Barristers' Chambers in the UK - F to J
maintained by Delia Venables
Guildhall Chambers Portsmouth
Particular strengths in civil law including all aspects of family and children matters, personal injury,
employment law, property law and insolvency.
9-12 Bell Yard
is a leading set of barrister chambers specialising in
Criminal Law.
All members of Chambers have experience & expertise in criminal
litigation both prosecuting and defending.
Falcon Chambers is a set of 35 barristers, 9 Queen's Counsel and 26 juniors, all of whom
specialise in property law. The members of chambers work principally in
the litigation of the many aspects of real property and property-related
law, and also in advisory and drafting work in the same fields. A number
of free articles are available on the site on property topics
Farrars Building, the Chambers of Patrick Harrington QC,
is a long established set of common law chambers with an excellent reputation built up over many years.
They provide a high quality service for Claimants and Defendants in a wide range of work. Practice areas
fall within the broad categorisation 'General Common Law', but Members of Chambers specialise in the distinct
fields both individually and collectively. Chambers is not formally divided into practice groups, but there
are informal meetings of those practising in Personal Injury/Professional Negligence and Employment.
Members of Chambers practice primarily in London and the South East but they retain strong connections
with the Wales and Chester circuit with a number of silks practising predominantly on that circuit,
although still clerked from London.
There are free email bulletins on employment topics and personal injury topics respectively.
Fenners Chambers, founded in Cambridge in 1973,
has established a reputation in East Anglia and the East Midlands for a professional and businesslike
approach to the provision of legal services. There is also a base in Peterborough.
Fenners Chambers is organised around groups of barristers, each led by a senior member of chambers and
specialising in different areas of work: Commercial, Crime, Environment & Planning, Employment, Family, Personal Injury, Property and Probate & Inheritance law. Within each group there is further individual specialisation.
Field Court Chambers has now been established from the merger of
2 Field Court and 17 Bedford Row and is based at 5 Field Court, Gray's Inn. The specialisms are in Civil,
Family and Public Law. Head of Chambers is Lucy Theis QC.
4 Field Court
is now replaced by Stone chambers - so see under S.
Chambers of Richard Ferguson QC is a set of
predominantly criminal practitioners. They also practice in libel,
commercial, general civil and licensing.
187 Fleet Street, the Chambers of Andrew Trollope QC,
is a specialist criminal set of Chambers, conducting prosecution and defence work, principally, but not
exclusively, in London and the South East. They
moved from 1 Middle Temple Lane in 2001, having been there since its inception in 1976.
Chambers covers all aspects of crime, with particular expertise in the fields of: serious fraud,
financial regulatory offences, murder, drugs offences and matters arising out of both the Drugs
Trafficking Offences Act and Proceeds of Crime Act, mental health cases, sexual offences,
health and safety, police disciplinary matters, terrorism and war crimes.
Foundry Chambers based in Blackfriars Road, in London,
is a progressive new set of barristers chambers formed for the purpose of providing fast and cost efficient
service to professional and lay clients. They specialise in employment, charity, and discrimination law
and particularly welcome clients under the 'direct public access' rules. They offer
free training in grievance and disciplinary procedures to small charitable organisations.
The course content can be found on the site.
Fountain Chambers was
established as Middlesbrough's first Barristers' Chambers in 1970 to satisfy the
demand for specialist advocates in all areas of law to serve Teesside and the North East.
It is mainly a criminal and common law chambers and also has specialists who deal with
commercial and business law, clinical negligence, local government and licensing.
Fountain Court Chambers,
the chambers of Michael Brindle QC and Michael Lerego QC, is a long established
and substantial set of commercial barristers' chambers, based in the Temple, London.
There are 59 members of which 21 are silks. The site includes updates to a book published by Sweet and
Maxwell called Commercial Court Procedure
5 Fountain Court, Birmingham is now called No5 chambers, so see under "N".
8 Fountain Court, Birmingham
is one of the smaller Common Law sets
in Fountain Court with specialists in family work, personal injury,
clinical negligence, commercial work and crime.
There is a special immigration section with
articles including an article on an introduction to immigration law.
Francis Taylor Building (formerly at 2 Harcourt Buildings) is a
long-established and leading set of Public Law Chambers specialising in
planning, environmental, licensing, administrative and parliamentary
work, all increasingly influenced by E.C. Law and the European
Convention on Human Rights. Members of Chambers undertake specialist
advisory work and appear regularly at planning inquiries, the High
Court, the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords, the Lands Tribunal and
before Select Committees in Parliament. They also appear at the ECJ.
Furnival Street, with
particular expertise in Asset Forfeiture, Money Laundering, and Criminal Law.
One Garden Court,
Family Law Chambers, has 47 members. This is the largest
set of Chambers in which all members specialise in family law.
There are a number of articles on family law issues on the site (kept well up to date)
as well as a pdf version of their newsletter which also includes articles on family law topics.
Two Garden Court
has now moved and has changed its name to Garden Court Chambers - see below.
Garden Court Chambers is built upon professional excellence,
a fearless commitment to further human rights and social justice working to the highest ethical standards.
Over the past 30 years, they have built a reputation as one of the leading multi-disciplinary chambers
in the UK with over 80 highly regarded barristers.
They have a contract with the Legal Services Commission that enables them to provide support services in
Housing, Immigration and Employment, without charge.
They have created a bank of specialist
legal resources on their web site, relevant to their practice areas (take "Resources" and then "Legal Resources").
They have set up five major headings: Civil Legal Resources, Crime Legal Resources, Family Legal Resources,
Housing Legal Resources and Immigration Legal Resources. Within each of these, they have set up around a dozen
sub topics, for example, under Immigration Legal Resources, there are sections for
Appeals & Judicial Review, Asylum & Refugee Law, Asylum Support (Community Care and Welfare Benefits),
Deportation & Expulsion, and so on. They have then housed all of the resources (cases, relevant legislation and
useful links) together under these headings.
The site makes extensive use of the new Statute Law database, thus providing links to up-to-date versions of the legislation.
The key reported cases cited in each section involving Garden Court Chambers make extensive use of BAILII.
There are also links to the key official, government and European bodies relevant to each section as well as
to Chambers' current awareness bulletins on Employment Law, Housing Law and Immigration Law and other internal reports
and materials.
Garden Court North Chambers (The Chambers of Ian Macdonald QC),
formed in 1996, is a progressive set of barristers with a strong commitment to publicly funded work and
to offering representation to those disadvantaged by discrimination and inequality. This ethos underpins
their emphasis upon criminal defence and civil rights based work in all the areas in which they practice.
Based in Manchester, they were recommended as "only set in the North which has set its stall out to do
human rights work" in Chambers & Partners 2006. The site offers a substantial number of case commentaries
in their areas of work and also a series of news items on legal rulings and topics.
Garden Square is a newly formed specialist criminal law
chambers in Leicester, founded with the specific aim of providing experienced jury advocates to the East Midlands
area and beyond. All members of chambers are well known and established members of the Midland Circuit.
Chambers' areas of expertise covers all aspects of the criminal law, both prosecution and defence,
legally aided and privately funded. In addition, some of the barristers also have specialist areas of
knowledge which extend to Mental Health Review Tribunals, Courts-Martial, Licensing Law, Police Disciplinary
hearings, Personal injury, Health and Safety and Trading Standards cases.
Goldophin Chambers, the chambers of
Barrie van den Berg, is the only set of chambers in Cornwall and offers comprehensive
and high quality service in most areas of litigation. Founded in 1990 shortly after the establishment of
the new Combined Court Centre in Truro, it has recruited very experienced counsel from London and Bristol
and is situated very near both the Court and the centre of town.
The 13 members include those experienced in all areas of criminal and family
law as well as others who concentrate on work in the Chancery and Queens Bench Divisions.
Goldsmith Chambers
the Chambers of Philip Sapsford QC, are specialists in Family Law, Criminal Law and Civil Law.
9 Gough Square - a leading
multi-disciplinary Common Law barristers chambers.
In addition to accepting privately funded, insurance-backed
and legally-aided work they are pleased to consider
conditional fee agreements where appropriate.
1 Gray's Inn Square is the chambers of Angus Gloag and
Jonathan Goodman. It is is one of the largest and longest established Barristers' Chambers in Gray's Inn.
Chambers boasts an excellent reputation both within the Inn and at the Bar in general, both for its
high quality work and progressive outlook. Chambers is particularly proud of its diverse composition and
commitment to equal opportunities.
2-3 Gray's Inn Square
are a modern set, recognised as a leader in their fields by all the current guides.
They are recognised experts in the areas of law: Local Government,
Planning, Housing, Environment, Licensing, Civil Litigation and Regulatory Crime.
Many current members hold part-time judicial appointments, sit as legal assessors on various disciplinary
boards and tribunals, including the RICS, the Lands Tribunal, the Adjudication Panel of England & Wales
and sporting bodies' dispute resolution panels. Members also sit as arbitrators and act as treasury counsel.
They act for over 300 local authorities, central government departments and public bodies as well as companies
and individuals. Their work extends as far as Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and the West Indies and includes
European law and the Convention on Human Rights. They offer direct access to approved professional bodies.
2 Gray's Inn Square Chambers is a general common law set,
established in 1992. Chambers work particularly in Employment, Family (Financial & Property),
Family (Children) and Property & Commercial law. Since 1993, Chambers has been at the
forefront of organising continuing education seminars, all accredited for CPD.
There is also a section relating to Direct Public Access, and the barristers who are able to take
on work under this scheme,
here.
3 Gray's Inn Square is now 25 Bedford Row.
4-5 Gray's Inn Square -
a large and well established set with many QC's, the areas of law covered include
public law and judicial review, planning and environmental law, commercial law, European
Community law, human rights and employment law.
10-11 Gray's Inn Square is a progressive set of chambers
dedicated to the provision of expert legal services to all sectors of society. Members
act on behalf of a range of individual, professional, corporate and public clients as well as for a
number of NGOs and voluntary organisations. Chambers offers a full range of legal services in both
domestic and international jurisdictions, from research to representation in the fields of crime, family,
civil, public and international law.
Gray's Inn Tax Chambers provide
specialist tax advice and tax appeal litigation. A tax and VAT case
reporting service is offered on the site, which provides online digests of all recent
tax cases in which members of chambers have appeared (although not very up to date), with full transcripts
in some cases. There are also articles and comprehensive links to other tax links worldwide.
Great James Street Chambers, led by Alun Jones QC, now has eleven
full members, having started with four in January 2005. Most of their work is based on the criminal law.
They prosecute and defend in the Crown Court, but maintain diverse practices, and are determined not to become
too dependent on publicly-funded work. They value not only their Crown Court work but also extradition, judicial
review and mutual legal assistance specialisations, building upon the practice which Alun Jones has developed
over many years, and advisory work in the field of international criminal law.
Three members are immigration practitioners, conducting work in business immigration and asylum.
Members are regularly involved in judicial review, and two members specialise in the obtaining of emergency
interlocutory injunctions.
Guernsey Bar introduces the profession of Guernsey
Advocate and Guernsey law itself. There is extensive background information on the legal system in
Guernsey, an introduction to the Guernsey Bar, contact details for Guernsey
firms and advice about how best to work with a Guernsey Advocate.
There is also a detailed glossary of legal terms and links to other legal sites in the Channel Islands.
Guildford Chambers
provides a comprehensive service in all areas of criminal,
civil and family advisory and advocacy work to all solicitors in private or
corporate practice, prosecuting and local authorities.
Guildhall Chambers, Bristol,
is one of the larger regional sets, with 64 members of which 5 are silks. Guildhall comprises a
thriving criminal team as well as successful commercial, insolvency, property and personal injuries
teams. The website holds much useful legal resource material, including an
archive of Guildhall's widely respected newsletters.
Guildhall Chambers Portsmouth is a medium sized Barristers’
Chambers with an established presence on the Western Circuit. Each individual barrister’s practice encompasses
several specialist fields and accordingly Chambers is able to offer a choice of Counsel to suit both the
professional and lay client’s needs. Chambers has particular strengths in civil law including all
aspects of family and children matters, personal injury, employment law, property law and insolvency.
Hailsham Chambers (The Chambers of Michael Pooles QC),
practising at 4 Paper Buildings, is a long established set whose members practise civil
and commercial law. The main practice areas are medical law, costs,
professional negligence, personal injury, employment and disciplinary
and commercial litigation.
2 Harcourt Buildings
are now at Francis Taylor Building.
Harcourt Chambers (The Chambers of Jonathan Baker Q.C)
is based in London and Oxford. With 2 Queen's Counsel and 34 juniors, it is one of the top ten specialist family
law sets in the country, with expertise including public and private children's work, ancillary relief,
divorce, abduction and domestic violence. Civil expertise includes trusts, Chancery, property and planning.
Hardwicke Building, the
Chambers of Nigel Jones QC, is a broad based civil set located in Lincoln’s Inn. Specialist teams include:
Commercial; Education; Employment; Intellectual Property; Housing; Insurance and Reinsurance; Family;
Property; Public and administrative law, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence.
The site includes customizable CVs for all members, newsletters on Property and Injury, articles and case reports.
A digest of the Chambers and Partners 2008 writeup is available on the site where Hardwicke scores highly
and appears as a leading set in both Education and Housing.
1 Hare Court (previously 1 Mitre Court Buildings)
the chambers of Bruce Blair QC, is a leading specialist set of chambers,
all of whose members practise solely
in the field of family law. The site contains news of some recent cases.
2 Hare Court - a leading set
specialising in criminal law and prosecuting and defending at all levels.
In recent years, chambers has increasingly specialised in commercial fraud and
corruption cases and in financial services work.
3 Hare Court came here from
One Crown office Row in September 2001. The Chambers of James Guthrie QC,
Chambers' work is concentrated in International and domestic business and
commercial law, appeals to the Privy Council and common law.
Henderson Chambers at 2 Harcourt Buildings,
the Chambers of Roger Henderson QC,
is a leading set of Barristers Chambers offering representation and advisory services to clients in
a wide range of different areas of civil litigation.
Highgate Chambers is a new set based in North London
offering specialist advice and advocacy services in Civil Litigation matters. Sole practitioner
Jonathan Wragg has particular expertise in the areas of Housing and Commercial Property Litigation.
High Street Chambers, Godalming,
is a general common law set with the emphasis on complex and serious crime. Members
of chambers work throughout the country.
Hogarth Chambers
has been formed from 5 New Square and One Raymond Buildings.
The areas of practice have three main strands:
Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment and Chancery/Commercial & Insolvency.
Hollis Whiteman Chambers
is a long-established specialist criminal set.
The 52 members have expertise at all levels of seniority: 16 QCs and 3 Treasury Counsel
are matched with a strong middle order and 21 tenants of less than 15 years call.
23 tenants sit as Recorders in the Crown Court. Members defend and prosecute from the
Magistrates Court to the House of Lords and are regularly involved
in complex, high-profile and grave cases.
India Buildings Chambers,
in Liverpool, is a long established set of Chambers providing advocacy and advice
in all aspects of Criminal, Civil, and Family work. Formed over 50 years ago, they
provide a comprehensive service to Solicitors and their Clients throughout the
North-West region and North Wales.
1 Inner Temple Lane,
the Chambers of Steven Hadley, is primarily a criminal set. Individual
members also practice family law, civil litigation and tribunal work
ensuring ensuring that we can offer a wide range of expertise.
Intellectual Property and Technology Group,
based in Manchester, is the Intellectual Property and Technology Group of Kingsgate Chambers
(from 1997 to early 2002, it practised from Lancaster Buildings in Manchester).
It is the first and so far only group of specialist intellectual property and
technology counsel to be based outside London (there are annexes in Bradford and London).
The site is designed as a resource for solicitors to use and a slightly unusual menu system
is used on the site. For each of the work areas covered
(ADR, Arbitration, Chancery, Chancery Litigation, Competion Law, Copyright, Database Rights, etc),
internal links to material produced by chambers appear to the left of the main explanatory text
and extensive links to external sites and materials appear to the right.
International Family Law Chambers
practise family law exclusively and have special expertise in matters concerning international law.
There are lawyers qualified in England and Wales, Australia, the United States, Germany and Sweden.
Expertise covers divorce; child custody, access, abduction; financial claims including property,
maintenance and enforcement action; injunctions to protect against violence and asset stripping.
Iscoed Chambers, the chambers of Miss Elwen Evans QC,
based in Swansea, is a leading, successful and long established set of chambers with a large client base.
They have established specialist groups with a view to reinforcing the strength and depth of the service
including the provision of lectures and training courses and
they were the first Chambers in Wales to be awarded the Legal Service Commissions Quality Mark for the Bar.
St James Chambers is
a Chancery and commercial set of chambers, covering a broad range of civil work with complementary teams of
practitioners undertaking employment, personal injury and family work.
They represent multinationals, small businesses and private individuals, professionals, insolvency
practitioners, local authorities and public sector organisations. They are instructed by in-house
solicitors and through direct access where permitted.
Guildhall Chambers Portsmouth
9-12 Bell Yard
is a leading set of barrister chambers specialising in
Criminal Law.
All members of Chambers have experience & expertise in criminal
litigation both prosecuting and defending.