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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“The clerks, headed up by Andy Flanagan, “make the effort to understand the solicitor’s needs and reach out to make sure everything works well.” They are “very easy to deal with and always prompt in coming back to you.” Chambers UK Bar guide 2018
Chambers is recognised as the leading set of chambers for Property Damage work, with particular expertise in claims arising out of fires, floods, explosions, storms (including hurricanes), subsidence (including tree roots) etc.
Claims of this nature typically involve complex issues that span across a number of specialisms. These can often include a combination of insurance, construction, product and professional liability issues. Being a leading set in all of the above areas has assisted us in becoming the go – to set for issues this specialist area.
Members of Chambers have been involved in many of the leading cases that have moulded this area.
As well as acting for companies, individuals and insurers we also have extensive experience of subrogated recovery actions.
Andrew Rigney KC
Year of Call: 1992
Andrew Rigney KC is joint Head of Chambers. Andrew has an extensive domestic and international practice, which encompasses a wide range of civil and commercial work. He specialises in large-scale...
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 Curtis KC
Year of Call: 1982
Michael Curtis KC specialises in commercial, construction & engineering, insurance, property damage, professional negligence and product liability. He is General Editor and one of the co-authors...
Ben Quiney KC
Year of Call: 1998
Recommendations In the recent editions of Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 Ben is identified as a Leading KC in his core areas of work, such as Insurance, Property Damage, Construction and...
Kim Franklin KC
Year of Call: 1984
Kim Franklin KC is a recognised specialist in the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors. She acts predominantly as arbitrator, dispute board member and adjudicator, resolving disputes...
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...
Isabel Hitching KC
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 KC
Year of Call: 1999
Daniel Shapiro KC is recognised as “ferociously bright” with “beguiling advocacy skills”. He has extensive trial and appellate advocacy experience in a wide range of commercial litigation,...
Crispin Winser KC
Year of Call: 2003
Crispin Winser KC specialises in construction, engineering, energy, insurance, professional liability and general commercial litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution both in the UK and...
Julian Field
Year of Call: 1980
Julian Field is a senior junior with a commercial practice encompassing property damage, insurance, product liability, contract and tort, commercial fraud and professional negligence. He began his...
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...
Dermot Woolgar
Year of Call: 1988
Dermot Woolgar has an extensive and diverse civil and commercial practice, with particular expertise in the fields of international commercial arbitration, commercial law, construction and...
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...
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...
Anna Laney
Year of Call: 1998
Anna Laney’s practice focusses on construction related matters, whether they be traditional employers’/contractors’ contractual claims, professional negligence disputes or insurance issues. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
James Sharpe
Year of Call: 2009
James is recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers UK in his core practice areas of Professional Negligence and Insurance and Reinsurance. He regularly appears in the High Court (mainly the TCC and...
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 indemnity, insurance, and commercial disputes. He appears frequently in the High Court and has also appeared before the Court of Appeal. Patrick often...
Nicola Atkins
Year of Call: 2012
Nicola specialises in professional liability, construction and insurance disputes, with a particular interest in claims involving construction professionals and both civil and regulatory proceedings...
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...
Sahana Jayakumar
Year of Call: 2014
Sahana joined Crown Office Chambers in 2021 and has broad practice encompassing construction disputes, corporate and personal insolvency, property damage and commercial litigation and arbitration....
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...
Douglas James
Year of Call: 2015
Douglas’s practice spans construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage. Douglas prides himself on providing clear and practical advice, crisp written work and forceful...
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...
Michael Harper
Year of Call: 2016
Michael’s practice centres on professional negligence, insurance, property damage, product liability, commercial disputes and related areas. Michael is ranked by Legal 500 as a Rising Star for...
Joshua Brown
Year of Call: 2017
Josh’s practice covers the range of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular emphasis on commercial disputes, construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage. As well as...
Andrew Brown
Year of Call: 2017
Andrew has a broad commercial practice spanning construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage litigation. He has noted expertise in construction and engineering disputes and...
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...
Toby Chandler
Year of Call: 2019
Toby has a broad commercial practice which encompasses all aspects of chambers commercial, construction, arbitration, professional negligence and insurance matters. Toby advises on and acts at all...
Mariusz Rumun
Year of Call: 2019
Mariusz practises across Chambers’ core areas, with a particular focus on insurance, commercial disputes, professional liability, property damage, and construction. Mariusz is actively involved...
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,...
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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Christopher Kent
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