Abhijeet Mukherjee
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, and Disciplinary and Regulatory.
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Alex Cisneros
Barrister specialising in Court of Protection, Private Client and Trusts, Education, Public Law.
Alex Haines
Alex was called to the Bar in 2007 for England & wales, in 2019 for New York and in 2020 for Ireland.
Barrister specialising in Business Crime, Regulation and Investigations, Sanctions Law, International Disciplinary Law, International Administrative Law, International Arbitration and ADR, Financial Services Inquiries, Public International Law.
Alexander Line
Barrister specialising in Employment and Discrimination, Education, Public Law, Court of Protection.
Ali Almihdar
Dr Ali Almihdar has a unique status as the first Saudi Arabian lawyer qualified as a member of the English Bar. He has extensive experience representing Saudi and non-Saudi clients in commercial matters in the UK and Saudi Arabia. His work covers the full range of commercial legal practice from advice and drafting through to advocacy. He is equally comfortable conducting litigation in arbitrations, tribunals and before the Saudi Courts. He is instructed in the UK in cross jurisdiction litigation and commercial disputes and is often required to provide strategic advice in inter-party relationships and disputes. He has extensive experience in the energy and construction sector, in particular the field of oil and gas, infrastructure, FIDIC construction and defence contracts. He was the Legal Adviser to the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources and after starting in private practice continued as External Counsel to the Ministry and its commercial arm PETROMIN for several years. He has been instructed in cases and arbitrations involving the disputes on petroleum contracts and construction projects by governmental and commercial entities. He has extensive experience in private client work, including trusts work, where his knowledge of the Sharia and the Arabic language has been particularly important. He has acted for members of the Saudi Royal Family and has advised international law firms in London and the Middle East on complex probate and succession issues.
Aliyah Akram
Aliyah Akram is acknowledged as a leading junior in personal injury, industrial disease and product liability litigation. She is renowned for her expertise and experience in group litigation in all of the core areas in which she practices. Many of her cases have an international aspect and give rise to both jurisdictional issues and conflicts of laws.
The value and complexity of Aliyah’s cases means that the vast majority of her work is in the High Court of Justice.
Aliyah is a robust and persuasive trial advocate. She prides herself on working closely as a team with instructing solicitors, not just in group litigation, but in every case in which she is involved. Her focus is always on maximising the client’s prospects of success. She is able to cut through the background noise and gets straight to the issues.
She is a contributing author of Asbestos: Law & Litigation (Sweet & Maxwell, 2019). She has been described by Chambers & Partners as a ‘rising star’.
Andrew Spink KC
Barrister specialising in Pensions, Commercial Professional Negligence, Commercial, Banking and Financial Services, International Arbitration.
Andrew Short KC
Barrister specialising in Employment and Discrimination, Commercial and Chancery, Pensions, Professional Negligence.
Andrew Allen KC
Barrister specialising in Employment & Discrimination.
Anson Cheung
Barrister specialising in Construction, Commercial & Chancery, International Arbitration, Pensions, Professional Negligence, Banking & Financial Services, Insolvency & Restructuring.
Ben Compton KC
Barrister specialising in Health & Safety, Personal Injury.
Ben Bradley
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Aviation & Travel.
Bianca Venkata
Barrister specialising in private client & trusts, pensions, employment & discrimination, financial services, insolvency, and international related matters.
Carin Hunt
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Travel Law, Employment & Discrimination, Education, Court of Protection, Public Law.
Christopher Wilson-Smith KC
Christopher Wilson-Smith KC specialises in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury.
Christopher Kemp
Barrister Specialising in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence.
Claire van Overdijk KC
Barrister specialising in Court of Protection, Private Client and Trust, Public Law.
Clare Baker
Barrister specialising in Financial Services and Banking, Commercial and Insurance Law.
Courtney Step-Marsden
Barrister specialising in Employment & Discrimination, Pensions, Public law, Personal Injury, Commercial Litigation.
Daniel Barnett
Barrister specialising in Employment, Commercial and Chancery, Sports Law.
Daniel Clarke
Barrister specialising in Travel law, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Commercial and Chancery.
David Russell KC
Barrister specialising in Pensions.
David Holloway
Barrister specialising in International Arbitration and International Trade/Commercial law.
David Haines
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Inquests, Sports Law and Disciplinary & Regulatory.
David E. Grant KC
Barrister specialising in Pensions, Private Clients and Trusts, Professional Negligence, Financial Services and Banking, Employment and Discrimination, Insolvency and Restructuring, Commercial Litigation.
Edward Morgan KC
Barrister specialising in Employment and Discrimination, Commercial Litigation, Disciplinary and Regulatory, Inquests as well as Mediation and Arbitration.
Elaine Palser
Barrister specialising in Private Client and Trusts, Insolvency and Restructuring, Commercial and Chancery, Professional Negligence and Mediation.
Eliot Woolf KC
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Travel Law.
Elizabeth Grace
Barrister specialising in Employment & Discrimination, Pensions, Commercial and Financial Services, Insolvency & Restructuring, Private Client and Trusts, International, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence.
Fiona Horlick KC
Barrister specialising in Health and Safety, Disciplinary and Regulatory, Medical Crime, Business Crime, Regulation and Sanctions, Administrative and Public Law.
Gerard McDermott KC
Barrister specialising in Employment; Clinical Negligence; Health and Safety; Personal Injury; Professional Negligence; Private International Law; EU Law.
Gus Baker
Barrister specialising in Commercial Disputes, Professional Negligence, Employment & Discrimination, Financial Services, Pensions, Health & Safety.
Harriet Jerram
Barrister specialising in Personal injury, and Clinical Negligence.
Harry Steinberg KC
Harry Steinberg specialises in large-scale group claims – typically involving private international tort law and product liability – serious personal injury and industrial disease. Harry was awarded the Personal Injury / Clinical Negligence Silk of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2017.
He is renowned for innovative thinking, winning difficult cases and challenging legal orthodoxy.
Harry is “… rapidly establishing himself…” (Legal 500, 2017) in the area of Civil Liberties and Human Rights (including actions against the police).
Legal 500 (2016) said “… he has an extraordinary legal mind with an ability to understand complex legal issues very quickly.” Chambers & Partners (2015) described him as “…the go-to man for asbestos claims; no-one else compares”.
Helen Pugh
Barrister specialising in Commercial and Civil Fraud, Company and Insolvency, Banking and Finance, Professional Negligence.
Henry Reid
Barrister specialising in Commercial Litigation, Financial Services & Cryptoassets, Sanctions, Regulatory.
Ian Denham
Barrister specialising in Travel law, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Inquests.
Imogen Egan
Barrister specialising in Employment, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Education Law, Public Law, Disciplinary and Regulatory, Sports Law.
James Counsell KC
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Professional Negligence, Disciplinary and Regulatory, Commercial Disputes, Personal Injury, Sports Law.
James Arnold
Barrister specialising in Employment.
James is a specialist in employment and discrimination law. His particular expertise lies in defending complex and high-value discrimination, protected disclosure (whistle-blowing) and detriment claims, as well as providing strategic advice on a broad spectrum of employment law issues.
He is predominately instructed by public & private-sector respondent organisations including police forces, NHS Trusts, universities, county councils and large corporate clients. In addition, he successfully represents claimant employees.
James also maintains an extensive and wide-ranging advisory practice on all aspects of employment law, including TUPE and pension transfers, redundancy issues, settlement agreements, equal pay claims, restrictive covenants and bonus schemes.
Other areas of expertise include conducting internal investigations (disciplinary & grievance), presenting or chairing internal hearings and appeals, witness training, pension advice, police collaboration agreements, ill-health retirements, injury on duty awards, policy & reputational issues and sensitive matters of national security, for which James has SC National Security Clearance valid until 18 August 2026. He also lectures extensively and provides training seminars.
As senior counsel, James is comfortable representing clients against leading juniors and QCs. Having formerly worked in the City, as well as completing pupillage at a leading shipping set, James is able to bring his commercial experience to bear on his employment practice.
James is able to accept instructions from corporate clients directly via the Public Access Scheme.
James Leonard KC
Barrister specialising in Health and Safety, Financial Services, Contempt of Court and Sanctions, Disciplinary and Regulatory.
James Aldridge
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, and Professional Negligence.
Jeremy Scott-Joynt
Barrister specialising in Commercial & Chancery, Financial Services, Business Crime & Investigations, Employment & Discrimination, Disciplinary & Regulatory, Public Law, Sanctions & Export Controls, International Administrative & Disciplinary Law.
Jessica Franklin
Jessica specialises in personal injury, disease and employment.
Jessica writes robust pleadings, offers realistic advice on liability and settlement and is a confident advocate. In employment, she is particularly experienced in whistleblowing, discrimination and unfair dismissal claims. In personal injury, she is experienced in a range of areas including complex vicarious liability, disease and military disputes.
Jessica is interested in appellate work and was recently junior counsel in the Court of Appeal and in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Jessica is a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She achieved a Distinction in the GDL and the BVS. She was awarded academic scholarships by the City Law School and the Inner Temple to undertake her legal studies.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Jessica had a career in advertising and marketing. She worked in Beijing for a year and has a great interest in Chinese culture, language and food.
John McKendrick KC
Barrister specialising in Public Law, Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration and Adjudication, International Law.
Jonathan Hand KC
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Sports Law.
Joshua Hitchens
Barrister specialising in Commercial Litigation, Public Law, International Administrative Law, Sanctions, Business Crime & Regulatory, Financial Services.
Joshua Cainer
Barrister specialising in Employment & Discrimination, Pensions, Commercial & Chancery, Public Law, Regulatory & Human Rights, Public & Private International Law.
Justina Stewart
Barrister specialising in Banking and Finance, Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery, Commercial Litigation, Company, Joint Venture and Partnership, Fintech & Digital Assets, Insolvency and Restructuring, Interim Injunctions and Freezing Orders, International Arbitration and Professional Negligence.
Katarina Sydow
Barrister specialising in Public Law, Court of Protection, Education, Clinical Negligence.
Kate Davenport KC
Barrister specialising in civil and commercial litigation and mediation.
Keith Bryant KC
Barrister specialising in Pensions and Employment. Recent cases include Tesco Stores Ltd v Element [2024] ICR 1098, Abbey v Tesco Stores Ltd [2024] EAT 76, Avon Cosmetics Ltd v Dalriada Trustees Ltd [2024] EWHC 317 (Ch), Avon Cosmetics Ltd v Dalriada Trustees Ltd [2024] ICR 512, Element v Tesco Stores Ltd [2023] ICR 208, Britvic Plc v Britvic Pensions Ltd [2021] Pens LR 16 (CA); K v Tesco Stores Ltd [2021] ICR 1524 (CJEU), SPS Technologies Ltd v Moitt [2021] Pens LR 6, Carter v Chief Constable of Essex and another [2020] EWHC 77 (QB); Re ColArt Pension Scheme [2020] Pens LR 3; R (Carter) v Chelmsford Crown Court and another [2019] EWHC 1484 (Admin), [2019] ICR 1470; Williams v Swansea University Pension & Assurance Scheme Trustees [2018] UKSC 65, [2019] 1 WLR 93, [2019] 2 All ER 1031, [2019] ICR 230, [2019] IRLR 306, [2019] PLR 11; Ibrahim v HCA International Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 2007.
Lorna Badham
Lorna practices in personal injury, clinical negligence and employment law. She has particular specialisms in international illness and accidents, cosmetic negligence claims and complex discrimination work.
Incisive, personable and pragmatic, Lorna works overwhelmingly by repeat instruction and is entrusted with highly sensitive cases, including those for and against vulnerable individuals. Instructing solicitors praise her holistic approach to litigation and ability to identify and push legal and commercial pressure points to ensure the best outcome for her clients. She is often instructed above her call date, appearing against more senior opponents including KCs.
Prior to joining the Bar, Lorna studied at Exeter College, Oxford. Lorna remains an international Li and Fung Scholar and has received the Tancred Studentship, Lord Haldane Scholarship and Hardwicke Scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn. She marshalled for Justice Barma at the High Court of Hong Kong.
Louis Weston
Barrister specialising in Sport, Commercial, Professional Negligence.
Lucian ILIE
Barrister specialising in International Arbitration and ADR, Commercial Litigation, Arbitrator, International Organisations, Private and Public International Law
Lydia Seymour
Barrister specialising in Pensions and Employment & Discrimination Law, including Professional Negligence claims in both areas.
Martina Murphy
Martina Murphy practice focuses on employment, group litigation and professional discipline.
Martina’s “advocacy is excellent”, as is her ability “to relate to clients and really understand their aims“.
She regularly appears unled in the appellate courts including the EAT and the Court of Appeal and is often instructed directly on appeals without having appeared below. She is currently instructed in group employment litigation on behalf of 40+ Claimants. She recently succeeded in defending an appeal before the EAT, which upheld that s.19 Equality Act 2010 does allow claims of associative indirect discrimination (BA v Rollett & Ors, Minister for Women and Equalities intervening [2024] EAT 131). She has also recently been led by Andrew Short KC in the Court of Appeal case of R (on the application of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and others) v (1) HMT and (2) The SoS for the Home Department [2024] Pens. L. R. 10; a pensions, public law and discrimination case where the potential quantum was valued at £19 billion+.
Martina acted for the Respondents in the first Employment Tribunal case to determine that a member of the clergy (assistant curate), had ‘worker’ status for the purposes of bringing a whistleblowing detriment claim, applying the ‘Gilham’ extension applying Article 14 and Article 10 Convention rights. (The Revd. Green v The Lichfield Diocesan Board of Finance, Case no 2409635/2022 (17/8/23)).
Martina is also the Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association (ELBA).
Matthew McDonagh
Barrister specialising in Sports Law, Disciplinary and Regulatory, Business Crime, Regulation and Sanctions.
Matthew Phillips KC
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Sports Law.
Nationwide practice in personal injury and clinical negligence. Personal Injury: predominantly claimant work in the fields of catastrophic injuries and industrial disease. Particular experience in the field of asbestos related claims arising out of occupational and environmental exposure. Instructed in claims against all the major industrial exposers, including Cape plc, Turner & Newall, Powergen/National Power (CEGB), British Steel and ICI. Lectured widely in relation to asbestos related litigation. Notable cases include: Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd – Junior Counsel for two of the three appellants in the House of Lords; ‘Afrika’ group action against Cape plc – claims on behalf of several thousand South African asbestos mine workers. He has recently been involved in a major multi-party action on behalf of over 2000 South African goldminers who have contracted severe lung disease as a result of exposure to silica dust. Catastrophic injury work covers severe spinal, head and fatal injuries arising out of workplace accidents and RTA’s, including high-value CICA applications. Clinical negligence: experience in a variety of fields with a particular emphasis on spinal surgery and birth injuries. Particular interest in sports law. Sits as a chair of the British Equestrian Federation’s anti-doping hearing body. Instructing solicitors include: Irwin Mitchell (Sheffield, Leeds & Birmingham); Stewarts (London); Field Fisher Waterhouse (London); Barratt Goff & Tomlinson (Nottingham); Lamport Bassitt (Southampton); Henmans Freeth LLP (Oxford); Slater & Gordon (Manchester, Liverpool, Halifax and Sheffield).
Michael Bowes KC
Michael specialises in complex Financial Services work, financial crime and civil fraud, both in the UK and abroad. He acts for corporate and individual clients in major international and UK investigations and for the SFO, FCA, OFT and Lloyd's of London. He successfully prosecuted the FSA's first insider dealing case, and has prosecuted several insider dealing cases subsequently. He is instructed in the current LIBOR and FOREX investigations on behalf of a major financial institution and in several substantial cross-border corruption investigations. He receives instructions to advise overseas financial regulators and is instructed in overseas cases as an expert in English law. He has a very strong reputation for successfully leading large case teams.
Michael Uberoi
Barrister specialising in Pensions and Trusts, Chancery and Commercial, Financial Services, Disciplinary and Regulatory.
Naomi Cunningham
Barrister specialising in employment & discrimination.
Naomi Ling
Barrister specialising in Employment and Pensions.
Nathan Tavares KC
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Product Liability, Travel, Court of Protection.
Nicholas Hill
Barrister specialising in Commercial and Chancery, pensions, Financial services, Employment and Discrimination, Professional Negligence.
Nicolas Stallworthy KC
Barrister specialising in Pensions Law (particularly in relation to occupational pension schemes), Commercial Trusts and Contracts, Professional Negligence and Insolvency. Acted in: IBM UK Holdings Ltd v Dalgleish; Re Storm Funding Ltd (in administration); Re the Box Clever Pension Scheme; Re: Nortel and Lehman Brothers; Industry-Wide Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Co-ordinator Ltd v Industry-Wide Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Trustees Ltd; Pensions Ombudsman v EMC Europe Ltd; IBM UK Pensions Trust Ltd v Metcalfe; Dalriada v Faulds; Dollond v The Trustees of the BTG Pension Fund; Bridge Trustees Ltd v Yates; Capita ATL Pension Trustees Ltd v Zurkinskas; Re the Lehman Brothers Pension Scheme; the Pilots National Pension Fund litigation – PNPF Trust Co Ltd v Taylor; HR Trustees Ltd v German & IMG (UK) Ltd; Capital Cranfield Trustees Limited v Beck; Foster Wheeler Ltd v Hanley; Hearn v Dobson; Smithson v Hamilton; Alexander Forbes Trustee Services Ltd v Clarke; Re the Sea Containers 1983 Pension Scheme; Trustee Solutions Ltd v Dubery & Cripps; Steria Ltd v Hutchison; Harland & Wolff Pension Trustees Ltd v Aon Consulting Financial Services Ltd; Pinsent Curtis v Capital Cranfield Trustees Ltd; Stevens v Bell (the British Airways litigation); Hoover Ltd v Hetherington; and Bradstock Group Pension Scheme Trustees Ltd v Bradstock Group Plc. Also involved in National Grid Co Plc v Laws. His cases have concerned interpretation; rectification; the setting aside of trustees’ deeds on grounds of mistake; maladministration and breaches of trust/fiduciary duty by trustees; tracing/restitution of trust property; pension scheme funding; equalisation; the distribution of surpluses; applications for Beddoe relief; pensions mis-selling; employer debts, insolvency and the winding up of pension schemes; the Pensions Protection Fund; and complaints to, oral hearings before and appeals from the pensions ombudsman. Also undertakes general chancery work (commercial and contractual litigation) and professional negligence cases (particularly relating to solicitors, actuaries, scheme administrators, benefits consultants and financial advisers).
Olinga Tahzib
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, International Injury and Travel, Public Inquiries & Inquests, Employment & Discrimination.
Oliver Powell
Barrister specialising in Business Crime, Regulation and Sanctions, Commercial Litigation, Financial Services, Health, Safety and Environment, Marine and Fisheries, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Patrick Tomison
Barrister specialising in Employment and Discrimination, Pensions, Financial Services, Information Rights, Commercial and Chancery.
Patrick Sadd
Barrister specialising in Inquests and Injuries, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Medical Device Litigation, Regulatory
Compensation recovery claims for child and adult abuse (UK and Eire) – counsel to Independent Jersey Care Inquiry (2014-2015) looking into abuse in children’s homes on the island; clinical negligence, including medical device litigation; personal injury compensation claims; professional negligence claims relating to solicitors and barristers’ conduct on personal injury/clinical negligence litigation; transport regulatory compliance; HGV/PSV (EU and domestic); professional regulatory work and disciplinary hearings.
Paul Rogers
Barrister specialising in Disciplinary and Regulatory, Health, Safety and Environment, Marine and Fisheries, International Crime, Transport.
Paul Livingston
Barrister specialising in Employment and Discrimination, Public Inquiries.
Peter Linstead
Barrister specialising in Commercial Litigation, Employment and discrimination, International Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury, Mediation.
Philip Stear
Barrister specialising in Pensions, Chancery & Trusts
Rachel Vickers KC
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury work.
Richard Hitchcock KC
Barrister specialising in Pensions, Professional Negligence, Commercial Litigation.
Richard Mawhinney
Specialist in personal injury, professional negligence. Other areas of practice include partnership, intellectual property and general contractual work.
Robert Rhodes KC
Barrister specialising in Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration, Civil and Criminal Fraud, Disciplinary and Regulatory.
Robert Dickason
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Health and Safety, Group Litigation, Product Liability.
Samantha Presland
Specialist in personal injury and clinical negligence.
Sarah Crowther KC
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Public Law, Employment and Discrimination, Clinical Negligence, Sports Law.
Saul Margo
Saul specialises in pensions and employment, as well as professional negligence claims relating to pension schemes.
His pensions practice encompasses both pure pensions litigation and advisory work with his litigation experience including Part 8, professional negligence and rectification claims.
Additionally, Saul is in demand for his specialist knowledge of cross-over pensions and employment work having been instructed in the litigation relating to the judges pensions scheme, the police pension scheme, sexual orientation discrimination claims relating to the Teachers’ pension scheme and in the leading case relating to discrimination arising from the provision ill-health retirement benefits.
His employment work covers the full range of employment disputes including the private sector equal pay litigation and pensions and employment cross-over work. He has extensive experience of appellate advocacy in the EAT and has appeared numerous times in the Court of Appeal.
Sophie O'sullivan
Barrister specialising in Business Crime and Financial Regulation, Professional Discipline and Regulation, Health and Safety, Sanctions & Export Controls.
Stephen Butler
Barrister specialising in Commercial and Chancery, Employment and Discrimination, Pensions, Financial Services.
Stephen Doherty
Barrister specialising in Commercial Litigation, Pensions, International Arbitration.
Teresa Rosen Peacocke
Barrister specialising in Dispute Resolution, Private Client and Trusts, Professional Negligence.
Tom Gibson
Barrister specialising in Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Sports Law.
Victoria Brown
Barrister specialising in Employment and Discrimination, Pensions, Commercial & Chancery, Public Law, Investigations & Sports Law.
Will Young
Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, International Personal Injury and Travel Law, and Employment.