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.
Inquests & Public Inquiries
Members often act for interested parties in the highest profile inquests and public inquiries.
Chambers has particular strengths in Clinical Negligence, Health & Safety, Regulatory Law, Personal Injury and Industrial Disease. Members are uniquely well–placed to appear in any subsequent criminal or civil proceedings and are frequently instructed to advise and represent clients from the very outset of a case through to its conclusion.
Members of Chambers have experience of inquests across a broad range of contexts, including Article 2 ECHR cases. Examples include deaths in the workplace, on construction sites, cases involving fire and electrical safety, explosions, carbon monoxide poisoning, deaths as a result of medical treatment (or lack of treatment), in residential and nursing care homes, in schools and nurseries, in custody, in road traffic accidents and police pursuits.
Inquests & Public Inquiries Contact
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David Platt QC
Year of Call: 1987
David Platt QC specialises in occupational disease, personal injury, insurance, health and safety, sports, abuse and inquest work. He also undertakes most forms of common law, environmental work and...
John Cooper QC
Year of Call: 1985
John Cooper QC 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...
James Ageros QC
Year of Call: 1990
James Ageros QC 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. He has...
James Maxwell-Scott QC
Year of Call: 1995
James is a specialist in Criminal Regulatory law and inquests. His practice is a roughly equal mix of representing organisations and individuals facing prosecution for safety based regulatory offences...
Dominic Kay QC
Year of Call: 1997
Dominic Kay QC is a specialist regulatory law practitioner, practising exclusively in Health & Safety, Environmental law and Inquests. In 2020 he was named ‘Health & Safety Silk of the...
Simon Antrobus QC
Year of Call: 1995
Simon has over twenty years of experience as one of the leading figures in this field of criminal regulatory law. Along the way, he has represented corporate clients in some of the highest profile...
Farrah Mauladad QC
Year of Call: 1999
Farrah Mauladad 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...
Catherine Foster
Year of Call: 1986
Catherine specialises in various niche areas of personal injury, abuse and disease litigation, focusing on a range of occupational diseases; occupational stress; child sexual exploitation; sexual...
Peter Morton
Year of Call: 1988
Peter Morton’s practice is 75% industrial disease litigation, almost all of which is for Defendants. The balance of his practice involves higher-value RTA cases, workplace accidents, and...
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...
Richard Tyrrell
Year of Call: 1993
Richard Tyrrell has considerable experience in the fields of Health & Safety, NHS Governance and Consumer Protection (including Food Safety) and defends Companies and NHS Trusts, their Directors...
Mark Balysz
Year of Call: 1995
Mark Balysz is one of the country’s leading criminal and inquest advocates, specialising in corporate and individual manslaughter, health and safety, environmental prosecutions, trading offences and...
Richard Whitehall
Year of Call: 1998 - Lincoln's Inn
Richard specialises in personal injury cases, and practises exclusively in the Multi-Track. He has a very busy practice, representing Claimants and Defendants. He has been instructed for many years on...
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;...
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 specialises in criminal regulatory and professional disciplinary law. He is known for his thorough preparation, attention to detail and incisive advocacy. He has been described in the Chambers...
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....
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...
Alice Jarratt
Year of Call: 2007
Alice Jarratt is a highly experienced trial advocate who has conducted countless trials in the Magistrates and Crown Courts and made numerous appearances in the Court of Appeal. She has a reputation...
Nadia Whittaker
Year of Call: 2007
Nadia Whittaker specialises in personal injury, occupational disease, clinical negligence and inquests. She benefits from having an academic background in psychology and medical law.
Siobhan Lambertsen
Year of Call: 2007
Siobhan Lambertsen practices in the areas of personal injury, industrial disease and clinical negligence. She acts predominantly for Defendants, with a robust advocacy and tough cross-examination...
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, clinical negligence, personal injury and property damage. He is recognised as a leading junior in the directories and in recent years has...
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...
Rory Holmes
Year of Call: 2009
Rory has specialised in PI and associated areas of work over the past 12 years. He is an experienced advocate with a caseload which overlaps a number of Chambers’ specialisms. He is instructed to...
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...
Lara Knight
Year of Call: 2012
Lara specialises in clinical negligence, industrial disease, inquests, personal injury and product liability. In addition to drafting and advisory work she has extensive court experience, regularly...
Jack Murphy
Year of Call: 2013
Jack has developed a specialist criminal regulatory law, personal injury, and inquest law practice. He has extensive court experience. As part of his civil practice, he regularly appears in the...
Katie Sage
Year of Call: 2014
Katie specialises in criminal regulatory, personal injury, professional negligence, product liability and construction disputes. She is currently instructed as junior counsel for one of the public...
Juliet Stevens
Year of Call: 2016
Juliet Stevens’ practice encompasses the breadth of Chambers’ key specialisms. She has extensive trial experience and appears regularly before the courts for costs/case management hearings and...
Meredith Daniel
Year of Call: 2017
Meredith has a broad practice across Chambers’ core areas including personal injury, clinical negligence, inquests, property damage, professional negligence and general commercial litigation. She...
Hamish Fraser
Year of Call: 2021
Hamish joined Chambers in October 2021 after successful completion of his pupillage. He accepts instructions across the span of Chambers’ core areas, including commercial disputes, construction,...
Susanne Tanner QC (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...
Toby Sparrow
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Sam Barrett
+44 (0)20 7797 8128
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Joe Shepherd
+44 (0)20 7797 6172
shepherd@crownofficechambers.com
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