Whitestone Chambers

Whitestone Chambers is a leading commercial set of barristers’ chambers. Our barristers provide specialist advice and support with expertise in Aviation and Travel, Banking and Finance, Commercial and Chancery, Insolvency and International Law. The chambers is user-friendly and client-centric with an eye for meticulous detail, while also finding productive quality time to work with charities and the wider community.

Chambers' reputation is founded upon the quality of our specialist advocacy and advice. We place great emphasis on building and sustaining strong relationships with clients through a dedicated administrative team and individual barristers.

Chambers is regularly instructed by some of the most prominent law firms in London. Barristers at Whitestone Chambers understand the pressures that solicitors, in-house lawyers and clients have to face and the necessity of cooperation. The set takes time to invest in clients and strives towards meeting deadlines at all times.

The set is equipped with the skill and expertise of the highest standards, provided by barristers who have been uniquely and rigorously trained from the very early stages of their careers.

Training to become a full time barrister at Whitestone Chambers attracts some of the best candidates coming to a commercial set. We ensure high standards and continuous development. Trainees benefit from the work taught through their training supervisors and other barristers in the chambers. It is a highly collaborative training environment.

The administrative team is led by Robert Pidgeon, Head of Legal Operations. The team is recognised for being highly responsive, client-centric, commercially aware and efficient. They are very professional and tailor recommended counsel to satisfy the requirement of the client, due to their legal qualifications.

Work undertaken at Whitestone: -

Aviation and Travel: Barristers at Whitestone Chambers advise in both contentious and non-contentious matters. They regularly advise, draft pleadings and appear in Courts in and out of London on a variety of Aviation Disputes. Chambers’ expertise covers a range of specialist areas, including but not limited to carriage by air disputes involving EU regulations such as the Package Travel Regulations and the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions, cargo claims, baggage claims, delay claims and denied boarding claims.

Chambers also acts on negligence claims, including personal injury, in both an aviation and employment context, and can advise on the sale, purchase and leasing of new and used aircrafts; commercial arrangements pertaining to aircraft operations (maintenance agreements, agreements for the supply of fuel, catering and ground handling services) and cargo and product liability disputes.

Banking and finance: Barristers at Whitestone are regularly instructed to act both for and against banks in a wide variety of disputes. They often represent and advise in relation to claims brought by banks, particularly against small to medium sized business (those with an annual turnover of up to £50 million) where facilities are secured with guarantees and/or legal charges over the personal property of directors or shareholders. Chambers has acted against almost every bank in the U.K. including Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Halifax and Nat West.

Commercial and Chancery: Our barristers undertake a full range of Commercial and Chancery disputes. They appear regularly in the Commercial Court, Chancery Division and various County Courts in and out of London. Chambers’ barristers are highly experienced in Banking and Finance, Private International Law, Fraud, Injunctive Relief, Insurance, Intellectual Property and Professional Negligence.

Insolvency: The barristers in chambers are experienced in acting for creditors (secured and unsecured) and appear regularly in the Chancery Division and Companies Court of the Royal Courts of Justice. Chambers’ expertise includes Administration, Liquidation, Asset Tracing and Recovery, Bankruptcy, Cross Border Insolvency, winding up petitions and company and individual voluntary arrangements.

International: Barristers at Whitestone Chambers have acted for a large number of commercial clients worldwide for a number of years. They can offer international commercial clients advisory drafting and dispute resolution services. As commercial specialists each barrister understands the commercial objectives of their clients. Our barristers are experienced advocates, well versed in dispute resolution and have appeared in some of the highest courts of England and Wales. Chambers also has associate members, who are lawyers admitted in overseas jurisdictions, often as well as in England and Wales.