Chambers of Mark Turner QC
24 ST JOHN STREET, MANCHESTER, M3 4DF, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 0161 214 6000
- Fax:
- Fax 0161 214 6001
- DX:
- 718155 MANCHESTER
- Web:
- www.deanscourt.co.uk
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Deans Court Chambers is a forward-looking set of chambers with a membership of 81 barristers, including eleven Queen’s Counsel.
The set: Chambers has a reputation for the highest standards of professionalism, service and response to clients’ needs. Deans Court Chambers offers specialist advocacy, advisory and drafting expertise at every level of seniority.
Purpose-designed premises at 24 St John Street enhance the range of services offered to clients. Members of chambers (and others) use the well-equipped seminar suite to deliver lectures and seminars on current topics. Facilities for arbitration, mediation and video conferencing are available. Members of chambers have instant access to the major electronic databases.
Types of work undertaken: Civil litigation: the whole range of personal injury, including injuries of the utmost severity (eg spinal injuries, head injuries), class actions, industrial disease, fraudulent claims, road traffic and factory accidents. Professional negligence (especially medical, lawyers, surveyors, architects), insurance (coverage litigation, Road Traffic Act and Motor Insurers’ Bureau), contractual disputes, sale of goods, consumer credit (including credit hire), product liability, arbitration (domestic and international), technology and construction, human rights, false imprisonment. In this field, Deans Court Chambers offers strength in depth unrivalled in the North West.
Chancery and commercial: commercial arbitration, banking, carriage of goods, civil fraud and tracing of assets, corporate and personal insolvency, company law (including shareholders’ disputes and the protection of minority interest, directors’ duties and disqualification), credit and leasing, financial services, injunctions and equitable remedies, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, landlord and tenant, mortgages, partnerships, pensions, probate, real property, sale of goods (domestic and international), trusts, settlements and wills.
Family: recent recruitment has further enhanced the family team. Matrimonial finance (distribution of assets on separation, divorce and between co-habitees, injunctive relief, preservation of assets and inter-jurisdictional disputes). Children (care proceedings, residence and contact, inter-jurisdictional disputes, international child abduction, adoption). Civil partnerships. Capacity and competence (mental health, declaratory relief). Public and administrative (judicial review, tribunals of inquiry, social and healthcare ethics, policy, practice and procedure). Education and special educational needs. Inheritance Act claims. Professional negligence. Mediation.
Criminal: prosecution and defence work in all fields and at every level, including homicide and sexual offences, commercial fraud, conspiracy, drug importation and supply, Excise and Revenue offences, health and safety. Senior and junior members of Chambers conduct high-profile trials both locally and nationally.
Business crime and regulatory: advice on compliance with regulation at all stages, advice and advocacy services in criminal prosecutions under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and other legislation (members of Chambers are regularly instructed by insurance companies, self-employed persons and company directors), corporate manslaughter, trading standards, food safety, environmental prosecutions and DEFRA prosecutions.
Above material supplied by Deans Court Chambers (Chambers of Mark Turner QC).