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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.

Barrister Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Andrew Arentsen	Andrew Arentsen’s practice is predominantly personal injury, with a focus on high…	View Profile
	Neil Baki	Neil Baki is a specialist trial advocate. He has extensive experience in…	View Profile
	Nick Blake	Nick Blake has experience of a broad range of civil matters.	View Profile
	Tom Bourne-Arton	Barrister. Specialises in personal injury and employment.	View Profile
	John Brown	Barrister specialising in personal injury, clinical negligence and regulatory/professional discipline.	View Profile
	Howard Cohen	Barrister specialising in personal injury and motor insurance fraud; general common law…	View Profile
	Gordon Cole	Gordon Cole QC specialises in all types of serious crime. He has…	View Profile
	Carwyn Cox	Barrister specialising in personal injury litigation, including high value multi-track catastrophic claims.…	View Profile
	Huw Davies	Huw Davies has a predominantly civil practice and is regularly instructed on…	View Profile
	Michael Dougherty	Barrister specialising in personal injury, commercial, employment and education law.	View Profile
	Lee Evans	Lee Evans has a busy personal injury practice, with particular emphasis on…	View Profile
	Martin Ferguson	Barrister specialising in personal injury, commercial and general common law.	View Profile
	Laura Fitzgibbon	Laura Fitzgibbon joined Farrar’s Building as a tenant in October 2017, upon…	View Profile
	Tim Found	Tim has particular expertise in clinical negligence and personal injury for both…	View Profile
	Robert Golin	Robert Golin’s practice focuses on personal injury, employment, commercial and insurance, and…	View Profile
	Grant Goodlad	Specialist areas of practice include employment law; personal injury and clinical negligence;…	View Profile
	Patrick Harrington	Barrister specialising in Crime (general and serious fraud); prosecution and defence; health…	View Profile
	Joshua Hedgman	Joshua has a broad common law practice, which incorporates all of Chambers’…	View Profile
	Matthew Kerruish-Jones	Coroner’s inquests/public (representing insured parties), Health and safety (defending), personal injury (defendant…	View Profile
	Shabbir Lakha	Has practised almost exclusively in employment law work for over ten years.…	View Profile
	Paul Lewis	Paul  has appeared in over 200 homicide cases and in many major…	View Profile
	Victoria Logue	Victoria Logue (Tory) joined Farrar’s Building in 2017 after 10 years as…	View Profile
	Frederick Lyon	Barrister. Specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Coroner’s Inquests, Commercial and Cross-Jurisdictional…	View Profile
	Joel McMillan	Joel has a busy and successful general common law practice. His particular…	View Profile
	John Meredith-Hardy	Areas of work undertaken for claimants and defendants include professional negligence, personal…	View Profile
	Leslie Millin	Leslie has specialised in employment law since pupillage. She represents both employer…	View Profile
	Aidan O’Brien		View Profile
	Andrew Peebles	Barrister with a wide experience of litigation in chancery, commercial, employment, regulatory…	View Profile
	James Plant	James’ practice consists of three main areas of work: Personal Injury, Property…	View Profile
	James Pretsell	James’s practice consists largely in multi track personal injury work. He also…	View Profile
	Christopher Quinlan	Specialises in crime, sport and regulatory work.	View Profile
	David Roderick	David has an established general common law practice, with particular expertise in…	View Profile
	Jake Rowley	Barrister specialising in personal injury, commercial and general common law. The areas…	View Profile
	James Rozier	James Rozier’s practice encompasses personal injury, costs, inquests and employment. He also…	View Profile
	Peter Savory	Peter is a barrister specialising in personal injury, clinical negligence and commercial…	View Profile
	Hannah Saxena	Hannah Saxena is a well respected junior with a focus on…	View Profile
	Emma Sole	Emma Sole joined Farrar’s Building in 2007 after a pupillage at Littleton…	View Profile
	Nigel Spencer Ley	Nigel is a highly experienced barrister who undertakes high value clinical negligence,…	View Profile
	Ian Unsworth	Ian Unsworth QC has vast experience in dealing with cases of the…	View Profile
	Andrew Wille	Barrister with an exclusively civil practice primarily in the fields of personal…	View Profile
	Geoffrey Williams	Geoffrey Williams QC has specialised exclusively in the field of professional disciplinary…	View Profile