Courts and Tribunals :

The majority of Chambers work consists of High Court litigation and Commercial Arbitrations, together with appeals to the Court of Appeal, House of Lords, Privy Council and associated advisory work.  Junior Members of Chambers also undertake more varied common law work in the County Court and in Employment Tribunals.

European Union Law practitioners appear in the full range of English Courts and Tribunals, before the OFT and Competition Appeals Tribunal, as well as in the Court of Justice and Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.

Members of Chambers appear also in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and in a wide range of other International Courts and Arbitral Tribunals.

Cases of Note:

Over the last decade we have been involved in many leading cases. They include the Maxwell Litigation, Lloyds Litigation, BCCI affair, Barings Litigation, Rowland -v- Al Fayed, Virgin -v- British Airways, British & Commonwealth / Atlantic Litigation, Gruppo Torras -v- Sheikh Fahad, Co Op -v- Regan, Sony -v- George Michael and various aspects of Senator Pinochet''s judicial reviews.

We have developed our reputation in a wide range of European Union Law cases including Factortame, Sunday Trading, the Rees-Mogg challenge to the Maastricht Treaty, Courage -v- Crehan. Our expertise has grown in cases before the European Court of Human Rights where we have appeared in the case of Grant -v- South West Trains, Saunders -v- UK, and Hatton -v- UK in which the Court considered claims by residents of West London under flight path into Heathrow Airport.

Members of chambers have been involved in the Hutton Inquiry, BSE Inquiry, the "Bloody Sunday" Inquiry, and the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry.

Premises:

Our building, opposite the High Court in London, was redesigned in 1998 to our own specification and incorporates the latest IT facilities.  It allows conferences with clients to be conducted in modern and civilised surroundings, and facilities includes parking spaces, a seminar room and a well-stocked library.

Our Brussels annexe is situated in Avenue d'Auderghem, just opposite the European Commission and a few doors from the United Kingdom''s Permanent Representation.

Members of Chambers :

Sir Sydney Kentridge QC, a former Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Jonathan Sumption QC  Mark Hapgood QC  Richard Gordon QC and Mark Howard QC, are regularly listed among the handful of leading advocates at the London Bar.  Senior members of chambers sit as Judges of the Court of Appeal of Guernsey and Jersey,deputy High Court Judges and Recorders.

Distinguished past members of chambers include Viscount Jowitt LC, Lord Asquith of Bishopstone, Lord Somervell of Harrow, Lord Pearson, Lord Devlin and Professor Otto Kahn-Freund.  More recent former members of chambers include the current Lord Chief Justice , Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Sir Richard Aikens, Sir Peregrine Simon,Sir Paul Walker ,Sir Christopher Clarke, Sir David Lloyd Jones ,His Honour Judge Nicholas Chambers QC, Judge Nicholas Forwood QC (Judge in the CFI Luxembourg) and Lord Reed.

A number of distinguished door tenants, including senior Professors in a number of fields, are available to be instructed . Members of chambers available to act as arbitrators include  Jeremy Gauntlett SC ( former Chaiman of the South African Bar ), Sir Oliver Popplewell, Sir Roger Buckley recently-retired High Court Judges.

Members of chambers also act as mediators.  Six have CEDR accreditation, Stephen Ruttle QC, Hilary Heilbron QC, William Wood QC and Richard Lord QC, Tony Willis and Sir Roger Buckley

For more details of our members of chambers please click here.