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.
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Claims against solicitors and barristers forms a major past of our professional liability practice.
Members have been instructed on and have expertise in a vats array of claims. These vary but are not excluded to miss handling of personal injury claims, disease, clinical negligence actions, pension sharing orders, ancillary relief and commercial matters.
Due to our expertise across a number of diverse practice areas we will have counsel who as well as being a professional liability specialist also have experience in the underlying action from which the alleged negligence spawns. We feel this level of knowledge and expertise sets Crown Office Chambers apart from our competition.
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 liability, commercial...
David Sears QC
Year of Call: 1984
It is with great sadness that we have to announce that David Sears QC, the Deputy Head of Chambers, died suddenly on Sunday 24th January. His untimely death represents an enormous loss to...
Michael Curtis QC
Year of Call: 1982
Michael Curtis QC specialises in commercial, construction & engineering, insurance, property damage, professional negligence and product liability. He is General Editor and one of the co-authors...
Andrew Rigney QC
Year of Call: 1992
Andrew Rigney QC has an extensive domestic and international practice, which encompasses a wide range of civil and commercial work. He specialises in large-scale disputes arising out of very...
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...
Ben Quiney QC
Year of Call: 1998
Recommendations In the recent editions of Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 Ben is identified as a Leading QC in his core areas of work, such as Insurance, Property Damage, Construction and...
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 QC specialises in catastrophic personal injury and fatal accident claims; and related actions: insurance coverage and indemnity issues; other contractual issues; conflicts of laws;...
Isabel Hitching QC
Year of Call: 1992
Isabel Hitching is a specialist in commercial, construction and engineering, and related insurance, professional negligence and property damage fields. Isabel is known for combining intellectual...
Daniel Shapiro QC
Year of Call: 1999
Daniel Shapiro QC is recognised as “ferociously bright” with “beguiling advocacy skills”. He has extensive trial and appellate advocacy experience in a wide range of commercial litigation,...
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 treatment);...
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 –...
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...
Dermot Woolgar
Year of Call: 1988
Dermot Woolgar has an extensive and notably 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 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 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...
Anna Laney
Year of Call: 1998
Anna Laney's practice centres on construction related matters, whether they be traditional contractors / employers claims, professional negligence disputes or insurance issues. She is also regularly...
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...
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,...
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, insurance, professional negligence, and commercial litigation. He is recognised by Chambers & Partners (2016) as a leading...
Crispin Winser QC
Year of Call: 2003
Crispin Winser specialises in construction, engineering, energy, insurance, professional liability and general commercial litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution both in the UK and...
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...
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...
Jack Macaulay
Year of Call: 2009
Jack Macaulay practices in the core areas of Chamber’s work, with particular focus on personal injury, professional negligence, and property damage.
James Sharpe
Year of Call: 2009
James specialises in commercial and insurance disputes, construction, and professional negligence claims. He regularly appears in the High Court (mainly the TCC and Commercial Court) as sole counsel...
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 insurance, property...
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...
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 negligence, insurance and commercial disputes. Much of his work is in the High Court (particularly the TCC) and he has also appeared before the Court...
Mek Mesfin
Year of Call: 2014
Mek practises in commercial dispute resolution, with particular emphasis on insurance & reinsurance, professional indemnity, construction, energy & infrastructure, arbitration, property...
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...
Douglas James
Year of Call: 2015
Douglas’s practice spans construction, insurance, professional negligence, property damage and personal injury matters – and the overlaps between these areas of work. Douglas prides himself on...
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