Chambers of Stephen Lowne
1 OXFORD STREET, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 5BH, ENGLANDWhat we say about the set's legal practice in Regional Bar
Midland Circuit
Within Chancery, commercial, insolvency and banking,
KCH Garden Square’s James Howlett has a wide-ranging chancery and commercial practice, and has ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of land law and related issues’.
Within Crime,
KCH Garden Square’s Caroline Bradley and Julie Warburton are recommended for serious violence and rape cases. Mark Van Der Zwart has a ‘robust, but fair, cross-examination technique’, and Ian Way is ‘particularly good with clients who have mental health issues, and, indeed, with difficult clients’. Clients also have no hesitation in using Michael Cranmer-Brown in child murder and rape cases without a silk’
Within Family,
KCH Garden Square’s Pami Dhadli is ‘always fully prepared, has a thorough understanding of all of the issues in the case, and is imperious when dealing with (often) massive volumes of paperwork’.
Within Overview, KCH Garden Square (Chambers of Stephen Lowne) is a third tier firm,
The leading sets in Birmingham are St Philips Chambers, which is a ‘commercially astute set’ with clerks who are ‘phenomenal at securing the barrister clients wish to instruct’; and No5 Chambers, which is the ‘number-one set’ for personal injury matters and has an outstanding planning and environmental team. St Ive’s Chambers is the preeminent family and housing law set on circuit; 1 High Pavement houses strong criminal law practitioners; and Cornwall Street Chambers’ family team is well respected. In Nottingham, the civil and chancery Ropewalk Chambers, which is an ‘excellent set’ that is ‘underpinned by the excellence of its clerks and solid administrative support’, has recently moved into state-of-the-art premises. KCH Garden Square has merged with a local Leicester set, taking the set’s head count to over 60. St Mary’s Chambers remains a prominent family law set.
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