One of the leading sets of barristers’ chambers in England, we combine excellence in advocacy and advisory work with a modern, client-focussed service.
“Crown Office Chambers is distinguished by the quality of its members. From its outstanding silks down to its leading juniors, excellence runs through the set.”
One of the leading sets of barristers’ chambers in England, we combine excellence in advocacy and advisory work with a modern, client-focussed service.
“Crown Office Chambers is distinguished by the quality of its members. From its outstanding silks down to its leading juniors, excellence runs through the set.”
With over 100 barristers working in specialist areas, our multi-discipline chambers has strong expertise in commercial and general insurance.
The ‘outstanding’ clerks are ‘commercial and willing to consider cases on innovative fee structures – not something seen at some of the more traditional sets’.
As a strong commercial set, our dedicated staff provide extensive support to help maintain Crown Office as a leading chambers.
News | 30th Oct 2018
The members and staff at Crown Office Chambers are delighted to congratulate Sandesh Singh for winning Professional Discipline Junior of the year at the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards, held on 25th October 2018 at the Park Lane Hilton. For further details on the awards, please click here.
News | 30th Oct 2018
Crown Office Chambers is delighted with this year’s Legal 500 rankings. We are very pleased to have 8 new entries and 15 improved rankings, and would like to say a big thank you to all our clients for their continued support. We have 16 leading Silks and 37 leading Junior barristers, many of whom are ranked in the following practice areas; Clinical […]
Articles | 24th Oct 2018
The Supreme Court has finally delivered its judgment in the appeal by Michael Darnley against the dismissal of his claim for negligence against the Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2018] UKSC 50. Facts Mr Darnley suffered a head injury in an assault. He attended the Trust’s Mayday Hospital. He told the Receptionist that he had […]
News | 24th Oct 2018
The Defendant has been given permission to appeal by Hamblen LJ on all issues of breach of duty and medical causation in this seminal noise exposure case in which it is alleged that a viola player sustained catastrophic acoustic injury during a rehearsal of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. The case raises important issues as to the […]
News | 23rd Oct 2018
Michael Kent QC (with Nicholas Fewtrell) appeared on the instructions of Keogh’s for the successful appellants in Catholic Welfare Society & ors v CD in which judgment was handed down by today ([2018] EWCA Civ 2342). In the context of group litigation alleging historic physical and sexual abuse the Court of Appeal gave important further […]
News | 23rd Oct 2018
On Friday 19th October 2018 Dominic Kay QC, instructed by Robert Starr and Rachel Turnbull of Walker Morris, secured a unanimous not guilty verdict for Arla Foods Limited. The verdict followed a two-week trial at Reading Crown Court and related to an accident alleged to have occured in the early hours of 15th December 2015 […]
News | 5th Oct 2018
Crown Office Chambers is pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted, for the second year running, in the “Barristers’ Chambers of the Year” category for The Eclipse Proclaim Personal Injury Awards 2018.
News | 5th Oct 2018
The Hon Mr Justice Butcher, sitting in the Commercial Court, has given welcome clarification of the appropriate test for causation in insurance brokers’ negligence cases in the recent decision of Dalamd v Butterworth Spengler [2018] EWHC 2558 (Comm). Butcher J has confirmed that a Court should decide on the balance of probabilities the causation issue […]
News | 5th Oct 2018
In Murphy v Barnsley MBC, the claimant alleged that Barnsley MBC had failed to maintain adequately a disused canal, which had become a designated local wildlife site, with the result that water had overtopped the canal causing extensive flooding of large parts of her land. She claimed that she had suffered financial losses as a […]
News | 3rd Oct 2018
Crown Office Chambers is delighted to welcome Michael Harper as the new tenant following successful completion of his pupillage.