This page was last updated on June 25th.
* indicates the sites which I think have the most extensive material.
Arden Chambers
practise in four areas - Housing, Local Government, Property & Planning law.
They have been voted the no 1 housing set for the last two years by Chambers &
Partners UK Guide to the Legal Profession. They
also have a number of barristers who undertake areas of public law.
There are a series of "EFlashes" on the site, which are immediate responses to recent
decision or legal developments. These can be sent direct to peoples' mailboxes or viewed on site.
2 Bedford Row,
the chambers of William Clegg QC, and previously of 3 Hare Court, is
a specialist set of criminal law barristers, described in the Chambers Directory
as "a leading set of specialist criminal practitioners at the forefront of
defence and prosecution work in the South east and
throughout the country as well as abroad". There are articles and case
notes posted on the site (although not very up to date).
One Brick Court is a long established
specialist barristers chambers based in the Temple, London.
They are recognised as leaders in the fields of defamation, privacy and the law as it affects
freedom of expression and the publication of false, damaging and intrusive information.
There is a Media Law Update on the site, with reports of the latest cases and also
articles written by members of chambers.
4 Brick Court has an established reputation in Family Law and Immigration,
Crime, Common Law, Employment and Licensing.
There are a large number of articles on family law on the site
and a monthly "update" on family law with summaries of recent cases, articles etc.
One of the barristers, Jacqui Gilliatt has set up a blog on UK family law called
Bloody relations
("Where there's a relative there's a bloody good argument to be had").
The site is also associated with a wiki called
familylawfaqs which is still in its early stages and calling for
others to contribute their knowledge as well as the original authors.
1 Chancery Lane, the Chambers of Edward Faulks QC,
is a leading civil common law set. Its practice areas are professional negligence, clinical negligence,
personal injury, travel and property, contract and commercial, public and administrative and property.
Members specialise in a number of fields including novel duty of care claims against public authorities,
education negligence, claims involving police, human rights, conflicts of law, consumer law, health & safety,
discrimination, social welfare law, undue influence claims and judicial review. There are presently 37
members of Chambers – 4 Queens Counsel and 33 juniors – several of whom also sit as Recorders and Arbitrators.
Members of chambers are also qualified to act as Mediators. Articles, news items and briefings can be accessed
on the 1 Chancery Lane website.
**One Crown Office Row, the Chambers of Philip Havers QC,
is a long established leading civil set with particular strengths in clinical negligence (for which
it is widely recognised as the leading set), other professional negligence, public, administrative
and Human Rights Act law, judicial review, environmental law, personal injury, professional disciplinary,
sports law, immigration and VAT.
They provide a Human Rights Update on their site which is a database of 800 reports and commentaries
on human rights dating back to 1998 with a weekly update co-ordinated by Chambers Academic Rosalind English.
The cases are taken from domestic courts and the Strasbourg court involving human rights points that
demonstrate the impact of the European Convention on domestic law and also explores the practical
impact of these cases for practitioners. This resource is made available free for all to use
(you have to register on site but it is not too intrusive). There is a good search engine and
it is possible to sign up for a weekly update by email. For less experienced users, it includes a
practical guide to the Convention and the Act; what are "Incorporated Rights", "Procedures and Remedies" and so on.
Crown Office Chambers
is the largest civil common law set of chambers in London, with nearly 80 members.
Areas of specialisation include construction and commercial work,
insurance and reinsurance, contract, professional negligence, personal injury, health and safety, product liability
and clinical negligence.
There is a regular news section, a serious of regularly updated articles, and a section giving details
of the seminars provided.
Devereux Chambers,
a thriving and well-established set of 38 barristers,
has a wide client base ranging from public companies, underwriters and brokers to
local authorities, government departments, trades unions and individual litigants.
There is a section of articles and case reports, particularly
where members of chambers have been involved.
*Doughty Street Chambers web site offers
information on Human Rights topics, including articles and comment on the act,
European Convention material, international material, a news section,
a good set of Human Rights links and information on the
HRA Research Project (HRARP) which is an independent research
initiative funded to monitor and evaluate the Human Rights Act 1998
and the enjoyment of human rights in the UK. They also offer an email updating service.
5 Essex Court the Chambers of Simon Freeland
QC, is recognized by the main legal directories as a leading set in police law and has a proud record of having
been involved in nearly all of the police law landmark cases both in the domestic and the European courts.
Members of Chambers haves also been involved in such high profile Public Inquiries as the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry,
the Marchioness Inquiry, the Hutton Inquiry, the Bichard Inquiry and the Morris Inquiry.
Founded as a common law set in 1954 by the late Mr Justice Michael Eastham, 5 Essex Court became a civil set in
October 2004. It specializes in police law, public law, employment and personal injury.
There are case notes on the site from the cases in which members have acted (although not very up to date).
Farrars Building, the Chambers of Patrick Harrington QC,
is a long established set of common law chambers working predominantly in the broad categorisation 'General Common Law'.
Chambers is not formally divided into practice groups, but there are informal meetings of those practising in
Personal Injury/Professional Negligence and Employment.
There is a free update on employment topics which goes out to 2,000 subscribers every month and another on
personal injury.
Fountain Court Chambers,
the chambers of Anthony Boswood QC, is a long established and
substantial set of commercial barristers' chambers,
based in the Temple, London. There are 51 members of which 15 are silks. The site
includes updates to a book published by Sweet
and Maxwell called Commercial Court Procedure.
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 and another on "Bundles -
good practice guide". (Further articles have not however appeared).
*Garden Court Chambers have created a bank of specialist
legal resources 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.
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.
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.
*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, with full transcripts
in some cases. There are also articles and comprehensive links to other tax links worldwide.
Hardwicke Building, the
Chambers of Nigel Jones QC, is a broad based civil set located in Lincoln’s Inn.
The site includes customizable CVs for all members, newsletters on Property and Injury, articles and case reports.
There are also several online "calculators" including Redundancy, Rents Arrears/Mesne Profits and a
simple interest calculator between specified dates.
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 offers case reports and lectures in family law and a
number of data sections and "calculators" for tax, benefits and currency conversion.
There is a good set of links to family law sites.
Keating Chambers, at 15 Essex Street,
was founded in 1934 and is one of the country's leading specialist Barristers Chambers in construction
and engineering related law. Members of Chambers are frequently involved in every aspect of
dispute resolution, in all capacities, in litigation, arbitration, adjudication and alternative
dispute resolution. There are regular case law review updates placed on the site prepared by the Professional
Support Director, Professor Anthony Lavers.
*11 Kings Bench Walk,
jointly headed by Eldred Tabachnik QC and James
Goudie QC, was founded in 1981. Members specialise in employment law, public and administrative law
and commercial law. The site has a "newsy" format and offers topical case notes, seminar papers and other
articles written by members of Chambers in the areas of employment law,
public law and European and human rights law. These are kept well up to date.
Viewers can register on the site for a newsletter containing articles on cases of particular interest.
Maitland Chambers
has been formed from 13 Old Square and 7 Stone Buildings. Both chambers
were long-established sets practising commercial chancery law and considered
to be leaders in their field. There are articles and case reports on the site.
The Murray Stable is one of the largest and the most
innovative of the eleven stables of advocates forming Faculty Services Limited, the service company
of the Scottish bar. It was formed in 1991 and now has 11 QCs and 40 junior counsel.
Work areas include Commercial Law, Public Administrative Law, Employment Law,
Planning & Construction Law, Reparation and professional negligence and Family Law. There are
interesting sections on the site on how to instruct Scottish counsel for different people: a Scottish solicitor,
a lawyer outside Scotland, a member of a Direct Access Group and a non-solicitor. There is an
extensive series of articles on the site which are covered by a Creative Commons Licence, meaning
broadly that the material can be quoted for non commercial purposes without permission or fee.
New Square Chambers,
the chambers of Charles Purle QC, is the Chambers
formed from the merger of 1 New Square and 12 New Square. The new set is
now one of the largest in Lincoln's Inn, with silks and junior counsel
covering the full range of chancery and commercial practice at every level
of seniority. The site offers a large number of reports of cases where the members have been
involved (not at present?), updates to Sweet & Maxwell's "Lewin on Trusts", updates to Sweet &
Maxwell's "Minority Shareholders' Rights" and a free day calculator and
interest calculator and rent/mesne profits calculator to help with interest
calculations, procedural timetables and rent arrears calculations.
There is also a perpetual calendar (which provides a calendar for any year
which the user may choose) and a term date calculator (which provides
the dates of the legal terms in England and Wales for any year).
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 blog by Cyrus Katrak
here with news and views on personal injury cases
and legal developments.
Old Square Chambers -
specialises in employment law, personal injury and medical negligence, environmental law
and product liability. There are case reports and articles available in these areas.
11 Old Square is
a Chancery/Commercial set based in Lincoln's Inn. The set has a long and illustrious history
but a very modern web site. There is particular expertise in Banking and Financial,
Business, Charities and Associations, Company and Insolvency, Pensions, Private Client,
Professional Negligence and Property. There are articles on the site.
*5RB (5 Raymond Buildings) is a leading set of barristers specialising
in all areas of media and entertainment law, defamation and freedom of expression.
Most of the leading cases in recent times have
involved members of Chambers. In addition individual members of chambers
have recognised specialisations in breach of confidence, intellectual
property & copyright, data protection, restraint of trade, disputes in sport
& pop music, human rights and multimedia, broadcasting & telecommunications law.
There are over 300 case reports on the site covering
Media and Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection, Freedom of Information, Sports Law,
Intellectual Property and other areas. The case reports include very recent ones and in many cases,
copies of the judgments are appended.
You can also register on the site for email briefings with monthly round-ups
of key issues and new cases covered on the site.
*3-4 South Square, Gray's Inn
is a well-known set specialising in Commercial and Business law, with a particular emphasis
on Insolvency and Banking.
The site offers a monthly newsletter of case summaries, news
and articles relating to commercial law developments called "3/4 Digest"
in pdf format which can be downloaded from the site. Note the disclaimers on this site;
not many sites do this.
*Thomas More Chambers, based in Lincoln's Inn Fields, is a
substantial set of 27 tenants, supported by an energetic clerking team.
There are six main areas of practice: Crime, Family, Employment, Personal Injury, Property and
Public Law. There are newsletters available in Employment Law, Property Law and Public Law and an archive of
all these maintained on the site.
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