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Andrew Rigney KC
Year of Call: 1992

Andrew Rigney KC is joint Head of Chambers Andrew specialises in high value, complex litigation and international arbitration in the fields of construction, energy, insurance and reinsurance,...

Alexander Antelme KC
Year of Call: 1993

Alexander Antelme KC is joint Head of Chambers. He specialises in the fields of product liability, clinical negligence, property damage, insurance and personal injury. His cases are of the highest...

Roger ter Haar KC
Year of Call: 1974

Roger’s practice as an international arbitrator covers Construction, Engineering, Insurance, Re-insurance, Energy, Shipbuilding and Professional Negligence. In June 2020 he decided to limit the...

Andrew Bartlett KC
Year of Call: 1974

Andrew Bartlett KC now practises principally as an international arbitrator. His experience extends to many different kinds of insurance and reinsurance, energy projects, construction and...

Michael Kent KC
Year of Call: 1975

Michael Kent KC has an extensive practice in a range of common law fields including personal injuries and disease work; liability insurance; product liability; nuisance and property disputes involving...

Margaret Bickford-Smith KC
Year of Call: 1973

Practice Overview Margaret took silk in 2003 having developed a broad practice encompassing high-value and complex negligence cases as well as construction, commercial and environmental enforcement...

Michael Curtis KC
Year of Call: 1982

Michael Curtis KC specialises in commercial, construction & engineering, insurance, property damage, professional negligence and product liability. He is General Editor and one of the co-authors...

Christopher Kennedy KC
Year of Call: 1989

Christopher Kennedy KC specialises in a broad range of personal injury litigation, including all types of employer's liability, public liability, serious road traffic accidents and industrial disease...

David Platt KC
Year of Call: 1987

David Platt KC specialises in occupational disease, personal injury, insurance, health and safety, sports, abuse and inquest work. He also specialises in group litigation.  He undertakes most forms...

John Cooper KC
Year of Call: 1985

John Cooper KC specialises in the fields of Safety and Environmental Regulatory work. He has appeared as an expert in this area in commercial litigation in the USA and has been involved in many of the...

Ben Quiney KC
Year of Call: 1998

Recommendations In the recent editions of Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 Ben is identified as a Leading KC in his core areas of work, such as Insurance, Property Damage, Construction and...

James Ageros KC
Year of Call: 1990

James Ageros KC practises exclusively in health & safety and environmental law. For many years he has been recognised as one of the most accomplished and versatile barristers in the field. When a...

Andrew Smith KC
Year of Call: 1988

Andrew Smith KC has over 30 years of experience of litigation in courts at all levels. He has practised at the Scottish Bar (call 1988, silk 2002) and since 2006 at the English Bar. He took silk in...

Kim Franklin KC
Year of Call: 1984

Chartered Arbitrator, Construction Adjudicator and DAB Kim Franklin KC is a recognised specialist in the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors.  She acts as a full-time arbitrator,...

James Maxwell-Scott KC
Year of Call: 1995

James is a specialist in public inquiries, inquests and criminal regulatory law. He is Vice Chair of the Health and Safety Lawyers Association. He has been Leading Counsel representing the Royal...

Dominic Kay KC
Year of Call: 1997

Dominic Kay KC is a specialist regulatory law practitioner and is one of a very small number of King’s Counsel to be listed by the legal directories as a leading individual in each of his three...

Patrick Blakesley KC
Year of Call: 1993

Patrick Blakesley KC specialises in catastrophic personal injury and fatal accident claims; and related actions: insurance coverage and indemnity issues; other contractual issues; conflicts of laws;...

Simon Antrobus KC
Year of Call: 1995

Simon has over 25 years’ of experience as one of the leading barristers in this field of criminal regulatory law. Together with John Cooper KC, he set up the criminal regulatory team within Crown...

Isabel Hitching KC
Year of Call: 1992

Isabel Hitching is a commercial silk with a long-established expertise in the issues arising out of large-scale, complex construction and technology projects.  With expertise not only in the...

Daniel Shapiro KC
Year of Call: 1999

Daniel Shapiro KC is recognised as “ferociously bright” with “beguiling advocacy skills”. He has extensive trial and appellate advocacy experience in a wide range of commercial litigation,...

Andrew Davis KC
Year of Call: 1996

Andrew specialises in personal injury (particularly claims which are high value / complex), product liability, commercial and IT, insurance and property damage. His approach combines getting firmly to...

Farrah Mauladad KC
Year of Call: 1999

Farrah Mauladad KC specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury, healthcare regulatory law and product liability matters. She has extensive experience in Court and is often instructed in cases...

Crispin Winser KC
Year of Call: 2003

Crispin Winser KC specialises in construction, engineering, energy, insurance, professional liability and general commercial litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution both in the UK and...

Claire Toogood KC
Year of Call: 1995

Claire Toogood specialises in clinical negligence and product liability. Claire combines a friendly and approachable manner with a sharp eye for detail and a comprehensive understanding of her...

Richard Whitehall KC
Year of Call: 1998

Personal Injury Richard specialises in complex and high-value personal injury cases. He has a very busy practice, representing Claimants and Defendants. He has been instructed for many years on...

Mark Balysz KC
Year of Call: 1995

Mark Balysz KC has been for many years one of the leading and most effective advocates in defending high profile cases of corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter, as well as complex...

Anna Laney KC
Year of Call: 1998

Anna Laney’s practice focusses on construction related matters, whether they be traditional employers’/contractors’ contractual claims, professional negligence disputes or insurance issues. ...

Martyn Berkin
Year of Call: 1966

Martyn Berkin specialises in commercial contracts, recovery of assets including freezing orders, constructive and resulting trusts, enforcement of foreign judgments. His practice is widespread in...

John Stevenson
Year of Call: 1975

John Stevenson main areas of practice are clinical negligence, insurance and professional negligence. Other significant areas of work are arbitration, commercial law, construction and personal...

John Greenbourne
Year of Call: 1978

John Greenbourne’s main areas of practice are professional negligence (chiefly concerned with insurance services, legal advice, property valuation and construction, education and clinical...

Julian Field
Year of Call: 1980

Julian Field is a senior junior with a commercial practice encompassing property damage, insurance, product liability, contract and tort, commercial fraud and professional negligence. He began his...

Charlotte Jones
Year of Call: 1982

Charlotte Jones' practice has for a number of years been almost exclusively in clinical negligence work. She is instructed on a regular basis on behalf of a large number of Claimants and Defendant...

A. John Williams
Year of Call: 1983

John specialises in Personal Injury and Industrial Disease claims together with Health & Safety at Work cases. John is an experienced Junior who works closely with others in the litigation team...

Steven Coles
Year of Call: 1983

Steven Coles is regularly instructed in a wide range of insurance-related cases, often policy coverage disputes, also defence of third party claims, and insurers’ subrogated recovery claims –...

James Medd
Year of Call: 1985

James Medd's practice focuses on claims relating to insurance, property damage, product liability and construction. He is consistently ranked in the major legal directories as a leading junior in...

Shaun Ferris
Year of Call: 1985

Shaun Ferris specialises in personal injury and product liability cases. His personal injury practice includes all types of catastrophic injury claims and the full spectrum of chronic pain cases. He...

Catherine Foster
Year of Call: 1986

Catherine practices in the areas of general personal injury, disease litigation, occupational stress, child sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, modern slavery, professional negligence, product...

Peter Morton
Year of Call: 1988

Though he has acted for both Claimants and Defendant in the past, Peter Morton’s practice is now entirely for Defendants and consists of industrial disease litigation, catastrophic injury cases,...

Dermot Woolgar
Year of Call: 1988

Dermot Woolgar has an extensive and diverse civil and commercial practice, with particular expertise in the fields of international commercial arbitration, commercial law, construction and...

Erica Power
Year of Call: 1990

Erica Power specialises in the fields of product liability, clinical negligence and personal injury. She has extensive experience of acting for both Claimants and Defendants and is also experienced...

Jason Evans-Tovey
Year of Call: 1990

Jason is a litigator whose attention to detail, strong legal, commercial and strategic advice as well as extensive trial and appellate advocacy experience have won him many followers in several fields...

Malcolm Galloway
Year of Call: 1992

Malcolm Galloway, described by the directories as ‘a great jury advocate, who is very, very personable and extremely sharp’ is an accomplished jury advocate practicing in regulatory law. He is...

Robert Stokell
Year of Call: 1995

Robert Stokell specialises in substantial construction and engineering disputes, insurance-related advice and litigation, product liability, professional negligence and property damage. He is well...

Suzanne Chalmers
Year of Call: 1995

Suzanne Chalmers specialises in insurance, professional negligence, property damage and personal injury as well as dealing with general commercial disputes. Her strength lies in her ability to...

Jamie Clarke
Year of Call: 1995

Jamie Clarke has more than 25 years’ experience in his core practice areas of catastrophic / utmost severity personal injury litigation, industrial disease (including asbestos, NIHL, HAVS, workplace...

Ivor Collett
Year of Call: 1995

Ivor’s practice covers commercial, professional liability and insurance disputes, with a particular focus on construction professionals and lawyers.  He is heavily involved in cases of impostor...

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Edward Broome
Year of Call: 1996

Edward Broome has a thriving practice encompassing the fields of multi-track personal injury litigation, occupational/industrial disease and sports law. His personal injury practice encompasses all...

Paul Higgins
Year of Call: 1996

Paul Higgins specialises in the fields of Insurance and Reinsurance, Personal Injury, Civil Fraud, Property Damage and Costs. He is recognised as an advocate possessing “an extremely sharp...

Susan Lindsey
Year of Call: 1997

Susan's practice is building and engineering related dispute resolution. She no longer undertakes contentious work as party representative. As counsel Susan gained experience of a wide spectrum of...

Victoria Woodbridge
Year of Call: 1998

Victoria Woodbridge specialises in personal injury and clinical negligence claims, but also receives instructions in commercial and insurance disputes and cases of professional negligence...

Jack Ferro
Year of Call: 1998

Jack Ferro has practised at Crown Office Chambers since 1999, focusing on personal injury, clinical negligence, product liability and industrial disease. He has developed special expertise and...

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Julian Horne
Year of Call: 1998

Julian Horne is experienced in a wide range of civil litigation with a particular emphasis on interlocutory and trial advocacy. His practice encompasses personal injury including product liability,...

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Mark Armitage
Year of Call: 1999

Mark Armitage specialises in personal injury, industrial disease and inquest work. His industrial disease practice focuses on asbestos litigation; asthma claims; cancer; COSHH claims; dermatitis;...

Alexander Macpherson
Year of Call: 2000

Alexander Macpherson specialises in a number of areas of common law and commercial litigation. Frequently his cases have an insurance angle, and he is regularly instructed by major national...

Charles Pimlott
Year of Call: 2001

Charles Pimlott specialises in construction and energy disputes, professional negligence and commercial litigation. Charles is recognised by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 2023...

Michele De Gregorio
Year of Call: 2003

Michele De Gregorio has a broad commercial and common law practice, with many of his cases arising out of insurance related disputes, in the fields of construction and engineering, professional...

Harry Vann
Year of Call: 2003

Harry joined Chambers in 2004 after successful completion of his pupillage.  After initially practising in Personal Injury, he joined the Criminal Regulatory and Environmental team in 2008 and has...

Rosanna Hellebronth
Year of Call: 2004

Rosanna joined Chambers on successful completion of her pupillage in 2005 and specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, industrial disease and motor insurance fraud. In addition to...

Sandesh Singh
Year of Call: 2004

Sandesh Singh specialises in criminal regulatory law, inquests and professional disciplinary law. He is known for his thorough preparation, attention to detail and incisive advocacy. He is listed as a...

Peter Houghton
Year of Call: 2005

Peter is an experienced junior with a thriving practice focussing on group litigation, personal injury claims, industrial disease matters and associated areas of work. He has appeared in several...

Julia Kendrick
Year of Call: 2005

Julia Kendrick specialises in criminal regulatory law, with particular expertise in health and safety, inquests, fire safety, consumer law, environmental law, food safety and road traffic offences....

Elizabeth Boon
Year of Call: 2006

Recommendations In the recent editions of Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 Elizabeth is recognised in her core areas of work, such as Property Damage and Professional Negligence. She is...

Richard Sage
Year of Call: 2006

Richard Sage’s practice is in the fields of construction, professional negligence, insurance, product liability, property damage and general commercial litigation / arbitration. Richard has...

David Myhill
Year of Call: 2006

David has a specialist practice focussing on disputes in the fields of Product Liability, Insurance, Professional (including Clinical) Negligence and Property Damage. Whilst David is accomplished...

Mike Atkins
Year of Call: 2006

Mike Atkins specialises exclusively in the field of criminal regulatory law, with particular expertise in Health & Safety, Inquests, Fire Safety, Food Safety, Product Safety, Consumer Law, and...

Daniel Shaw
Year of Call: 2007

Daniel was called to the Bar 16 years ago and has specialised in construction and engineering disputes for the last 13 years. He has experience of litigation, arbitration, adjudication, and mediation....

Nadia Whittaker
Year of Call: 2007

Nadia is an established clinical negligence and personal injury practitioner, ranked by The Legal 500 as Leading Junior, in clinical negligence, at the London Bar.   She acts in catastrophic cases...

Siobhan Lambertsen
Year of Call: 2007

Siobhan Lambertsen practices in the areas of personal injury, industrial disease and PI fraud. She acts predominantly for Defendants and iis a robust advocate with a tough cross-examination style....

Helen Pagett
Year of Call: 2008

Helen Pagett specialises in personal injury, industrial disease, clinical negligence and inquests. She regularly appears in the County Court and High Court in both fast-track and multi-track matters,...

Harry Lambert
Year of Call: 2008

Harry Lambert practices in the areas of product liability, medical law, privacy, human rights and emerging tech. He is the Founder and Head of the Institute of Neurotechnology & Law, and also sits...

Gemma Witherington
Year of Call: 2008

For a number of years, Gemma has been recommended as a leading junior by Legal 500. She specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, insurance fraud, professional negligence, costs and...

Jack Macaulay
Year of Call: 2009

Jack practices in the core areas of Chamber’s work, with particular focus on personal injury, clinical negligence, professional negligence, and property damage. He is on the Attorney General’s B...

Rory Holmes
Year of Call: 2009

Rory has specialised in Personal Injury and associated areas of work over the past 15 years. He is a senior Junior with a caseload which overlaps a number of Chambers’ specialisms. He is...

James Sharpe
Year of Call: 2009

James' practice spans a broad range of commercial disputes with particular focus on insurance and reinsurance, professional liability and commercial chancery work. A confident advocate and a team...

Caroline McColgan
Year of Call: 2010

Caroline McColgan joined chambers in October 2011 following successful completion of her pupillage. Since then, she has developed a practice which is strongly focused on insurance, professional...

Carlo Taczalski
Year of Call: 2010

Carlo specialises in commercial, construction, insurance, and professional negligence matters. He has been recommended in the Legal 500 as a leading individual in a number of his core practice areas...

Simon O’Dwyer
Year of Call: 2010

Simon is a specialist personal injury barrister who practises exclusively in multi-track personal injury work acting for both claimants and defendants; undertaking the full spectrum of personal injury...

Athena Markides
Year of Call: 2011

Athena Markides practises in all of Chambers’ core areas of work and has particular expertise in insurance, commercial litigation, construction and property damage. She has a particular interest in...

Patrick Maxwell
Year of Call: 2011

Patrick specialises in construction, professional indemnity, insurance, and commercial disputes. He appears frequently in the High Court and has also appeared before the Court of Appeal. Patrick often...

Lucy Wright
Year of Call: 2011

Lucy Wright specialises in criminal regulatory law with a focus on health and safety, inquests and inquiries. Lucy has a reputation as an impressive trial advocate, adept with legal argument and...

Nicola Atkins
Year of Call: 2012

Nicola specialises in professional liability, construction and insurance disputes, with a particular interest in claims involving construction professionals and both civil and regulatory proceedings...

Jack Murphy
Year of Call: 2013

Jack has a specialist criminal regulatory law, inquests, and personal injury practice. His expertise is recognised by rankings in the major legal directories, and he was appointed to the Attorney...

Adam Taylor
Year of Call: 2014

Adam Taylor specialises in sport and international arbitration, professional negligence, property damage, personal injury, insurance fraud, and inquests. Adam first practised at Crown Office...

Katie Sage
Year of Call: 2014

Katie is an established criminal regulatory, inquests and inquiries practitioner and is ranked as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners in these areas. She has experience acting in criminal...

Sahana Jayakumar
Year of Call: 2014

Sahana Jayakumar joined Crown Office Chambers in 2021 and has broad practice encompassing construction disputes, corporate and personal insolvency, property damage and commercial litigation and...

Katie Ayres
Year of Call: 2014

Katie Ayres practices in the areas of local authority liability, abuse law, clinical and professional negligence, insurance, product liability and property damage. She is recognised as a Rising Star...

Maurice Holmes
Year of Call: 2015

Maurice has a broad practice encompassing the majority of Chambers’ core specialisms, principally with a commercial focus. He has substantial advocacy experience as sole counsel before a variety of...

Juliet Stevens
Year of Call: 2016

Juliet Stevens is a Leading Junior with extensive trial experience. She has a broad practice with a particular interest in personal injury, clinical negligence, product liability, professional...

Michael Harper
Year of Call: 2016

Michael’s practice centres on professional negligence, insurance, property damage, product liability, commercial disputes and related areas. Michael is ranked by Legal 500 as a Rising Star for...

Joshua Brown
Year of Call: 2017

Josh’s practice covers the range of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular emphasis on commercial disputes, construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage. As well as...

Andrew Brown
Year of Call: 2017

Andrew has a broad commercial practice spanning construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage litigation. He has noted expertise in construction and engineering disputes and...

Meredith Daniel
Year of Call: 2017

Meredith has a broad practice with a particular interest in personal injury, clinical negligence, inquests and inquiries, and health and safety. In her civil practice Meredith regularly appears in...

Frederick Simpson
Year of Call: 2018

Frederick is an in-demand junior practising primarily in construction, insurance, professional liability, product liability and property damage. He is ranked as a leading junior in professional...

Toby Chandler
Year of Call: 2019

Toby Chandler accepts instructions in all aspects of chambers’ commercial and construction work. He is regularly involved, both led and unled, on substantial litigation in the Commercial Court and...

Mariusz Rumun
Year of Call: 2019

Mariusz Rumun practises across Chambers' core areas, with a focus on insurance, commercial disputes, professional liability, property damage, product liability, and construction. Mariusz is...

Henk Soede
Year of Call: 2019

Henk maintains a broad practice across Chambers’ areas of work, with a particular focus on construction, professional liability, property damage, personal injury (particularly international claims...

Hamish Fraser
Year of Call: 2021

Hamish has developed a successful practice across Chambers’ core areas, particularly in commercial disputes, insurance, professional negligence, inquests and inquiries, property damage, and product...

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Annie Mackley
Year of Call: 2021

Annie Mackley accepts instructions across all Chambers’ core areas, with a particular interest in clinical negligence, personal injury, professional negligence and inquests and inquiries. She joined...

Benedict Morillo
Year of Call: 2021

Benedict has a broad commercial practice. He has specialist expertise in insurance, construction, professional liability, product liability, and property damage matters, and he particularly welcomes...

Alethea Redfern
Year of Call: 2021

Alethea Redfern is developing a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas, with an emphasis on insurance and reinsurance, construction, professional negligence, property damage, product...

Sophie Ashford
Year of Call: 2021

Sophie Ashford is developing a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas, with an emphasis on commercial disputes, property damage, insurance, inquests and inquiries, professional...

Bradley John-Davis
Year of Call: 2022

Bradley accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular interest in insurance and reinsurance, construction, commercial matters, professional negligence,...

William Lacey
Year of Call: 2022

William Lacey accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with an emphasis on insurance & reinsurance, professional liability, construction & engineering, property damage,...

Liana Turner
Year of Call: 2021

Liana Turner accepts instructions across Chambers' core areas of practice, with an emphasis on insurance & reinsurance, professional negligence, product liability, property damage, construction...

Colleen Cumbers
Year of Call: 2023

Colleen Cumbers joined Chambers in October 2024 following successful completion of her pupillage. She accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular interest...

Susanne Tanner KC (Scot)
Year of Call: 2000 (Scot); 2019 (E&W)

Susanne is an experienced Scottish silk with a wide practice encompassing civil and criminal work. She is a highly skilled litigator both at first instance and in appellate matters. She called to the...

Donny Surtani
Year of Call: 2020

Donny Surtani specialises in commercial and financial disputes, with a focus on international arbitration.  Prior to being called to the Bar, he spent 15 years at Herbert Smith Freehills, where he...

Sir Antony Edwards-Stuart
Year of Call: 1976

Sir Antony Edwards-Stuart is currently appointed as either chairman or co-arbitrator in several international arbitrations. As a QC, he acted as leading counsel in several very substantial...

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Sir Michael Wright
Year of Call: 1958

During his long and eminent practice at the Bar he specialised in major personal injury, professional and clinical negligence actions and insurance cases. After completing his pupillage with Hugh...

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Alan Limbury
Year of Call: 1964

Alan has been mediating since 1986 part time and since 1996 full time, with wide experience as sole mediator in over 1,500 commercial and intellectual property disputes of all kinds in Australia, New...

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Ian Swan
Year of Call: 1985

Ian practised from 2 Crown Office Row and later Crown Office Chambers for 18 years, specialising in the areas of insurance & reinsurance, professional indemnity, construction and general...

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Ray Ng
Year of Call: 1987

During his 20 years at the Bar, Ray's practice covered a wide range of common and commercial law, including aviation, banking, employment, insolvency, insurance, professional negligence and personal...

Thayananthan Baskaran
Year of Call: 2000

Thaya’s primary area of practice is construction law. He drafts various building and engineering contracts, advises on disputes arising from such contracts and appears as counsel to resolve these...

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Nicholas Tse
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An Associate Member of Crown Office Chambers, Nicholas Tse is Head of International Arbitration and co-chair of the International Dispute Resolution team at Alem and Associates. From 1 November 2020,...

Anthony Lavers
Year of Call: 1997

Anthony Lavers spent 21 years at global law firm White & Case, where he was Counsel in the Construction and Engineering Group of the London office. He provided research and advice on both...

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