Clerks:

All very approachable and accommodating, including out of hours. Paul Venables is a pleasure to deal with

Clerks are always very responsive, and flexible in ensuring Counsel’s availability, often at short notice

Extremely responsive and helpful. Paul Venables is a genuinely charming and friendly clerk with lots of personality.

I am generally impressed with the clerks’ room. Alison Scanes is an excellent Practice Manager – friendly, approachable and amenable. Chris Beard is also helpful and responsive.

I have been assisted a number of times by Mr. Frankie Penton, whom I have always found to be very responsive and eager to help.

Paul Venables is an outstanding clerk. Elizabeth Bousher is exceptional.

The practice management staff are very friendly and attentive. Alison Scanes in particular is hard-working but always personable and able to help out. Chris Beard and George Hack are also highly attentive, straightforward and helpful. The springtime drinks and summer parties are always enjoyable and well put together.

The clerks are more pragmatic and commercial than we find at other sets. they will take into account client issues and are generally willing to work with you particularly as price is becoming more of an issue.

The clerks are very professional and far exceed expectation and the offerings provided by other sets in this field. They are always willing to assist wherever they can and Paul Venables is a key part of the team and chambers’ success.

The clerks at Matrix are always extremely helpful and friendly, and go out of their way to ensure everything runs smoothly.

Simon Gardner deserves a particular mention. He is fantastic and a real pleasure to work with. He is responsive, reliable, organised and personable.

Simon Gardner is beyond doubt one of the best clerks I have ever worked with.

The clerks at Matrix Chambers are always very professional and helpful. Paul Venables in particular has been most accommodating and provides a prompt and reliable service.

The clerks have always been proactive and helpful. Paul Venables is very willing an responsive, and has a very good understanding of international clients.

The Matrix practice team do a great job. Alison Scanes is doing very well leading her team. They are happy to work with solicitors to meet the underlying client’s needs.

I would mark Matt Leitch out in the crime team as a star to work with. He is very bright and supremely efficient. He will go very far indeed!

The clerks offer an exceptional service, willing to assist in arranging conferences, punctual, friendly and prompt provision of fee notes.

The Matrix practice team do a great job. Alison Scanes is doing very well leading her team. They are happy to work with solicitors to meet the underlying client’s needs.

The service of the clerks is first rate. They are attentive, willing to negotiate fairly on fees and will always go above and beyond to find solutions. They encourage introductions, are always hospitable and work well with solicitors. Paul Venables leads an extremely strong and well-connected team and is well supported by Matthew Leitch and Rhian Hiscocks. they assisted us greatly during XR protests.

Paul Venables is my favourite clerk in the city. A genuinely nice person who excels in their role.

Alison Scanes, is always on hand to talk through potential instructions and to suggest the most appropriate barrister for a particular instruction. Alison is also happy to provide flexibility across the board (on a case-by-case basis); more often than not can accommodate clients’ requirements.

The clerking team is superb and the chambers has a modern and inclusive ethos.

Set:

A fantastic all round set in privacy, defamation and GDPR.

An array of competence with a variety of user-styles to suit all cases and clients. Best collection of barristers in London by far.

Chambers are pro-active in contacting us about their activities and services.

Chambers is well known for having the very best barristers in this field. They have strength at the absolute top end and also at the junior end.

Matrix are a fantastic set. Always the go to place with a difficult case which crosses over a number of disciplines.

Matrix are a stellar set and provide excellent representation to clients as well as support to solicitors through excellent training. Their members cover all areas that would be relevant to this area of work.

Matrix are a very reliable set who always give top quality advice. Their QCs provide excellent input – short and to the point.

Matrix chambers are one of the pre-eminent fraud sets in the country with an impressive array of QCs and juniors who regularly act in high-profile and complex cases. Particularly at the top end of members, you always have confidence that they will be able to provide counsel who bring not only criminal expertise, but commercial nous, to a case which is especially relevant when dealing with corporate fraud and bribery matters.

Matrix has a very strong reputation in the field of extradition.

Matrix has always been proud to do things differently, whilst always maintaining quality and professionalism. Of all the sets I work with, Matrix is by far my favourite.

Matrix have a great range of lawyers; I feel in very safe hands with Matrix

Matrix have a stellar range of exceptional, experienced, juniors and top-level silks.

Matrix have a strong privacy and data protection team, and I would happily instruct (and do) a number of their more claimant friendly barristers. I particularly favour Matrix when there are more complex issues, such as an overlap with public law. They offer an excellent series of seminars / roundtable events, which double as useful networking events. The size of the team means there is usually one of our preferred choices available

Matrix is a class act, a vast array of superb barristers who are all at top of their field.

A very good set in the field of immigration, asylum and Human Rights work generally. The roundtable seminars are good.

Influential, high-calibre set. The barristers at Matrix are highly sought after for their expertise and skills. They give any case a high level of attention.

Matrix is a class act, across the board. They attract bright and dedicated lawyers so, at every level you have confidence in those offered to you and those you instruct. Their breadth of experience in criminal law , extradition, media law and civil liberties means they have insight and experience which is invaluable. If counsel of choice is not available, you always know the “substitute” will be excellent as they have strength in depth across the board of all criminal and appellate work. Their training programmes, especially on appeals and extradition are of an extremely high standard.

Matrix is a great chambers to work with. The clerks are friendly and approachable and the counsel are all excellent.

Matrix is now my go-to-firm for “challenger” competition cases. They have proven to be very flexible and commercial. Very soon they will be challenging the big three sets.

Matrix is one of the media law “super sets”.

Matrix’s media law team continues to get stronger. Chris Beard is an exceptional clerk. They organise claimant roundtable seminars, which are very popular and useful. They have also published a book on online publication claims.

Matrix have a strong privacy and data protection team, and I would happily instruct (and do) a number of their more claimant friendly barristers. I particularly favour Matrix when there are more complex issues, such as an overlap with public law. They offer an excellent series of seminars/roundtable events, which double as useful networking events. The size of the team means there is usually one of our preferred choices available.

One of the best employment sets and certainly the best for reliability, value for money, client service and consistent quality.

The Chambers staff have been very professional and helpful throughout.

The Chambers was very professional and well-run, and the clerks were highly engaged and accommodating.

The practice management staff are very friendly and attentive.

The support staff at Matrix Chambers are very helpful and friendly and the calibre of barristers both at the senior and junior level is exceptional.

Very strong set of practitioners at the top of their game covering a wide range of disciplines.

Very well administered, and with a good system for ensuring that an urgent case will be well attended to. Very responsive.

We have used the chambers for a number of matters and have been favourably impressed by the quality and depth of talent.