Barristers' Chambers in the UK - P to Q
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Pallant Chambers has been providing advice and advocacy
to the South's solicitors for more than 25 years. Grouped into the three practice areas of Family, Civil and Crime,
it offers a range of specialist practitioners of the highest calibre.
Efficient and approachable, Chambers' barristers appear in courts and tribunals of every level and have
been instructed in some of the more important cases in their respective fields.
Chambers' solicitors range from the largest firms and companies to the smallest high street firms
and include many of the South's Local Authorities.
Palmyra Chambers, based in warrington, is a new Set.
Their areas of practice are Commercial Law, Family Law, Media and Entertainment, Local Government & Housing,
Crime, Employment Law, Personal Injury and International Law.
All Members are Public Access qualified.
One Paper Buildings, the Chambers of Michael Hubbard QC,
is a leading specialist set of London Chambers established in the Temple for 50 years.
A highly experienced team of criminal practitioners specialise in trial advocacy undertaking all areas
of criminal work. Members routinely defend and prosecute across the South Eastern and Western Circuits.
A small but dedicated group of civil practitioners complements our criminal specialists.
2 Paper Buildings, is the chambers of Mark Love.
Founded in 1988, this is a well-established set of 38 barristers. Members specialise in a variety of work
including crime, family, immigration, landlord and tenant and others. They both prosecute and defend in
all types of criminal matters; particular fields include fraud, confiscation and serious cases.
2 Paper Buildings, incorporating
1 Essex court, is the Chambers of Desmond De Silva Q.C. (recently returned from a tour
of duty as Deputy Chief Prosecutor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone). This is one of the longest established
chambers in the Temple, with a pre-eminence in Privy Council appeals
upholding human rights and individual liberties throughout the Commonwealth
and also a history of acting in long and complicated Criminal trials.
3 Paper Buildings,
the Chambers of Michael Parroy QC, is one of the largest
and oldest sets in the country, established in London, Bournemouth, Oxford
and Winchester. There is a Personal Injury Discussion board
here run by Cyrus Katrak which is based on an
email update going out from the chambers.
4 Paper Buildings has a long history as a friendly team of specialist
barristers providing expert advice and advocacy in all areas of family law and several areas of civil law.
The reputation of chambers as a friendly approachable yet professional set is unrivalled and marks out
Chambers as exceptional amongst its peers.
A traditional approach is combined with up to date legal knowledge to provide the best service to all clients,
professional or lay.
Many of the most serious, sensitive and significant family cases in the legal calendar are undertaken by
members of 4 Paper Buildings and instructions are received from as diverse an array of clients as Government
departments to celebrities to parents seeking to prevent children from being removed into care.
5 Paper Buildings, the Chambers of Richard King,
is a highly organised set of 35 practitioners practising
civil and commercial law. Its members are actively encouraged to be
specialise early. Work is divided into six practice teams each with an
individual leader: Commercial, Property and L&T, Personal Injury, Regulatory,
Employment and Ancillary Relief. Members of chambers can join a maximum of
two of these teams.
5 Paper Buildings, the chambers of Godfrey Carey QC and
Jonathan Caplan QC, combines its established strengths in criminal and regulatory
law with an approachable, practical and responsive ethos.
Chambers has been instrumental in shaping criminal law for over 50 years. Among many notable cases,
members have acted in The Herald of Free Enterprise, Maxwell, Barings/Leeson, 'Camp Bread Basket’,
Iraqi ‘torture’ photo case and Hendy-Freegard (the ‘MI5 agent’ who kidnapped and blackmailed his victims for years).
While maintaining their leadership in general criminal work, they have also developed successful practices
in corporate criminal liability, trading standards, disciplinary proceedings, consumer credit, health and safety,
environmental law, media law and public inquiries.
Paradise Chambers,
Sheffield, has thirty-seven members including four Silks. Chambers has created specialist teams
to cover the three main areas namely, Crime, Civil and Family Law and individual members provide expertise in
many other areas of law.
Park Chambers, based in Weybridge, Surrey,
are Erich Suter’s specialist employment law chambers. As well as accepting instructions
through solicitors in the normal way, they accept Direct Public Access instructions
from companies and the public in all areas of employment law including unfair dismissal,
equal pay, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, race discrimination, transfer of
undertakings, trade union cases and redundancies.
Park Lane Chambers, headed by Stuart Brown QC,
has a long-standing reputation for excellence and specialisation in the fields of personal injury and clinical
negligence, family and chancery and commercial law. They have doubled in size in a decade.
They operate an open communications policy using the latest e-mail and voice mail technology, which
affords clients full access to members of chambers. Barristers have a reputation as being client focused
and unstuffy and have proven themselves to be strong adversaries.
37 Park Square, based in Leeds,
provides specialist service in the area of professional negligence, disciplinary tribunals,
employment, planning and commercial work in addition to the traditional common law,
crime and family specialities.
Park Court Chambers is long established as a chambers in the City of Leeds.
Its members are skilled in a wide range of legal services and are broadly divided into
three principal groups: Civil, Criminal and Family Litigation.
30 Park Place has become the
largest set of Chambers in Wales. Situated in the heart of the legal, professional, educational, business
and civic centre of Cardiff, they are an old established set, but committed to continuing development and progress.
They hold both the BarMark and QualityMark awards and work in a wide variety of legal fields.
Peel Court Chambers, based in Manchester, is a traditional set with a modern outlook which provides
high quality legal services. Chambers offers expertise in a wide variety of fields, notably crime,
clinical negligence and medical law, licensing (gaming and liquor), commercial fraud, personal injury and
professional negligence. Chambers also provide expertise in consumer credit and commercial law, landlord and
tenant, health and safety law, EC and revenue law. Languages spoken include French, German and Mandarin.
Pendragon Chambers was formed in 1995 in Swansea and covers most
areas of Family, Civil and Criminal Law. They provide a professional service but retain a friendly and
flexible approach. They publish a bi-monthly employment newsletter called Dragon’s Pen which can also be read on
the site. They also have employment factsheets on Time limits, ET compensation limits, family/sickness pay
and there is a redundancy ready reckoner. They are CPD accredited by the Law Society, ILEX and Bar Council
and run training events for example on Disability Discrimination.
Phoenix Chambers, in Gray's Inn,
was established in 1995. Members work in civil disputes, commercial and financial, construction and engineering, consumer credit
and sale of goods, crime, employment, human rights, immigration, inquests, licensing, mental health,
personal injury, professional and clinical negligence, property, landlord & tenant, trademark and copyright.
Plowden Buildings is a civil set of 30 barristers
based in Newcastle and London specialising in personal injury and employment work with some members of
chambers having niche practices in commercial, licensing and property based work. They also offer accredited
mediation services, and advice and representation in alternative dispute resolution.
Portal Chambers are based in Llandysul, Wales, and
barristers travel throughout the U.K. providing an economic and efficient service as advocates before courts and tribunals.
Areas of work include Local Government (Town and Country Planning, Access, Highways, Housing,
Trading standards, Housing Benefit and fraud) as well as Land law and Landlord and tenant.
Pump Court Chambers, the Chambers of Jane Miller Q.C. &
Oba Nsugbe Q.C. are based at three separate locations; London, Winchester and Swindon. There are at present
70 Members of Chambers including four Queen's Counsel. Members of Chambers practise predominately on the Western
Circuit and are split into 5 teams: Civil, Matrimonial, Criminal, Silks and A.D.R. The A.D.R. team has grown
over the past 3 years and Chambers can now field 13 trained mediators dealing with both Commercial and Family
mediations. Chambers also runs seminars on Advocacy Training, continuing legal education, and the training
of expert witnesses which are accredited by the Law Society ILEX and the Bar Council.
Pump Court Tax Chambers is a set of barristers specialising
in tax law. Members of Chambers advise on all aspects of UK taxation and conduct litigation at all levels.
They offer advice in relation to both commercial and personal tax issues, which can be provided in
conference or by written opinion.
1 Pump Court is a radical and progressive
set of chambers established in 1978 with a particular commitment to the legally aided client and
those facing tribunals where legal aid is not available.
Instead of a Head of Chambers there is a Management Committee
which has responsibility for the efficient running of chambers.
Chambers undertakes work nationwide and at all levels, from Magistrates' Courts, Crown
Courts, County Courts, Inquests and Tribunals, Courts of Appeal, to the House of Lords,
European Courts and Privy Council.
2 Pump Court, the Chambers of Philip Singer QC,
is a long-established and well respected set of chambers,
many of whose members have achieved judicial and other distinguished legal and political office.
Eight of the present members hold part-time judicial appointments.
There are 31 barristers, ranging in call from 1962 to 2000.
The criminal and family groups are the largest, but all areas of common law work are covered.
4 Pump Court,
the chambers of Bruce Mauleverer QC, offers advice and advocacy across a broad range of
professional negligence, construction, commercial and common law.
5 Pump Court is an established common law set consisting of
three specialist practice groups: civil, family and crime.
6 Pump Court - the chambers
of Stephen Hockman QC, based in London and Maidstone,
has specialist groups in Criminal Law,
Civil & Commercial Law, Public, Planning & Environmental Law and Family Law.
A particular feature of the site is a Criminal Law Briefing, with reports of recent cases.
Quadrant Chambers (formerly 4 Essex Court) is a leading set of
barristers’ chambers specialising in commercial litigation. They provide advocacy services and advice in relation
to court proceedings, inquiries, arbitration and mediation in the United Kingdom and abroad. They also act as arbitrators,
mediators, expert witnesses and inquiry chairs.
They are a leading maritime and aviation set, but their practice encompasses the whole spectrum of international
and commercial disputes including international trade and transport, commodities, banking, insurance and
reinsurance, energy, construction, professional negligence, information technology, media, sport,
commercial agreements, agency, European law, disaster litigation and judicial review.
Queen Elizabeth Buildings (QEB), the chambers of
Lucy Stone QC, is a leading set of Family Law chambers, particularly
specialising in high profile financial cases and those with an
international element. They have been established for over one hundred years
and several former members of chambers are currently High Court Judges. This website is currently unavailable.
Queens Chambers on the Northern Circuit,
the set of Mr.Timothy Ryder is an established general common law, commercial,
family and criminal set practicing from chambers in central Manchester and
Preston. Members provide advice and advocacy accross these fields of law,
with particular stength in civil actions against the police.
Queen's Gate Chambers, the Chambers of
Prue Van der Craats, is based in Chelsea and Fulham. It is a new chambers and aims to become the leading
set taking instructions in banking, financial services, FSA, compliance and civil fraud.
They are also linked with an annex in Greece and their work will also include shipping, transport,
competition law, EU law, Revenue and customs confiscation and restraint, sales of goods, OFT and imports.
Note from Delia - this is the only chambers I know of which is using the EU domain name.
Queen Square Chambers, in Bristol, is a leading Western Circuit set
of barristers’ chambers. Members are committed to providing the highest standards of advice and representation
to both professional and lay clients whilst maintaining the approachability that has become their hallmark.
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