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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.
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Winners of the Chambers & Partners 2015 Bar Awards Set of the Year.
Winners of the Legal 500 2014 Bar Awards Set of the Year.
Crown Office Chambers is recommended as a leading set for personal injury by the Legal Directories. Our strength in depth enables us to offer our clients a choice of specialist advocates and advisers at all levels – even at short notice.
We act in all forms of personal injury and related insurance work. Our members are retained for claimants and defendants and for every type of client whether large or small. The number of practitioners in Crown Office Chambers allows us to provide high calibre teams of counsel for the large and complex disputes. We also have a reputation for the effective handling of claims which require the personal touch.
We specialise in multi-party and individual claims, both for claimants and defendants, arising from historic sexual abuse and we have the capacity to provide teams of counsel to deal with these where required.
Our team has also been active in many technical and innovative aspects of quantum litigation, most notably in catastrophic injury and rail disaster claims and in precedent setting authorities. We have been at the forefront of the use of structured settlements, periodical payments and flexible claim resolution formats. Costs litigation also figures prominently in a number of members’ practices, and we have a dedicated team who are expert in this field.
Members are willing undertake conditional fee agreements in appropriate cases. A personal injury service protocol is operated for those who wish to enter into it. ADR is extensively undertaken by members, and a fully equipped ADR suite is available for use at Crown Office Chambers.
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...
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...
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...
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...
James Maxwell-Scott KC
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...
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;...
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...
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 treatment);...
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,...
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 Evans-Tovey 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...
Robert O’Leary
Year of Call: 1990
Robert O’Leary practises in the fields of personal injury and industrial disease, representing clients throughout the UK. He has acted on behalf of insurers and institutions, including the UK and...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
Matthew Boyle
Year of Call: 2000
Matthew Boyle practices in the areas of personal injury, industrial disease and sexual abuse claims. He acts for Claimants and Defendants and combines a robust advocacy style with a commercial...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 inquest law. He also sits as a Coroner in Inner North London, covering Camden, Islington, Tower...
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 PI and associated areas of work over the past 13 years. He is an experienced Junior 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...
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 is a Legal 500 Rising Star who specialises in criminal regulatory (health and safety and environment), inquests and inquiries, professional negligence, professional discipline, product...
Katie Ayres
Year of Call: 2014
Katie 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 in the...
Juliet Stevens
Year of Call: 2016
Juliet Stevens practises in the areas of clinical negligence and inquests, product liability, professional discipline, non-clinical professional negligence, and personal injury, acting for both...
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...
Frederick Simpson
Year of Call: 2018
Frederick practises across chambers’ core areas, with a particular focus on construction, insurance, professional liability and property damage. He advises and represents clients in both the High...
Hamish Fraser
Year of Call: 2021
Hamish has developed a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas, including commercial disputes, construction, clinical negligence, criminal regulatory, inquests and inquiries,...
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...
Annie Mackley
Year of Call: 2021
Annie accepts instructions across all Chambers’ core areas, with a particular interest in clinical negligence, personal injury, criminal regulatory, inquests and inquiries, professional negligence...
Benedict Morillo
Year of Call: 2021
Benedict is developing a strong insurance, professional liability, construction, property damage, and commercial practice. He is currently instructed (led by Daniel Shapiro KC and James Sharpe) in...
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Sam Barrett
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Lisa Searle
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