Set Profile > 9 Gough Chambers > London, England

Clerks:

As with any good chambers, the clerks are phenomenal. Led by Mike, they have an in-depth knowledge of both the needs of solicitors and the various strengths of their barristers, allowing an ability to apply a perfect match of a barrister to the case. They are always contactable and do everything a solicitor would hope for from a barrister’s clerk.

Michael Goodridge leaps to attention should anything ever be even slightly less than optimal from the solicitors’ point of view. He completely gets customer service.

Ellie Brand is an asset to chambers. She really is at the top of her game.

Excellent – Ellie Brand leads the civil clerking team and is super organised, great with clients and always goes the extra mile to ensure whatever it is that needs doing is done.

Excellent clerking by Ellie Brand and Mike Goodridge and they can both be relied upon.

I have always found all of the clerks to be extremely pleasant and accommodating. However, special mention has to be made regarding Michael Goodridge and Ellie Brand. They go out of their way to help at all times and are extremely efficient with their responses/counsels diary management.

I have always found the clerking team to be good, helpful and accommodating. Michael Goodridge has created a good clerking team with a sound client-friendly focus.

I have known the clerks for many years, in particular Mike Goodridge, who is excellent and never too busy to help.

I have mainly dealt with Ellie Giles clerk and she is extremely quick at responding and organising conference dates etc. I feel she is a great link to counsel and an extremely organised individual. A pleasure to work with.

Jaime Brooks head of the court of protection clerks team has always been fantastic. He goes out of his way to assist and is friendly and engaging. Jaime makes a point of understanding the issues in a case in order to identify the correct counsel for the matter. He also arranges many events to facilitate discussions with counsel so that you can get to know counsel and feel better informed as to counsel’s experience in particular areas.

Jaime Brooks is excellent. Reliable, quick to respond and willing to assist whenever he can. If there’s a problem with availability or a clash in the diary, then he’ll look for a workable solution. Other family clerks in the team aren’t as experienced, but still generally provide a good service.

Michael Goodridge has a well-earned reputation as a formidable clerk. He leads an excellent team, including Ellie Brand and Tom Priest in the fees room. The service from start to finish of a case is excellent.

Michael Goodridge is just brilliant so down to earth so astute and again great to work with Ellie Brand also very professional and easy to work with. During a trial in the Royal Courts of Justice, the clerks were so supportive not only to me as an instructing solicitor but also to the claimant and the family.

Michael Goodridge – Director of Clerking is fantastic. Provides an excellent efficient service, quickly responding to any queries and organising matters in a timely fashion.

Ellie Brand – Excellent and will always deal with any issue thrown at her. Always quick to respond and proactively help in any way she can.

The clerking operation at 9 Gough Chambers is friendly, efficient and well run. Mike Goodridge runs the clerking team superbly and Ellie Brand goes out of her way to accommodate all unusual/short notice requests.

The clerks are also first class. They are very prompt in dealing with matters. Ellie Brand in particular is very helpful.

The clerks are excellent. I believe Jaime Brooks and Thomas Bennett are two of the best clerks I have worked with.

The clerks are helpful and on the whole, instructions are dealt with expeditiously. They will be pragmatic with their approach to fees. So you feel that you are all part of the same team.

The clerk’s room is excellent. Jaime Brooks and Thomas Bennett, are amongst the best family clerks I have worked with. Both Jaime and Thomas have excellent knowledge of the various types of cases and are almost always able to offer cover for my matters. On the rare occasion when the cover is not immediately available, the clerks will make every effort to assist.

They are extremely well clerked by Jaime. He is always extremely organised with the diary and will bend over backwards to get you the counsel you need if at all possible. Billing practices are very efficient.

They have an excellent clerks room run by Michael Goodridge, a true gentleman and businessman. Their Executive Civil Clerk Ellie Brand deserves a mention. She is a true star of the future. great personality, great business acumen and a delight to work with.

Tom and Jaime provide a great service and are personable and friendly clerks. If there is ever an issue, for example, a barrister going part-heard, we are informed immediately and they work exceptionally hard to resolve it.

Set:

9 Gough Chambers are certainly my go-to set and have been for several years now. They are personable and extremely helpful at all times. The clerks are fantastic and do a great job of always making sure someone is available to help. Again, it is always a pleasure working with them.

9 Gough Square is excellent. Strength in depth at both the junior and senior ends. Also very corporate feel administratively. A very slick outfit.

9 Gough Square are one of my go-to sets for Claimant Personal Injury work. They have an extraordinary strength and depth of Counsel who are a match to any claim. I can always rely on chambers to assist.

9 Gough Square chambers are excellent, they offer excellent services they are helpful reliable and go out of their way to accommodate you. They are very friendly and offer excellent services

9 Gough Square have a huge amount of experience in the field of personal injury and will always try to find availability when needed. I find them to be very reliable,

9 Gough Square have a number of excellent Children Law barristers which is reassuring if it is not possible for the same advocate to cover every hearing on a case.

9 Gough Square is a superb common law set. Their criminal team has a number of superb barristers with a broad range of experience, providing reassurance if a brief ever has to be returned.

9 Gough Square remains the set of choice for significant big-ticket Claimant personal injury and clinical negligence cases.

9 Gough Square; there is strength and depth of experience from a catastrophic injury perspective.

9 GS offers an excellent service if a barrister is not available then an alternative of similar standing is suggested.

9GS are a very accommodating set, they have retained key staff which means you know who to go to with queries. They do their best to organise diaries to ensure hearings are covered and get in touch early with any difficulties. They recently ran an interesting court of protection webinar.

A strong set providing expertise in both PI and COP work, giving an ability to support a wide range of our client needs. Very confident barristers with great expertise.

Chambers are very strong public law set. There is strength in depth in these chambers.

The family team is very strong although fairly small. There are benefits of a mixed civil set as some barristers can offer expertise in cases with a cross over, particularly non-accidental injury cases.

Very bright set generally with some outstanding practitioners in the clinical negligence field. They offer training and are very approachable and helpful to their instructing solicitors. There is never a ‘them and us’ feel. Everyone is pulling together. Good clerks and they offer conference facilities for meetings/JSMs when needed.