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.
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.