Set Profile > Chambers of Jacob Levy QC > London , England
Chambers of Jacob Levy QC Offices
9 Gough Square
LONDON
EC4A 3DG
England
Chambers of Jacob Levy QC > The Legal 500 Rankings
Crime Tier 1
Tom Little QC - 9 Gough Square ‘ A stylish and well-prepared advocate who pays great attention to detail. ’Fraud: crime Tier 1
Tom Little QC - 9 Gough Square ‘ A a real team player and leaves no stone unturned. ’Travel law (including jurisdictional issues) Tier 1
Giles Mooney QC - 9 Gough Square ‘ He is experienced in handling complex cases involving accidents at sea. ’Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud Tier 1
The 'professional yet approachable' 9 Gough Square has 'successfully attracted barristers who are exceptionally good'. As well as 'established silks', the set has a 'remarkable team of leading juniors' who are 'cutting edge' and 'not afraid of taking difficult cases to trial'. Claimant catastrophic injury is at the core of the practice, with expertise spanning brain, spinal, and amputation cases. Giles Mooney QC is a recent silk appointment. Andrew Ritchie QC acted for the claimants in Carlos Valencia Estrada & Seb John v BP, a claim in relation to two fatalities arising from the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the defendant's gas facility in Algeria. Grahame Aldous QC specialises in personal injury claims with an international or maritime setting, while Laura Begley has particular expertise in criminal injuries compensation claims.
Industrial disease - Leading Juniors
Personal injury - 2018 Silks
Personal injury - 2019 Silks
Personal injury - Leading Juniors
Personal injury - Leading Silks
Police law (defendant) Tier 2
Edwin Buckett - 9 Gough Square ‘ Well known for representing police forces in disciplinary matters. ’Travel law (including jurisdictional issues) Tier 2
Grahame Aldous QC - 9 Gough Square ‘ Extremely thorough and has a very good manner with clients. ’Clinical negligence Tier 3
9 Gough Square is a 'good set of chambers with a range of strengths' and 'sound medical knowledge'. High-value birth injury, spinal surgery, fertility treatment and sterilisation claims are all areas of expertise for its barristers, who are also experienced in dealing with genetic issues and delayed cancer diagnosis cases. Grahame Aldous QC and Stuart McKechnie QC reached a multi-million pound settlement, following a Court of Appeal decision (EXP v Barker) concerning allegations of bias on the part of experts, on behalf of a district judge who suffered a disabling stroke after a failure to identify and treat a cranial aneurysm.
2018 Silks
2019 Silks
Leading Juniors
Leading Silks
Fraud: crime Tier 3
James Thacker - 9 Gough Square ‘ A very robust advocate who knows when to pick his fights. ’Travel law (including jurisdictional issues) Tier 3
Linda Nelson - 9 Gough Square ‘ She is a marine specialist; very intelligent, approachable, reliable and quick to grasp the issues. ’Crime Tier 3
James Thacker - 9 Gough Square ‘ A very robust advocate who knows when to pick his fights. ’Court of Protection and community care Tier 3
Edward Lamb - 9 Gough Square ‘ An always well prepared junior. ’Crime Tier 3
Claire Harden-Frost - 9 Gough Square ‘ Tough and empathetic, which makes her counsel of choice for the most sensitive cases. ’Children law (including public and private law) Tier 4
9 Gough Square is 'a hardworking set' with 'an excellent choice of barristers and pupils who understand the demands of public law work' and 'provide consistently good results and advice'. Members routinely advise on a myriad of issues from radicalisation through to sexual abuse cases. In addition, they represent parents in disputes over children arrangements.
Leading Juniors
Health and safety Tier 4
Claire Harden-Frost - 9 Gough Square ‘ Her calm demeanour and natural authority make her a formidable opponent. ’Set overviews: England and Wales
9 Gough Square has ‘successfully attracted barristers who are exceptionally good and yet truly approachable’. The set is well recognised for personal injury work and have a varied mixture of experience – both claimant and defendant – has several clinic negligence experts, and has ‘a good selection of criminal practitioners at all levels’. In recent news, Jacob Levy has assumed the role of head of chambers, Giles Mooney took silk in 2019, and Max Melsa joined from 2 Dr Johnson’s Buildings. The overall ethos of the set extends into ‘the most proficient clerking team in the business’. Director of clerking and business development Michael Goodridge is ‘an absolute asset to chambers’ as he ‘encompasses all the qualities that other sets’ senior clerks seemingly lack – he truly stands apart as a moderniser; he is also the most capable of all the senior clerks, and appreciates the commercial matrix facing the firms who instruct the set’. A ‘rising star’, executive civil clerk Ellie Brand is ‘really carving out a great reputation’ for herself for being ‘hardworking and organised’. ‘Excellent’ junior executive civil clerk Philip Austin has arrived from 12 King's Bench Walk. Gordon Walters is the new director of operations following the departure of John Irving and consultant clerk Garry Farrow has left chambers after 43 years of service. Offices in: London
Chambers of Jacob Levy QC > Firm Profile
9 Gough Square is a leading common law set based in London but appearing in courts throughout England and Wales and abroad. The key practice areas are personal injury, clinical negligence, professional negligence, fraud and serious crime, family, police law, professional disciplinary proceedings and commercial litigation.
The set: The set consists of 74 members, including eight silks. Its clinical negligence and personal injury specialists take active involvement in the Personal Injuries Bar Association and APIL, and appear in very high-profile cases, for instance Corr v IBC, Simmons v Castle, Gosling v Screwfix and EXP v Barker. Members of chambers have also been involved with many successful multimillion-pound claims in the last 12 months. They are involved in editing the leading text books in personal injuries including Kemp & Kemp on Quantum and publish their own range of clinical negligence and personal injuries books. The family team has published a book focusing on the Public Law Outline, with a second edition released in 2015.
9 Gough Square’s solicitor clients include many of the highest profile specialised personal injury and clinical negligence firms in England and Wales, local authorities, the government legal department, the Serious Fraud Office, HMRC, police solicitors and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Its barristers deliver advice and advocacy in a professional and approachable manner that fits well with professional clients’ objectives and provide in-house and external CPD training to solicitors around England and Wales.
Alongside dedication to client service and a friendly and proactive approach, there are several areas that make this set unique; the set has continued to embrace change in the provision of criminal court advocacy by successfully building up a highly respected serious fraud practice with success in high-profile cases such as SFO LIBOR prosecutions; the set has a large number of senior and mid-level juniors with leading quality practices.
Types of work undertaken: The largest group specialises in personal injury and clinical negligence. Leaders and senior juniors appear regularly in ground-breaking cases. The members mainly represent injured claimants, but some do a high volume of defendant work. This team is arranged into special interest sub-groups covering abuse claims, Animals Act, asbestos disease work, catastrophic injuries, CICA, Court of Protection, costs, employers’ liability, industrial disease, marine accidents, MIB, occupiers’ liability, product liability, road traffic accidents, travel and foreign claims, and sports law. The set publishes a series of PI books including: asbestos claims, clinical negligence claims, manual handling claims, workplace accident claims and work accidents at sea.
Complex fraud work is undertaken by the criminal team for the SFO, the FCA, BERR and the CPS Fraud Unit. Criminal work also covers terrorism, murder, violent and sexual offences with an emphasis on prosecution work for most London Crown Prosecution offices. In addition, a number of members of the criminal team are regularly in the High Court in judicial review cases such as Denby-Collins (the human rights challenge to burglars being killed by homeowners), as well as appearing in the Supreme Court of Appeal on matters of general public importance such as R v Hunter & ors.
The family team has 24 members and is particularly popular with local government solicitors, having preferred set status with most Greater London authorities. Members are instructed in high-profile non-accidental injury, sexual abuse cases and appear in all types of public law children cases, including applications for judicial review. Meanwhile the team has a flourishing private client practice in financial remedies, trust for land claims, contact and residence disputes, and removals from the jurisdiction.
The highly regarded specialist police law practitioners are involved in civil actions against the police, inquests (such as the Diana Princess of Wales inquest), and every type of police-led application, disciplinary proceedings, firearms and liquor licensing.
The commercial and property group has expertise ranging from general commercial contract litigation and arbitration, to sale of goods, consumer credit and leasing agreements, property work and insurance law. The professional negligence group focuses on solicitors’, surveyors’ and accountants’ negligence. The highly regarded employment and discrimination law team represents employees and employers in tribunals all around England and Wales.
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
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| Director of Operations | Gordon Walters | ||
| Head of Chambers | LEVY QC, Jacob (1986) | ||
| Member of Chambers | FOY QC, John (1969) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BAILLIE QC, Andrew (1970) | ||
| Member of Chambers | ALDOUS QC, Grahame (1979) | ||
| Member of Chambers | RITCHIE QC, Andrew (1985) | ||
| Member of Chambers | LITTLE QC, Tom (1997) | ||
| Member of Chambers | McKECHNIE QC, Stuart (1997) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MOONEY QC, Giles (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | WILSON, Christopher (1980) | ||
| Member of Chambers | PINFOLD, Martin (1981) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HILLIER, Nicolas (1982) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HIORNS, Roger (1983) | ||
| Member of Chambers | NAIK, Gaurang (1985) | ||
| Member of Chambers | WILLIAMS, Vincent (1985) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BUCKETT, Edwin (1988) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HOLMES-MILNER, James (1989) | ||
| Member of Chambers | GLYNN, Stephen (1990) | ||
| Member of Chambers | KATRAK, Cyrus (1991) | ||
| Member of Chambers | CROWTHER, Jeremy (1991) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BEGLEY, Laura (1993) | ||
| Member of Chambers | STEPHENSON, Christopher (1994) | ||
| Member of Chambers | PARKER, Timothy (1995) | ||
| Member of Chambers | ELFIELD, Laura (1996) | ||
| Member of Chambers | FORD, Jeremy (1996) | ||
| Member of Chambers | VINDIS, Tara (1996) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BUTLER, Simon (1996) | ||
| Member of Chambers | PAYNE, Jonathan (1997) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MCCRACKEN, Jamie (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | GIBBONS, Perrin (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BRINDLE, Simon (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BARRAN, Tabitha (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HORNER, Robert (1999) | ||
| Member of Chambers | DAWSON, Adam (2000) | ||
| Member of Chambers | NELSON, Linda (2000) | ||
| Member of Chambers | SHARGHY, Shahram (2000) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HARDEN-FROST, Claire (2000) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MUNDAY, Gareth (2000) | ||
| Member of Chambers | TAUSSIG, Gurion (2001) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MAWREY, Eleanor (2001) | ||
| Member of Chambers | THACKER, James (2001) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HARTSHORN, Sabrina (2001) | ||
| Member of Chambers | TREGIDGO, Marc (2002) | ||
| Member of Chambers | McALLISTER, Robert (2002) | ||
| Member of Chambers | POUNDER, Esther (2003) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MILLINGTON, Oliver (2003) | ||
| Member of Chambers | RIMMER, Hugh (2003) | ||
| Member of Chambers | VERITY, Emily (2003) | ||
| Member of Chambers | STAMP, Abigail (2004) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MACLACHLAN, Esther (2005) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HOGARTH, Alastair (2005) | ||
| Member of Chambers | NEWCOMB, Jennifer (2006) | ||
| Member of Chambers | LAMB, Edward (2006) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BYRNE, James (2006) | ||
| Member of Chambers | ATKINSON, Catherine (2006) | ||
| Member of Chambers | RODGERS, Ben (2007) | ||
| Member of Chambers | OBORNE, Jennifer | ||
| Member of Chambers | DYKE, Thom (2007) | ||
| Member of Chambers | LAMONT, Kate (2007) | ||
| Member of Chambers | RESTALL, Tom (2007) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BUMPUS, Laura (2008) | ||
| Member of Chambers | TIBBITTS, Holly (2010) | ||
| Member of Chambers | ZURAWEL, Ben (2010) | ||
| Member of Chambers | RAINSBURY, Tom (2010) | ||
| Member of Chambers | DEAN, William (2011) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HUNWICK, Sarah (2011) | ||
| Member of Chambers | POOLEY, Helen (2012) | ||
| Member of Chambers | COLEMAN, Kieran (2012) | ||
| Member of Chambers | PARTOS, Natasha (2012) | ||
| Member of Chambers | SCHMITT, John (2013) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HIBBERD, Laura (2013) | ||
| Member of Chambers | STEVENS, Elizabeth (2015) | ||
| Member of Chambers | JONES, Thomas (2015) | ||
| Member of Chambers | MUFTI, Kyah (2016) | ||
| Member of Chambers | RICHARDS, Jake (2017) |
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