Group litigation

Matrix Chambers

Lauded for strength in human rights abuse and environmental group litigation, Matrix Chambers‘ areas of expertise encompass consumer law, product liability, and data production. Prior to his appointment as Attorney General in July 2024, Richard Hermer KC leads Edward Craven in emissions group litigation against various manufacturers, representing thousands of claimants. Both also act in Milasi Josiya v British American Tobacco Plc & Imperial Brands Plc, representing thousands of Malawian tobacco farmers seeking compensation from two of the world’s largest tobacco multinationals, alleging child labour, exploitation, and dangerous conditions on tobacco farms. Kate Boakes acted for more than a hundred firefighters who suffered severe psychological harm during the Grenfell Tower Fire, while Antony White KC is instructed in Mackintosh and others v Currys Retail Ltd, relating to 1,700 individual claims for damages for distress arising from a data breach using a single claim form.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

'The clerks are responsive and clear.'
'Clerks are helpful.'
'Matrix Chambers has very strong on the privacy and media side. They have a number of leading silks in this area. They could probably do with more senior juniors.'
'Excellent.'
'At the top of the tree in multiple practice areas, including human rights, defamation and privacy, data protection, competition, employment, environmental law and white collar crime.'

Silks

Leading Silks

KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.

Antony White KC

Matrix Chambers

Juniors

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.