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1 PUMP COURT, TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7AA
England
Cloisters > The Legal 500 Rankings
London Bar > Employment Tier 1
Cloisters is ‘packed with employment law talent‘, housing a team of ‘outstanding counsel‘. The group continues to handle a high volume of complex discrimination cases, and reports an increase in multi-party equal pay claims. The ‘exceptionally talented‘ Caspar Glyn KC is representing more than 8,000 drivers, as claimants, in litigation against Bolt concerning allegations of non-payment of the national minimum wage and holiday pay. In a separate matter, Schona Jolly KC, Rachel Barrett and Ameer Ismail are acting for multiple claimants in claims involving allegations of harassment and discrimination brought against McDonald’s. Daphne Romney KC is ‘a true force to be reckoned with‘, with established expertise in advising on equal pay and whistleblowing claims. Team head Dee Masters is ‘extremely knowledgeable on tribunal practice and procedure‘. In recent developments for the set, Yvette Genn was appointed a Circuit Judge in October 2023, and Anna Beale KC and Sarah Fraser Butlin KC were elevated to silk in March 2024.Rising stars
Leading Silks
2023 Silks
2024 Silks
Leading Juniors
Testimonials
‘Glenn Hudson is a pleasure to work with. He is always helpful and responsive.’
‘Mark Skipp and Andy Hunter are always on hand to assist and deal with matters quickly and pragmatically.’
‘Glenn and Mark are superb for their client care.’
‘Frankie Beale and William Parkhouse are always very helpful, responsive and capable.’
‘The clerking team is first class.’
‘Cloisters is a first rate employment chambers.‘
‘The set has a commendable depth of expertise in employment law.’
‘One of the leading lights at the employment Bar.’
London Bar > Clinical negligence Tier 3
The clinical negligence practitioners at Cloisters are noted as ‘strong advocates for severely injured and vulnerable’, offering expertise ‘excellent expertise and breadth’. Simon Dyer KC demonstrates this with his broad expertise in high-value natal, cognitive injury and surgical claims, with significant expertise in asphyxia-induced brain damage during births, seen in his recent cases, including one settled for £18.5m. New silks Anna Beale KC and Sarah Fraser Butlin KC do a broad spectrum of high-value claims, with a special focus on complex causation claims, crossing over with expertise in separate but related fields such as inquests.Leading Silks
2024 Silks
Leading Juniors
Testimonials
‘Glen Hudson, senior clerk, is extremely helpful and understanding, and a great leader of the group. The junior clerks are always available and consistently helpful.’
‘The clerks are responsive, helpful and friendly. They provide an excellent service.’
‘William Parkhouse is a pleasure to deal with, very responsive and amenable.’
‘Frankie Beale is excellent.’
‘Strong set, focusing on high value complex cases.
‘Strong advocates for severely injured and vulnerable.’
‘Excellent expertise and breadth. ‘
‘Cloisters is a first rate set with many excellent advocates. Undoubtably there is pool of talent there.’
Work highlights
London Bar > Personal injury Tier 4
Cloisters‘ personal injury offering is highlighted for its ‘strength in depth’, and operates in a range of personal injury claims that straddle both maximum severity injuries, including brain, polytraumatic and chronic pain injuries, and psychiatric injuries, along with abuse claims. William Latimer-Sayer KC is a leading practitioner of the area, overseeing disputes over injuries with quantum into eight figures, typically involving maximum severity injuries resulting in serious disabilities. Tamar Burton works closely with senior practitioners in the set, and operates in both serious physical injury litigation, and psychiatric injuries stemming from trauma or abuse.Leading Silks
Personal injury - Leading Juniors
Testimonials
‘Cloisters are a class outfit’
‘Clerks are very good and responsive. Quick to respond and provide excellent service.’
‘A very strong set for maximum value clinical negligence and personal injury work. The set is clearly a strong team, who value one another. In particular, it’s clear that senior KCs support women going and returning from maternity leave, which is really important. ‘
‘Excellent, pro-active, helpful and sensible and pragmatic in relation to fees and counsel availability’
‘A top personal injury and employment set. The expertise in both is very helpful for cross-over work (eg discrimination and stress).’
‘Cloisters is a safe pair of hands for complex high value clinical negligence and personal injury claims. Their barristers are very in demand but always offer a bespoke and focused service.’
Work highlights
London Bar > International human rights and criminal law
London Bar > Sport
Leading Silks
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
Leading Silks
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
Leading Juniors
Cloisters > Set Profile
Cloisters is a highly-regarded and long-established set that advises on employment, discrimination and equality, personal injury, clinical negligence, commercial law, regulatory and public law, sport and entertainment with a reputation for delivering exceptional results.
Cloisters is renowned for its responsive, first-class client focus combined with a technical excellence and commercial perspective that enables them to resolve the most complex legal problems for individuals and organisations of all sizes.
They are continually at the forefront of ground-breaking cases. Many Cloisters barristers are the undisputed leaders in their field and represent clients at every level up to the European Court.
The set: Cloisters is known for its expertise along with a modern, flexible approach and outstanding client care. Most of its 52 barristers are ranked leaders in their field.
Types of work undertaken: Cloisters acts for large multinational and national businesses, SMEs, small employers, employees, non-government organisations, charities, regulators, local authorities, associations, government departments, universities, unions, professional bodies, professionals and individuals.
Clinical negligence: Cloisters is the predominant claimant clinical negligence set, with a large team of silks and juniors. It has an outstanding reputation for dealing with multimillion-pound catastrophic birth and spinal injury claims and is at the cutting edge of clinical negligence law, playing a lead in many of the major cases.
Employment: Cloisters is the go-to set for all aspects of employment and discrimination law. It is consistently instructed in landmark cases cementing its reputation as an expert in the field.
Human rights and civil liberties: Cloisters was founded on a commitment to civil liberties. The set has unrivalled expertise in dealing with difficult and novel issues involving both domestic and European law. Seven members are appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) panel of preferred counsel. The team covers domestic and international areas and is involved in the European Court of Human Rights, UN Human Rights Council and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Inquests and inquiries: Cloisters is a sought-after set for providing representation to bereaved families and dependants in the most complex and sensitive of inquest proceedings. It is well versed in Article 2 inquests, coronial law and judicial review stemming from areas that include healthcare deaths, workplace deaths, road traffic accidents, death in prison, and deaths of children and young people.
Personal injury: Chambers personal injury team is highly sought-after for its expertise in maximum severity work, with experience ranging from multimillion-pound catastrophic injury claims to industrial and traffic accidents, and claims relating to explosions, disease and the armed forces.
Professional discipline and regulatory: Cloisters is recognised for its expertise across a wide range of professions and members of the team appear regularly in front of different panels. The team is well placed to draw on the expertise gained from Cloisters other areas of practice.
Public law: Cloisters represents and advises on discrimination, human rights, judicial review and public inquiries, both for and against public bodies and regulatory authorities. The team brings particular insight into matters relating to education and healthcare professionals.
Sports, media and entertainment: the team acts for the FA in high-profile matters as well as for a wide range of sports bodies and personalities. The team’s strength lies in applying exemplary legal technical skill in a sporting context to produce ground-breaking, creative solutions for clients.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Members of Chambers | ALLEN KC, Robin (1974, 1995) | ||
Members of Chambers | DONOVAN KC, Joel (1991, 2011) | ||
Members of Chambers | MITCHELL KC, Jonathan (Scotland) (1979, 1992) | ||
Members of Chambers | NAPIER KC, Brian (Scotland) (1986, 2002) | ||
Members of Chambers | TAYLOR KC, Dr Simon (1984, 2006) | ||
Members of Chambers | EPSTEIN KC, Paul (1988, 2006) | ||
Members of Chambers | ROMNEY KC, Daphne (1979, 2009) | ||
Members of Chambers | HITCHCOCK KC, Patricia (1988, 2011) | ||
Joint Head of Chambers | ALGAZY KC, Jacques (1980, 2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | GLYN KC, Caspar (1992, 2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | GALBRAITH-MARTEN KC, Jason (1991, 2014) | ||
Members of Chambers | CRASNOW KC, Rachel (1994, 2015) | ||
Members of Chambers | LATIMER-SAYER KC, William (1995, 2016) | ||
Members of Chambers | DYER KC, Simon (1987, 2017) | ||
Members of Chambers | JOLLY KC, Schona (1999, 2017) | ||
Members of Chambers | COGHLIN KC, Thomas (1998, 2018) | ||
Members of Chambers | WILLIAMS KC, Edmund (2000) | ||
Members of Chambers | SEAWARD, Martin (1978) | ||
Members of Chambers | BUCHAN, Andrew (1981) | ||
Members of Chambers | O'DEMPSEY, Declan (1987) | ||
Members of Chambers | CASSERLEY, Catherine (1991) | ||
Members of Chambers | GENN, Yvette (1991) | ||
Members of Chambers | MICHELL, Paul (1991) | ||
Members of Chambers | HORAN, John (1993) | ||
Members of Chambers | LAWSON, Daniel (1994) | ||
Members of Chambers | D'SOUZA, Carolyn (1994) | ||
Members of Chambers | COWEN, Sally (1995) | ||
Members of Chambers | ROBERTSON, Sally (1995) | ||
Joint Head of Chambers | McLEISH, Martyn (1997) | ||
Members of Chambers | REINDORF, Akua (1999) | ||
Members of Chambers | BROWN, Thomas (2000) | ||
Members of Chambers | JACOBS, Linda (2000) | ||
Members of Chambers | McCANN, Claire (2000) | ||
Members of Chambers | BEALE, Anna (2001) | ||
Members of Chambers | OHRINGER, Adam (2001) | ||
Members of Chambers | GODFREY, Hannah (2002) | ||
Members of Chambers | MASTERS, Dee (2004) | ||
Members of Chambers | FRASER BUTLIN, Sarah (2005) | ||
Members of Chambers | MILSOM, Christopher (2006) | ||
Members of Chambers | DOBBIE, Olivia-Faith (2007) | ||
Members of Chambers | MUSGRAVE-COHEN, Caroline (2008) | ||
Members of Chambers | STIRLING, Catriona (2008) | ||
Members of Chambers | CAIDEN, Nathaniel (2009) | ||
Members of Chambers | OMERI, Sheryn (2010) | ||
Members of Chambers | LORD, Chesca (2011) | ||
Members of Chambers | BARRETT, Rachel (2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | BURTON, Tamar (2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | DANVER, Jennifer (2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | COOK, Jonathan (2017) | ||
Members of Chambers | FITZPATRICK, Ruaraidh (2017) | ||
Members of Chambers | MEENAN, Catherine (2018) | ||
Members of Chambers | GOODMAN, Charlotte (2019) | ||
Members of Chambers | VEALE, Laurene (2019) | ||
Members of Chambers | JACKSON, Joshua (2020) | ||
Members of Chambers | SHARP, Melanie (2020) | ||
Members of Chambers | ISMAIL, Ameer, (2021) |
Barrister Profiles
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Jacques Algazy KC | Jacques Algazy practices in employment, commercial, European, and public law. His robust… | View Profile |
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Robin Allen KC | Acts for a very wide range of clients, from individuals to organisations,… | View Profile |
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Rachel Barrett | Barrister specialising in employment, discrimination, inquests and inquiries, clinical negligence, human rights and… | View Profile |
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Anna Beale KC | Barrister specialising in employment and discrimination, clinical negligence and personal injury law.… | View Profile |
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Tom Brown | Barrister specialising in employment, equality, EU, commercial, public, immigration and human rights… | View Profile |
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Andrew Buchan | Barrister who has been specialising in personal injury since 1984. He has… | View Profile |
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Tamar Burton | Tamar specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury, inquests, employment and discrimination work.… | View Profile |
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Nathaniel Caiden | Barrister specialising in in employment, discrimination and equality. Also a trained mediator… | View Profile |
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Catherine Casserley | Practises employment, discrimination and human rights law. Previously employed by the Disability… | View Profile |
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Tom Coghlin KC | Tom Coghlin QC has a wealth of experience of first instance and… | View Profile |
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Jonathan Cook | Employment, Discrimination & Equality, Clinical Negligence, Commercial Law, Personal Injury, Requlatory | View Profile |
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Sally Cowen | All areas of employment law equality and discrimination law and TUPE. Independent… | View Profile |
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Rachel Crasnow KC | Leading QC specialising in employment law, with emphasis on discrimination and human… | View Profile |
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Carolyn D'Souza | View Profile | |
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Carolyn D'Souza | View Profile | |
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Jennifer Danvers | Main areas of practice: Clinical Negligence, Discrimination and Equality Law, Employment Jen… | View Profile |
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Olivia-Faith Dobbie | Olivia is a courageous advocate with a strong court presence. She is… | View Profile |
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Joel Donovan KC | Barrister practising mainly in complex high-value clinical negligence and PI, including grave… | View Profile |
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Simon Dyer KC | Simon Dyer QC specialises in clinical negligence and personal injury claims. Simon… | View Profile |
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Paul Epstein KC | Paul is an employment and discrimination law specialist. He has appeared in… | View Profile |
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Ruaraidh Fitzpatrick | Clinical Negligence, Discrimination & Equality, Employment, Human Rights, Personal Injury, Regulatory | View Profile |
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Sarah Fraser Butlin KC | Specialising in employment, clinical negligence, personal injury. | View Profile |
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Jason Galbraith-Marten KC | Jason is one of the UK’s leading employment and equality lawyers. In… | View Profile |
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Yvette Genn | Yvette Genn is a specialist employment lawyer with in-depth expertise in complex… | View Profile |
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Caspar Glyn KC | Caspar is an expert in the employment relationship, contractual (including injunctive relief)… | View Profile |
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Caspar Glyn KC | Caspar is an expert in the employment relationship, contractual (including injunctive relief)… | View Profile |
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Hannah Godfrey | Barrister (called 2002) at Cloisters Chambers specialising in personal injury and clinical… | View Profile |
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Patricia Hitchcock KC | Queen’s Counsel. Specialising in complex high-value claims, especially brain and spinal injury,… | View Profile |
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John Horan | Barrister in discrimination and equality and employment. On the day before the… | View Profile |
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Linda Jacobs | Linda Jacobs is a barrister at Cloisters (2000 call, Middle Temple, Harmsworth… | View Profile |
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Schona Jolly KC | Schona Jolly QC has a high profile domestic and international practice, with… | View Profile |
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William Latimer-Sayer KC | William specialises in catastrophic personal injury and clinical negligence. He has a… | View Profile |
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Daniel Lawson | Dan specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence and insurance law. | View Profile |
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Chesca Lord | Barrister specialising in employment and discrimination, personal injury, and clinical negligence. Chesca… | View Profile |
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Dee Masters | Dee Masters has been ranked in the legal directories since 2010 as… | View Profile |
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Claire McCann | Claire McCann specialises in employment, equality and public law as well as… | View Profile |
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Martyn McLeish | Martyn McLeish is an experienced personal injury and clinical negligence junior, recommended… | View Profile |
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Paul Michell | Paul is an employment law specialist. He regularly acts in equal pay,… | View Profile |
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Christopher Milsom | Chris operates at the forefront of employment and equality law having appeared… | View Profile |
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Caroline Musgrave-Cohen | Caroline specialises in employment and equality law. She advises and represents clients… | View Profile |
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Brian Napier KC | Practises employment and discrimination law in England and Scotland (Faculty of Advocates).… | View Profile |
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Declan O"Dempsey | Declan O’Dempsey is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s… | View Profile |
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Declan O'Dempsey | Barrister at Cloisters Chambers, part time fee paid employment judge in North… | View Profile |
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Adam Ohringer | Adam is an employment specialist who still maintains a broader civil law… | View Profile |
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Sheryn Omeri KC | Barrister specialising in employment and discrimination, clinical negligence, human rights, public law… | View Profile |
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Ms Akua Reindorf KC | Akua Reindorf specialises in employment, discrimination and human rights law. She is… | View Profile |
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Sally Robertson | All areas of equality, discrimination and employment law, including whistleblowing and TUPE,… | View Profile |
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Daphne Romney KC | Daphne Romney QC is an expert in high-value, very complex litigation and… | View Profile |
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Martin V Seaward | Barrister specialising in personal and fatal injuries, occupational pensions, coroner’s inquests, administrative… | View Profile |
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Catriona Stirling | Catriona has specialised in clinical negligence and personal injury for a number… | View Profile |
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Dr Simon Taylor KC | Simon is a medical doctor as well as a barrister and specialises… | View Profile |
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Dr Simon Taylor KC | Simon is a medical doctor as well as a barrister and specialises… | View Profile |
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Ed Williams KC | Ed is named by the Legal 500, Chambers and Partners and Legal… | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Glenn Hudson : Senior Clerk Mark Skipp : 1st Junior Clerk Andrew Hunter : 2nd Junior Clerk William Parkhouse : 3rd Junior Clerk Frankie Beale : 4th Junior Clerk Lauren Maynard : 5th Junior Clerk- Employment
Top Tier Set Rankings
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