Set Profile > Farrar's Building > London, England
Farrar's Building Offices
Farrar's Building
TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 7BD
England
Farrar's Building > The Legal 500 Rankings
Fraud: crime
Leading Juniors
Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
Leading Silks
Clinical negligence
Leading Juniors
Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud Tier 4
Farrar's Building has a 'long-established reputation for personal injury work' and offers 'a range of call and experience to suit the case', as well as 'an efficient and well-run clerking service'. Along with very high-value claims, the set also frequently handles matters relating to fundamental dishonesty and other fraudulent matters, and international group actions. Lee Evans regularly acts in catastrophic personal injury cases, with an emphasis on severe brain injuries, serious spinal injuries, and amputation and chronic pain cases. Occupational disease is a key focus for John Meredith-Hardy.
Personal injury - Leading Juniors
Employment
Leading Juniors
Crime (general and fraud)
Through Paul Lewis QC, Farrar's Building continues to enjoy a strong presence in the Wales and Chester Circuit. He represented one of the defendants in an eight-week trial following the murder of Jaskaran Kang, who was stabbed to death in his home after being robbed of cannabis. Also of note, Patrick Harrington QC's 'enthusiasm and work ethic are difficult to match.'
Leading Silks
Personal injury
At Farrar's Building, Nick Blake acts for both claimants and defendants in a range of personal injury cases, with special expertise in employer's liability claims and industrial disease cases. He is praised for his 'great support for solicitors' and 'low-key but dogged approach to remove obstacles to settlements, especially in joint settlement meetings'.
Personal injury
Andrew Arentsen of Farrar's Building has a particular focus on catastrophic, head and spinal in the context of employers' liability, occupiers' liability and road traffic collisions.
Leading Juniors
Set overviews: England and Wales
Farrar's Building is a multidisciplinary set covering the gamut of crime, commercial, and civil work, with particular strength in personal injury matters. In recent good news, Head of Chambers Patrick Harrington QC is recovering following a car accident at the beginning of the year, while Howard Cohen has been appointed a Recorder, sitting in crime on the South Eastern Circuit.Clerks:
Testimonials
Clerks:
Andrew, James and Kraig are all lovely and very easy to speak to. They try and assist wherever they can and will recommend Counsel for you.
Clerks are very approachable and will make Josh available where they can. James Shaw is very good.
Farrars Building are always efficient, particularly Andrew Duckett who answers queries very quickly and goes above and beyond to help.
Most of my dealings have been with James Shaw, Senior Clerk. He is superb and so responsive.
The clerks are always approachable, respond promptly and are able to provide a number of barristers with the appropriate expertise
Kraig Marsh, in particular, is excellent. He is very responsive, is always happy to accommodate my firm’s needs and is very understanding and helpful.
Very organised approachable clerks and receptionists. Andrew always sorts out any problem that may arise.
Set:
Farrars Buildings is a very competent set of Chambers, well able to provide support to us when required.
A small set of high quality barristers who know what they are doing.
Farrar’s Building are the set of Chambers I always use. I find that they extremely knowledgeable and they are able to turn around advices in a good time.
They have a very strong mix of experience. I have always been able to find a Chambers member with genuine expertise in the particular type of case I am sending them.
They are an extremely knowledgeable and pleasant set to work with a range of call and experience to suit the case. I have never struggled with availability, even at the last minute and all are keen to help out.
Set overviews: England and Wales
Farrar's Building is a multidisciplinary set covering the gamut of crime, commercial, and civil work, with particular strength in personal injury matters. In recent good news, Head of Chambers Patrick Harrington QC is recovering following a car accident at the beginning of the year, while Howard Cohen has been appointed a Recorder, sitting in crime on the South Eastern Circuit.Clerks:
Testimonials
Clerks:
Andrew, James and Kraig are all lovely and very easy to speak to. They try and assist wherever they can and will recommend Counsel for you.
Clerks are very approachable and will make Josh available where they can. James Shaw is very good.
Farrars Building are always efficient, particularly Andrew Duckett who answers queries very quickly and goes above and beyond to help.
Most of my dealings have been with James Shaw, Senior Clerk. He is superb and so responsive.
The clerks are always approachable, respond promptly and are able to provide a number of barristers with the appropriate expertise
Kraig Marsh, in particular, is excellent. He is very responsive, is always happy to accommodate my firm’s needs and is very understanding and helpful.
Very organised approachable clerks and receptionists. Andrew always sorts out any problem that may arise.
Set:
Farrars Buildings is a very competent set of Chambers, well able to provide support to us when required.
A small set of high quality barristers who know what they are doing.
Farrar’s Building are the set of Chambers I always use. I find that they extremely knowledgeable and they are able to turn around advices in a good time.
They have a very strong mix of experience. I have always been able to find a Chambers member with genuine expertise in the particular type of case I am sending them.
They are an extremely knowledgeable and pleasant set to work with a range of call and experience to suit the case. I have never struggled with availability, even at the last minute and all are keen to help out.
Regional Bar > Wales and Chester Circuit > Crime (general and fraud)
Through Paul Lewis QC, Farrar's Building continues to enjoy a strong presence in the Wales and Chester Circuit. He represented one of the defendants in an eight-week trial following the murder of Jaskaran Kang, who was stabbed to death in his home after being robbed of cannabis. Also of note, Patrick Harrington QC's 'enthusiasm and work ethic are difficult to match.'
Leading Silks
Regional Bar > Wales and Chester Circuit > Personal injury
Andrew Arentsen of Farrar's Building has a particular focus on catastrophic, head and spinal in the context of employers' liability, occupiers' liability and road traffic collisions.
Leading Juniors
Regional Bar > South Eastern Circuit > Personal injury
At Farrar's Building, Nick Blake acts for both claimants and defendants in a range of personal injury cases, with special expertise in employer's liability claims and industrial disease cases. He is praised for his 'great support for solicitors' and 'low-key but dogged approach to remove obstacles to settlements, especially in joint settlement meetings'.
Regional Bar > Set overviews: England and Wales
Farrar's Building is a multidisciplinary set covering the gamut of crime, commercial, and civil work, with particular strength in personal injury matters. In recent good news, Head of Chambers Patrick Harrington QC is recovering following a car accident at the beginning of the year, while Howard Cohen has been appointed a Recorder, sitting in crime on the South Eastern Circuit.Clerks:
Testimonials
Clerks:
Andrew, James and Kraig are all lovely and very easy to speak to. They try and assist wherever they can and will recommend Counsel for you.
Clerks are very approachable and will make Josh available where they can. James Shaw is very good.
Farrars Building are always efficient, particularly Andrew Duckett who answers queries very quickly and goes above and beyond to help.
Most of my dealings have been with James Shaw, Senior Clerk. He is superb and so responsive.
The clerks are always approachable, respond promptly and are able to provide a number of barristers with the appropriate expertise
Kraig Marsh, in particular, is excellent. He is very responsive, is always happy to accommodate my firm’s needs and is very understanding and helpful.
Very organised approachable clerks and receptionists. Andrew always sorts out any problem that may arise.
Set:
Farrars Buildings is a very competent set of Chambers, well able to provide support to us when required.
A small set of high quality barristers who know what they are doing.
Farrar’s Building are the set of Chambers I always use. I find that they extremely knowledgeable and they are able to turn around advices in a good time.
They have a very strong mix of experience. I have always been able to find a Chambers member with genuine expertise in the particular type of case I am sending them.
They are an extremely knowledgeable and pleasant set to work with a range of call and experience to suit the case. I have never struggled with availability, even at the last minute and all are keen to help out.
Farrar's Building > Set Profile
Farrar’s Building is a long-established specialist civil and common law set of chambers based in London with a strong historic regional presence in Wales.
Chambers areas of practice include the following: personal injury; clinical negligence; employment; credit hire; civil fraud and fundamental dishonesty; serious and white-collar crime; health and safety; inquests; disciplinary; regulatory; professional negligence; insurance; product liability; trusts and probate; commercial law; costs; travel; and public inquiries (see individual profiles).
The set: Farrar’s Building has been occupied by barristers for many centuries and its name derives from Thomas Farrar, treasurer of Inner Temple in 1679. Over the years, chambers has provided a number of judges in the House of Lords, Court of Appeal and elsewhere, and current members sit as deputy High Court judges, recorders and in other public positions.
Farrar’s Building prides itself on being a friendly and reliable set, which is efficiently clerked and administered by an experienced and long-established team.
Chambers has a reputation for excellence, with members acting for a variety of corporate bodies, insurance companies, prosecuting authorities, sporting bodies and players, disciplinary, regulatory and professional bodies, as well as individuals. Members act in privately funded cases and under conditional fee agreements.
Types of work undertaken: Chambers core areas of practice are:
Personal injury: Farrar’s Building is recognised as a leading set of chambers in the personal injury field with a long-established reputation for offering high-quality specialist advocacy and advice in all aspects of personal injury work. Personal injury is the largest field of practice within chambers. Chambers is involved in the whole spectrum of cases ranging from catastrophic brain and spinal injury claims to lower value multi-track and fast-track work.
Health and safety: The health and safety team works closely with, and benefits from, Farrar’s Building’s strong PI team. Chambers has been involved in a number of high-profile cases in this area and has a tradition of acting in large-scale disasters, including the Hatfield Rail Disaster, the Ladbroke Grove Rail Disaster and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
Employment: Chambers and members of the employment law group are recognised in the field for their efficient, commercially sensitive and competitive approach. Members act at all stages of employment disputes by advising, drafting pleadings and providing advocacy before employment tribunals, the EAT and the higher courts. Members also have experience acting in judicial and private mediations.
Regulatory and disciplinary: Farrar’s Building has been heavily involved in the development and administration of disciplinary proceedings over the past 30 years. Chambers provide specialist advice and advocacy across the full range of regulatory and disciplinary law. The depth of knowledge and understanding that the team at Farrar’s Building has to offer comes not only from its members who have experience of appearing before all major disciplinary and regulatory tribunals, but also from those members who regularly advise and chair such panels themselves.
Crime: Chambers has a specialist criminal team, involved in major fraud and serious crime cases, and has close links with Wales where it remains a dominant force on the Welsh Circuit. Chambers is and has been involved in many of the major cases on the circuit and members of the crime team are highly sought-after.
Public inquiries: Chambers has a long history of involvement in public inquiries and of chairing/appearing before a range of regulatory and disciplinary tribunals.
Members of chambers also offer expertise in: contract and commercial litigation, covering areas such as sale of goods and consumer credit and commercial fraud, insurance matters and product liability; clinical negligence and all areas of professional negligence; costs and taxation actions, including solicitor’s bills of costs, counsel’s fees and legal aid costs; sports and competition cases include contracts, advertising and sponsorship and restraint of trade; all aspects of disciplinary and regulatory law; and matters pertaining to trusts and probate.
Members also have experience in administrative and public law work, including matters relating to judicial review, local government, education, health, housing and pharmaceutical actions.
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
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| Chief Executive | Alan Kilbey MBE | ||
| Head of Chambers | LEWIS QC, Paul (1981) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HARRINGTON QC, Patrick (1973) | ||
| Member of Chambers | WILLIAMS QC, Geoffrey (2013) | ||
| Member of Chambers | COLE QC, Gordon (1979) | ||
| Member of Chambers | UNSWORTH QC, Ian (1992) | ||
| Member of Chambers | QUINLAN QC, Christopher (1992) | ||
| Member of Chambers | LEY, Nigel Spencer (1985) | ||
| Member of Chambers | PEEBLES, Andrew (1987) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MILLIN, Leslie (1988) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MEREDITH-HARDY, John (1989) | ||
| Member of Chambers | LAKHA, Shabbir (1989) | ||
| Member of Chambers | ARENTSEN, Andrew (1995) | ||
| Member of Chambers | EVANS, Lee (1996) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BLAKE, Nick (1997) | ||
| Member of Chambers | DAVIES, Huw P (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | PRETSELL, James (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | WILLE, Andrew (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | COHEN, Howard (1999) | ||
| Member of Chambers | COX, Carwyn (2002) | ||
| Member of Chambers | KERRUISH-JONES, Matthew (2003) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BAKI, Neil (2003) | ||
| Member of Chambers | PLANT, James (2004) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BOURNE-ARTON, Tom (2005) | ||
| Member of Chambers | SOLE, Emma (2005) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BROWN, John (2005) | ||
| Member of Chambers | GOODLAD, Grant (2006) | ||
| Member of Chambers | FOUND, Tim (2006) | ||
| Member of Chambers | RODERICK, David (2005) | ||
| Member of Chambers | LOGUE, Victoria (Tory) (2005) | ||
| Member of Chambers | ROZIER, James (2007) | ||
| Member of Chambers | SAXENA, Hannah (2010) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HEDGMAN, Joshua (2011) | ||
| Member of Chambers | O'BRIEN, Aidan (2011) | ||
| Member of Chambers | GOLIN, Robert (2011) | ||
| Member of Chambers | ROWLEY, Jake (2011) | ||
| Member of Chambers | LYON, Frederick (2012) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BRADY, Stuart (2012) | ||
| Member of Chambers | McMILLAN, Joel (2014) | ||
| Member of Chambers | FITZGIBBON, Laura (2016) | ||
| Member of Chambers | EMSLIE-SMITH, Tom (2016) | ||
| Member of Chambers | FERGUSON, Martin (2016) | ||
| Member of Chambers | YOUNG, Rosalind (2017) | ||
| Member of Chambers | DOUGHERTY, Michael (2017) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HIGHNAM, Amelia (2016) | ||
| Member of Chambers | SAVORY, Peter (2018) | ||
| Member of Chambers | WIGG, Leonard (2017) | ||
| Member of Chambers | JONES, Lauren (2017) | ||
| Member of Chambers | KHAN, Kamran (2018) | ||
| Member of Chambers | ROSS, Ryan (2019) | ||
| Member of Chambers | IRVING, Sam (2020) | ||
| Member of Chambers | DERVIN, Sorcha (2021) |
Barrister Profiles
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Andrew Arentsen | Andrew Arentsen’s practice is predominantly personal injury, with a focus on high… | View Profile |
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Neil Baki | Neil Baki is a specialist trial advocate. He has extensive experience in… | View Profile |
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Nick Blake | Nick Blake has experience of a broad range of civil matters. | View Profile |
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Tom Bourne-Arton | Barrister. Specialises in personal injury and employment. | View Profile |
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John Brown | Barrister specialising in personal injury, clinical negligence and regulatory/professional discipline. | View Profile |
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Howard Cohen | Barrister specialising in personal injury and motor insurance fraud; general common law… | View Profile |
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Gordon Cole | Gordon Cole QC specialises in all types of serious crime. He has… | View Profile |
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Carwyn Cox | Barrister specialising in personal injury litigation, including high value multi-track catastrophic claims.… | View Profile |
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Huw Davies | Huw Davies has a predominantly civil practice and is regularly instructed on… | View Profile |
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Michael Dougherty | Barrister specialising in personal injury, commercial, employment and education law. | View Profile |
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Lee Evans | Lee Evans has a busy personal injury practice, with particular emphasis on… | View Profile |
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Martin Ferguson | Barrister specialising in personal injury, commercial and general common law. | View Profile |
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Laura Fitzgibbon | Laura Fitzgibbon joined Farrar’s Building as a tenant in October 2017, upon… | View Profile |
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Tim Found | Tim has particular expertise in clinical negligence and personal injury for both… | View Profile |
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Robert Golin | Robert Golin’s practice focuses on personal injury, employment, commercial and insurance, and… | View Profile |
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Grant Goodlad | Specialist areas of practice include employment law; personal injury and clinical negligence;… | View Profile |
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Patrick Harrington | Barrister specialising in Crime (general and serious fraud); prosecution and defence; health… | View Profile |
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Joshua Hedgman | Joshua has a broad common law practice, which incorporates all of Chambers’… | View Profile |
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Matthew Kerruish-Jones | Coroner’s inquests/public (representing insured parties), Health and safety (defending), personal injury (defendant… | View Profile |
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Shabbir Lakha | Has practised almost exclusively in employment law work for over ten years.… | View Profile |
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Paul Lewis | Paul has appeared in over 200 homicide cases and in many major… | View Profile |
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Victoria Logue | Victoria Logue (Tory) joined Farrar’s Building in 2017 after 10 years as… | View Profile |
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Frederick Lyon | Barrister. Specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Coroner’s Inquests, Commercial and Cross-Jurisdictional… | View Profile |
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Joel McMillan | Joel has a busy and successful general common law practice. His particular… | View Profile |
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John Meredith-Hardy | Areas of work undertaken for claimants and defendants include professional negligence, personal… | View Profile |
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Leslie Millin | Leslie has specialised in employment law since pupillage. She represents both employer… | View Profile |
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Aidan O’Brien | View Profile | |
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Andrew Peebles | Barrister with a wide experience of litigation in chancery, commercial, employment, regulatory… | View Profile |
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James Plant | James’ practice consists of three main areas of work: Personal Injury, Property… | View Profile |
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James Pretsell | James’s practice consists largely in multi track personal injury work. He also… | View Profile |
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Christopher Quinlan | Specialises in crime, sport and regulatory work. | View Profile |
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David Roderick | David has an established general common law practice, with particular expertise in… | View Profile |
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Jake Rowley | Barrister specialising in personal injury, commercial and general common law. The areas… | View Profile |
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James Rozier | James Rozier’s practice encompasses personal injury, costs, inquests and employment. He also… | View Profile |
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Peter Savory | Peter is a barrister specialising in personal injury, clinical negligence and commercial… | View Profile |
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Hannah Saxena | Hannah Saxena is a well respected junior with a focus on… | View Profile |
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Emma Sole | Emma Sole joined Farrar’s Building in 2007 after a pupillage at Littleton… | View Profile |
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Nigel Spencer Ley | Nigel is a highly experienced barrister who undertakes high value clinical negligence,… | View Profile |
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Ian Unsworth | Ian Unsworth QC has vast experience in dealing with cases of the… | View Profile |
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Andrew Wille | Barrister with an exclusively civil practice primarily in the fields of personal… | View Profile |
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Geoffrey Williams | Geoffrey Williams QC has specialised exclusively in the field of professional disciplinary… | View Profile |
Staff Figures
:Top Tier Set Rankings
Set Rankings
- London Bar Fraud: crime
- London Bar Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
- London Bar Clinical negligence
- London Bar Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
- London Bar Employment
- Regional Bar Crime (general and fraud)
- Regional Bar Personal injury
- Regional Bar Personal injury
- Regional Bar Set overviews: England and Wales
- London Bar Set overviews: England and Wales