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Radcliffe Chambers

Chambers of Hedley Marten

11 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3QB, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7831 0081
Fax:
Fax 020 7405 2560
DX:
319 LONDON CHANCERY LANE
Web:
www.radcliffechambers.com
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Radcliffe Chambers is one of the largest commercial Chancery chambers in the country. It has 48 barristers, including four Queen’s Counsel, with over 90 recommendations in previous editions of The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories, covering the principal areas of commercial and Chancery law.

The set: The achievements of individual members have been recognised in recent years in The Lawyer’s Hot 100, the STEP Private Client Awards and The Lawyer Awards. Radcliffe Chambers was a recent winner of the Client Service Set of the Year Award at the Chambers and Partners Bar Awards, and was shortlisted again for the award in 2010.

Chambers has a dedicated and experienced staff led by two senior clerks and a director of client care and marketing; they all help to provide the very best service for its clients, whether they are law firms in the UK or offshore; in-house lawyers; government departments; financial and other institutions; local authorities; or professional or public direct access clients.

A previous edition of The Legal 500 notes that Radcliffe Chambers provides ‘what all solicitors want from a set of chambers: good value, good advice and good service’.

Types of work undertaken: Its barristers practise in the fields of banking and financial services; charities; company and commercial; consumer credit and mortgages; insolvency; pensions; planning, environment and local government; professional negligence; property; and trusts and estates, as well as a number of other specialist areas. It provides advice in contentious and non-contentious matters within these and associated areas of work, and members appear as advocates before all levels of courts and tribunals.

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