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Welcome to 39 Essex Chambers
39 Essex Chambers is a leading set based in London, Manchester, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Our barristers offer a depth of expertise in a range of specialist sectors and practice areas.
Practice Areas
- Administrative & Public
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Banking & Finance
- Civil Liability
- Clinical Negligence
- Commercial
- Construction
- Costs & Litigation Funding
- Court of Protection
- EU Law
- Inquiries & Investigations
- Intellectual Property
- International Arbitration
- International Litigation
- Medical Treatment
- Personal Injury
- Planning, Environment & Property
- Regulatory & Disciplinary
- Tax
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Inquiries & Investigations
What our barristers offer
39 Essex Chambers has long experience of appearing in public and private inquiries, both as counsel to the Inquiry and acting for participants in inquiries.
Our experience
Inquiries
Our barristers have been instructed in the most high-profile domestic inquiries, including:
- the Jay inquiry
- the Infected Blood inquiry
- the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry
- the Grenfell Tower inquiry
- the Chilcot inquiry
- the Rosemary Nelson inquiry
- the Al-Sweady inquiry
- the Leveson inquiry
- the Hillsborough inquiry
- the Hutton inquiry
- the Bloody Sunday inquiry
- the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry
- the Ayling and Kerr-Haslam private inquiries
- the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust inquiry
- the Soham Inquiry
- The Commission of Enquiry into the failure of CL Financial Limited, Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, CLICO Investment Bank Limited, British American Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited, Caribbean Money Market Brokers L limited and the Hindu Credit Union Co-Operative Society Limited
We have represented clients in many inquiries in the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Our barristers have represented clients in litigation arising out of inquiries, including:
- Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Scholes v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Inquests
We have extensive experience of inquests, both representing parties in high-profile inquests such as that into the death of Harold Shipman, the Deepcut Inquest and the Hillsborough Inquest as well acting in litigation about the scope of inquests, such as R (Lewis) v HM Coroner and Secretary of State for Justice.
Planning and environmental inquiries
Our barristers regularly appear at planning and environmental inquiries, hearings and examinations. These include all types of planning appeal, including retail, housing, waste, energy, Planning Act development consents and enforcement, environmental permitting appeals and water resources management plan inquiries.
We have promoted development plan documents through the examination process. Examples include acting in the Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station Development Consent Order Application inquiry and the Camden Town Station Redevelopment public inquiry.
Legislation
We act in hybrid and private bill proceedings, including numerous instructions on the Crossrail bill.
Click here to download our Safeguarding Investigations Group Capability Statement
Who to contact
Sheraton Doyle is the Senior Practice Manager for the Inquiries & Investigations team and will, along with the clerking team below, be able to help you with any questions.
Sheraton Doyle
Call: +44 (0)20 7832 1144
Mobile: +44 (0)7921 880 670
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