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.”

Our Barristers

With over 100 barristers working in specialist areas, our multi-discipline chambers has strong expertise in commercial and general insurance.

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Our Clerks

The ‘outstanding’ clerks are ‘commercial and willing to consider cases on innovative fee structures – not something seen at some of the more traditional sets’.

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Our Staff

As a strong commercial set, our dedicated staff provide extensive support to help maintain Crown Office as a leading chambers.

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Personal Injury

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.

Personal Injury Contact

James Wilkinson

T 0207 797 6226
E wilkinson@crownofficechambers.com

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Richard Lynagh QC
Call 1975 Silk 1996

Michael Kent QC
Call 1975 Silk 1996

Jonathan Waite QC
Call 1978 Silk 2002

Margaret Bickford-Smith QC
Call 1973 Silk 2003

Christopher Kennedy QC
Call 1989 Silk 2010

David Platt QC
Call 1987 Silk 2011

Alexander Antelme QC
Call 1993 Silk 2014

Andrew Smith QC
Call 1988 Silk 2016

James Maxwell-Scott QC
Call 1995 Silk 2016

Patrick Blakesley QC
Call 1993 Silk 2018

John Stevenson
Call 1975

John Greenbourne
Call 1978

Gordon Catford
Call 1980

Paul Dean
Call 1982

A. John Williams
Call 1983

Steven Coles
Call 1983

James Medd
Call 1985

Shaun Ferris
Call 1985

Catherine Foster
Call 1986

William Vandyck
Call 1988

Peter Morton
Call 1988

Erica Power
Call 1990

Jason Evans-Tovey
Call 1990

Robert O’Leary
Call 1990

Suzanne Chalmers
Call 1995

Jamie Clarke
Call 1995

Andrew Davis
Call 1996

Edward Broome
Call 1996

Victoria Woodbridge
Call 1998

Jack Ferro
Call 1998

Farrah Mauladad
Call 1999

Mark Armitage
Call 1999

Matthew Boyle
Call 2000

Alexander Macpherson
Call 2000

Peter Houghton
Call 2005

Nadia Whittaker
Call 2007

Siobhan Lambertsen
Call 2007

Helen Pagett
Call 2008

Harry Lambert
Call 2008

Jack Macaulay
Call 2009

Rory Holmes
Call 2009

Caroline McColgan
Call 2010

Carlo Taczalski
Call 2010

Athena Markides
Call 2011

Patrick Maxwell
Call 2011

Lara Knight
Call 2012

Jack Murphy
Call 2013

Adam Taylor
Call 2014

Mek Mesfin
Call 2014

Maurice Holmes
Call 2015

Douglas James
Call 2015

Katherine Sage
Call 2014

Juliet Stevens
Call 2016

Richard Lynagh QC
Year of Call: 1975

Richard Lynagh QC is Head of Crown Office Chambers. He has a wide-ranging civil practice, which includes: personal injury, insurance & reinsurance, professional indemnity, commercial...

Michael Kent QC
Year of Call: 1975

Michael Kent QC 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...

Jonathan Waite QC
Year of Call: 1978

Jonathan Waite QC's main area of work is product liability, in particular acting in-group litigation, on behalf of pharmaceutical companies, in respect of drugs, vaccines and medical devices or...

Margaret Bickford-Smith QC
Year of Call: 1973

Margaret Bickford-Smith QC took silk in 2003 having developed a broad practice encompassing high-value and complex negligence cases, property, construction, commercial law and environmental...

Christopher Kennedy QC
Year of Call: 1989

Christopher Kennedy QC 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 QC
Year of Call: 1987

David Platt QC specialises in occupational disease, personal injury, insurance, health and safety, abuse and inquest work. He also undertakes most forms of common law, environmental work and...

Alexander Antelme QC
Year of Call: 1993

Alexander Antelme QC acts in the fields of clinical negligence, product liability, property damage, personal injury and professional negligence. He is instructed on his own or as part of a team of...

Andrew Smith QC
Year of Call: 1988

Andrew Smith QC 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 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...

Patrick Blakesley QC
Year of Call: 1993

Patrick Blakesley has been recognised for many years in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories as a leading personal injury junior. He routinely handles multi-million pound catastrophic...

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);...

Gordon Catford
Year of Call: 1980

Gordon Catford specialises in clinical negligence and personal injury and is recognised by Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 as a leading junior. Legal 500 2015 describe Gordon as "a...

Paul Dean
Year of Call: 1982

Paul Dean areas of practice are: clinical negligence, personal injuries, aviation and travel law and commercial / common law claims. He has experience of mediation and other forms of ADR.

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, such as policy coverage disputes, defence of third party claims, and insurers' subrogated recovery claims - under...

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, in particular, catastrophic injury claims, industrial disease claims (particularly...

Catherine Foster
Year of Call: 1986

Catherine Foster's specialist areas of practice are personal injury (with a particular interest in disease, occupational stress and catastrophic injury litigation), clinical negligence, professional...

William Vandyck
Year of Call: 1988

William Vandyck specialises in personal injury and industrial disease. He deals particularly with workplace stress/bullying, chronic pain/fibromyalgia, asbestos, and catastrophic injury as well as...

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...

Erica Power
Year of Call: 1990

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

Jason Evans-Tovey
Year of Call: 1990

After Cambridge (where he read Natural Sciences and then Law (1st Class)) and an LLM in the USA, Jason practised as an associate attorney with Dewey Ballantine in New York and Washington DC. He...

Robert O’Leary
Year of Call: 1990

Robert O’Leary practises in the fields of personal injury and occupational disease, representing clients throughout the UK. He has acted on behalf of individuals, unions, insurers and institutions,...

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 joined Crown Office Chambers in August 2014, bringing with him nearly 20 years' experience in his core practice areas of personal injury, industrial disease, clinical negligence and...

Andrew Davis
Year of Call: 1996

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

Edward Broome
Year of Call: 1996

Edward Broome's practice entails advocacy and advisory work in the following fields: Civil Procedure & Costs, Commercial & Contracts, Personal Injury (incorporating Health & Safety and...

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...

Farrah Mauladad
Year of Call: 1999

Farrah Mauladad specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury and professional discipline matters. She has extensive experience in Court and is often instructed in cases that are likely to fight...

Mark Armitage
Year of Call: 1999

Mark Armitage specialises in commercial, costs, inquests and personal injury cases.

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...

Peter Houghton
Year of Call: 2005

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

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 specialises in personal injury and clinical negligence. She regularly presents clients at trial, interim applications and appeals at both county court and High Court level. Siobhan...

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 practises in the areas of product liability, clinical negligence and property damage. He has been involved in some of the most high profile group actions of recent years including the...

Jack Macaulay
Year of Call: 2009

Jack practices in the core areas of Chamber’s work, with particular focus on personal injury, property damage, commercial law, and general common law.

Rory Holmes
Year of Call: 2009

Rory joined Chambers in October 2010 upon successful completion of his pupillage. He has extensive Court experience, and has appeared as junior counsel in the Supreme Court. For further details of...

Caroline McColgan
Year of Call: 2010

Caroline McColgan joined chambers in October 2011 following successful completion of her pupillage. Since then she has been developing a practice which is strongly focused on property damage,...

Carlo Taczalski
Year of Call: 2010

Carlo specialises in commercial, construction, insurance, and professional negligence matters. He is recommended as a leading individual in the 2017 edition of the Legal 500. He is regularly in...

Athena Markides
Year of Call: 2011

Athena Markides practices 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 Maxwell joined Crown Office Chambers in 2015 having established a successful civil and commercial practice at a leading common law chambers. He continues to develop a broad practice across all...

Lara Knight
Year of Call: 2012

Lara Knight's practice includes all of Chambers' practice areas and regularly appears in the County Court for trials and interlocutory hearings. She has also appeared before the Queens Bench Masters. ...

Jack Murphy
Year of Call: 2013

Jack Murphy has a broad practice encompassing personal injury and clinical negligence, construction, general commercial litigation, professional negligence and criminal regulatory work. He is...

Adam Taylor
Year of Call: 2014

Adam joined Chambers in October 2015 following pupillage. In his civil practice, Adam specialises in contractual and tortious disputes in the areas of commercial, sport, professional negligence,...

Mek Mesfin
Year of Call: 2014

Mek Mesfin's practice spans the range of chambers' areas, with a particular emphasis on insurance, construction, professional negligence and commercial disputes. He is instructed in disputes which are...

Maurice Holmes
Year of Call: 2015

Maurice Holmes has a broad practice encompassing the majority of Chambers' core specialisms. He is currently instructed in ongoing High Court disputes both as junior and sole counsel. He regularly...

Douglas James
Year of Call: 2015

Douglas joined chambers in October 2016 following pupillage. His practice is particularly focussed on construction, insurance, professional negligence, property damage and personal injury matters –...

Katherine Sage
Year of Call: 2014

Katherine’s growing practice, in and out of court, spans the full range of Chambers’ work. Her civil law practice both in respect of paperwork and court appearances is developing across all...

Juliet Stevens
Year of Call: 2016

Having joined Chambers in October 2017, Juliet Stevens is developing a broad practice across all Chambers’ specialist areas. She has appeared as junior counsel in the High Court and regularly...