”...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...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...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...Call: 2006
Ashley’s practice encompasses Commercial and Insurance law as well as Civil Liability. Ashley’s broad commercial law practice sees him instructed in claims in the areas of Banking, Property,...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,...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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,...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...Call: 2010
Emma is an experienced and confident advocate who appears regularly in Court as well as at JSMs and mediations. Emma is a member of the Personal Injuries Bar Association Executive Committee, an...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...Call: 2011
Daniel Stedman Jones practises in public law, specialising in planning, environmental, energy and regulatory/competition. He represents developers, companies, central and local government authorities,...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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,...Call: 2013
David’s practice spans across Chambers’ specialisms in commercial dispute resolution, financial services, construction, public and regulatory law. Reflecting the breadth of his practice, over the...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...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...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...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...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...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...Call: 2016
James has a broad practice covering Chambers’ specialisms in commercial litigation, international arbitration, construction, financial services and public law. James has developed an international...Call: 2016
Joe-han practises across the full spectrum of commercial disputes. He has a particular focus on contractual, insolvency, construction, civil fraud, and financial services disputes. He has appeared in...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...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...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...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...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...
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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...Silk: 1991
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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...Silk: 1989
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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...Silk: 1993
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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...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...
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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,...
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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...Call: 1990
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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...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...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...Silk: 2018
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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...Silk: 1989
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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...
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Year of call: 2008 (India) 2018 (England & Wales) Vivek Kapoor acts as counsel and advocate in large scale, complex and high value commercial disputes and investor-state disputes. He has...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...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...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 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...
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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,...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,...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...Silk: 1992
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Philippe has a broad and international practice specialising in commercial, public, mixed civil (including property) and employment disputes. He has a particular interest in commercial matters with an...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...Call +44 (0)20 7832 1111 for more information
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Whilst some of our Members of Chambers and staff are working remotely from home, we have a staff and barrister team on site in our London office and all of our other international offices during business hours.
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Whilst some of our Members of Chambers and staff are working remotely from home, we have a staff and barrister team on site in our London office and all of our other international offices during business hours.
Please telephone us on our main line +44 (0)20 7832 1111. Alternatively, you can either email or use direct dial or mobile numbers. Our clerking team’s direct contact details (email, telephone and mobile) can be found here and staff details here. Members’ direct dials can be found on their personal profiles by downloading their vCard.
We are also asking for all instructions and documents electronically. Where hard copies have to be sent to Chambers, please liaise in advance with the relevant clerk and member to arrange delivery directly to the barrister concerned.
Members can easily attend conferences and hearings using our telephone and video virtual conferencing facilities.
If you are planning to visit Chambers please read our Covid-19 Visitor Notice – click here.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact our Chief Executive Lindsay Scott (Call: +44 (0)20 7832 1115) or our Senior Clerk, Alastair Davidson (Call: +44 (0)20 7832 1181).