Chambers of Raymond Machell QC
12 BYROM STREET, MANCHESTER, M3 4PP, ENGLAND
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- Work 0161 829 2100
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- Fax 0161 829 2101
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- 718156 MANCHESTER 3
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Byrom Street Chambers is a unique and specialist set practising within the heart of Manchester’s recently developed business and legal centre at Spinningfields, and in close proximity to the new 47 court Civil Justice Centre and the Crown Court. Members also practise from the recently refurbished Chambers at 42 Bedford Row, London. According to The Legal 500 2010, ‘Byrom Street Chambers is strong for civil instructions and offers an “excellent service”, aided by “unparalleled clerks” support’.
The set: Chambers’ premises are modern, purpose-built, DDA-compliant and architecturally designed with particular attention to the needs of both professional and lay clients. Facilities include large comfortable conference rooms, two video conferencing suites, the latest information technology with wireless connection and an extensive library.
Byrom Street Chambers is a forward-thinking set with traditional values, exclusively dedicated to the work of leading and senior junior counsel with extensive expertise in high-value and complex cases. Chambers provides a highly individual and personalised service, with an emphasis on clients’ needs, combined with a friendly and open approach to clerking.
Five members of Chambers currently sit as deputy High Court judges, one member as the judge of appeal in the Isle of Man, 11 members sit as recorders, one member sits on the Mental Health Review Tribunal, one member sits on the CICA panel and one member sits as a deputy coroner.
Types of work undertaken: With a reputation for quality and service, members offer advice and advocacy in a range of specialisations and can provide the depth of cover necessary to conduct litigation in the most complex of cases. They practise regularly in the fields of personal injury (with an emphasis on catastrophic cases, group and class actions, clinical negligence, and disease litigation), health and safety, professional negligence, financial services, commercial, employment, human rights, mediation and civil fraud.
Members of chambers appear in the courts at all levels and their breadth of expertise is clear from the following sample of cases: Thompstone v Tameside & Glossop Acute Services, periodical payments/indexation; RK, European Court breaches of Articles 8 and 13; Willmore + Sienkiewicz, Supreme Court decision on slight/environmental exposure causing mesothelioma; R (on application of AB) v Oldham NHS and Direct Line, PCT funding; Fairchild v Glenhaven, asbestos disease; Tomlinson v Congleton, occupiers’ liability; Wright deceased, inquest and civil claims regarding the Kajaki minefield incident (lack of evacuation helicopters, mine maps and effective training); Sowden v Lodge, local authority funding; Miners Respiratory Claims, the longest running personal injury case on record; PTSD group actions; acted for the claimants in the Hillsborough Disaster Litigation, for both parties in the North Wales Child Abuse Inquiry and for the claimants against the Ministry of Defence; Shipman, counsel to the inquiry and for the registrars; Alder Hey, counsel to the inquiry.
Former members of chambers include Lady Justice Smith, Lord Justice Leveson, Sir David Clarke, Mrs Justice Swift, Mr Justice King, His Honour Judge Stewart QC, Sir Christopher Rose and His Honour Michael Kershaw QC.
Above material supplied by Byrom Street Chambers (Chambers of Raymond Machell QC).