Chambers of Simon Russell Flint QC
LONDON, WC2R 3AA, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7413 0353
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7413 0374
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- 148 LONDON CHANCERY LANE
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- www.23es.com
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23 Essex Street is a modern, innovative, approachable set of barristers, with a leading reputation in the fields of crime, fraud and a range of regulatory and disciplinary matters.
The set: Chambers has a genuine commitment to teamwork, supported by both its formal training programme and its culture, which ensures important recent experience is shared across chambers. This experience is broad, with members of chambers undertaking the entire range of mainstream criminal law, as well as associated regulatory and civil work. Within this, chambers has set up a number of specialist teams, offering a strong portfolio of barristers who are effective at all levels, to harness and develop expertise in certain niche practice areas.
Members regularly appear in high-profile cases across London and the South East, the Midlands, North East and North West, both prosecuting and defending, and are supported by a motivated clerking team that are committed to delivering a first-class service to clients and members alike.
23 Essex Street is also a recognised leader in the field of legal training, running its own accredited continuing education seminars.
Types of work undertaken: All crime, fraud and financial crime, and regulatory and professional discipline work. Specialist teams: corporate and financial regulatory, police civil actions, healthcare discipline, police discipline, environmental crime, IP crime and trading standards. Chambers also undertakes courts martial, inquests and tribunals, prison law, public inquiries and direct access work.
Members of chambers are involved in all stages of education and training at the bar, and have provided chairmen of the Criminal Bar Association, a leader of the South Eastern Circuit and a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee. Members also include the author of Archbold and Criminal Law Week, the general editor of the Lloyds Law Report: Financial Crime, and an editor of the Criminal Appeal Reports. Chambers has also been commended in the FT’s Innovative Lawyer Awards.
Tenancy: applications to Alan Kent QC. Pupillage: chambers offer two funded 12-month pupillages of £25,000. Travel allowances are available. The set is a member of OLPAS. Full details are published in the Bar Council’s Chambers Pupillages and Awards Handbook on the website. Mini-pupillages: a limited number are available. Applications to Hamish Common.
Annexe: 82 Kings Street, Manchester M2 4WQ. Phone: 0161 870 9969
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