Pensions
Leading Juniors
Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.
Saul Margo
Outer Temple Chambers‘Saul is a pleasure to work with. He takes time to understand his clients and is willing to go into the details, yet extremely user-friendly and is able to take the most difficult of concepts and present it in straightforward manners that are easy to follow and understand.’
Edward Sawyer
Wilberforce Chambers‘With enormous experience of all matters related to pensions, Edward combines technical excellence with fantastic service and unrivalled intellectual capabilities. This makes him an absolute go-to as the premier senior junior at the pensions Bar.’
Lydia Seymour
Outer Temple ChambersLydia is just brilliant. She is calm and thoughtful, always well-prepared and very reassuring to clients. She is an absolute pleasure to work with.'
Sebastian Allen
Wilberforce ChambersSebastian is really personable, makes the law fun, and never seems deterred or concerned by any obstacle.'
Nicholas Hill
Outer Temple ChambersHugely knowledgeable, forensic, practically focussed, and approachable.'
James McCreath
Wilberforce Chambers‘James is an excellent advocate, with a considered, measured approach which helps lead the judge through the relevant points. He is clear and concise, and able to adapt quickly on his feet to the questions raised by the judge.’
Elizabeth Ovey
Radcliffe Chambers‘Excellent knowledge and technical expertise combined with a painstaking step-by-step analysis that opens up new opportunities for clients.’
Jennifer Seaman
Wilberforce ChambersJenny is great to work with – decisive and pragmatic and knows the law well. She provides clear advice on complex issues and is persuasive in her arguments.'
Jonathan Chew
Wilberforce ChambersFriendly, sharp, works well in a team, and focuses on the key issues.'
Henry Day
Radcliffe Chambers‘Henry has excellent technical knowledge of pensions – he is very clever, with a keen eye for detail – and is lovely to work with and a real team player.’
Wendy Mathers
Radcliffe Chambers'Wendy has a prodigious memory (bordering on photographic) and a considerable grasp of detail. She is very impressive in conference with clients, putting them at ease and displaying a strong command of the papers and the issues.'
Saaman Pourghadiri
3 Verulam Buildings‘Intellectually very strong, whilst keeping a keen eye on what really matters for clients. He is an excellent junior for the most technically demanding cases, with a good courtroom manner and a very strong sense of when to press a point and when to move on.’
Philip Stear
Outer Temple Chambers
Michael Uberoi
XXIV Old Buildings‘Michael is brilliant at getting on with others and has an empathy and understanding of the position of other parties.’
James Walmsley
Wilberforce ChambersJames is able to take in a huge amount of information and get to the heart of an issue, he has an eye for detail and can foresee potential areas of weakness in order to deal with them at an early stage.'
Stephen Butler
Outer Temple Chambers
Michael Ashdown
Wilberforce Chambers
Chloe Bell
3 Verulam Buildings
Victoria Brown
Outer Temple Chambers‘Victoria has a strong pensions ability – she is increasingly instructed in part 8 claims by herself and acts as junior in some of the biggest cases.'
Nigel Burroughs
4 New Square'He has great attention to detail and a wide-ranging knowledge of commercial pensions, and is able to sift through a lot of detail to get to the kernel of the matter. Not one to pull a gun from a holster too readily.'
Elizabeth Grace
Outer Temple Chambers‘Beth is approachable, intelligent, very responsive and adopts pragmatic solutions to the tricky issues raised by pensions litigation cases.'
Patrick Halliday
11KBW
Joseph Steadman
Wilberforce ChambersJoe is fantastic to work with – he’s down to earth, responsive and authoritative, and understands exactly what the underlying client is looking for in his advice. The end product is both high quality and accessible.’
Patrick Tomison
Outer Temple ChambersRising stars
Rising stars at the Bar are defined as barristers between four and eight years’ call who are seen as up-and-coming members of the Bar in their respective practice areas by clients and peers alike. They will already be instructed in high-profile, complex, and high-value contentious and non-contentious matters, working with and opposite more experienced leading counsel.