Set Profile > 1GC | Family Law > London, England

Clerks:

Every member of the clerking team at 1GC family Law strives to work together to offer a first class service to clients.

Friendly and approachable clerks room. Good commercial awareness but equally very personable. Paul Harris leads by example and is hard working and honest. Harry Smith and Sam Ditchman are an absolute delight to work with.

Paul Harris and David McDonald in the clerks’ room are very experienced clerks who are extremely user-friendly and could not be more helpful or willing to assist.

Paul Harris is great – as well as being extremely personable you get the impression that he runs a very well organised team of good individuals who know what they are doing and go out of their way to help. David McDonald is very good too in terms of being helpful and reactive to issues.

Paul heads up a fantastic team of clerks. Friendly, efficient and down to earth. They are an absolute pleasure to deal with.

The clerks are always incredibly efficient. I would single out Tiffany Daniels for mention as she is always very on the ball and incredibly helpful, but the whole team is first-class.

The clerks are in my view the best in London. Paul Harris as head clerk and Sam Ditchman, who is my “go to” clerk. Flexible, hard-working, fun to work with, accommodating, commercial.

The clerks of 1GC are particularly helpful, attentive, and always on hand to support.

The senior clerk, Paul Harris, really knows the market and the system, and works very hard to great effect.

The service provided by Paul Harris and David McDonald is excellent. They are always willing to go the extra mile to make sure that a suitable barrister is available.

There is not another senior clerk in the family bar whose judgement I trust in barrister selection more than Paul Harris.

They are on the ball, quick to deliver, efficient and charming. Love the new office. Paul Harris always understands what is needed and always tries hard to deliver – they are a well run set.

Set:

1GC are a top-end set, very efficient, well organised and with first-rate facilities.

1GC are a super strong set. They offer a great lecture program which showcases their talent and is great for client solicitors to learn and network.

1GC are my ‘go to’ set for children cases. They have a great range of barristers who are excellent advocates and equally excellent with the client.

1GC are renowned for their children work, you know when you instruct them that, whoever you instruct, the case will be thoroughly prepared and the client well represented.

1GC are very much one of the best sets for private law children work and they have a wide range of talented barristers from senior silks to new tenants.

1GC Family Law is the top London set for children law. They are an incredibly strong team with no weak links. You know you are in good hands with any barrister in Chambers. The clerks are friendly, expedient, helpful and honest.

1GC is an excellent chambers; its range in both experience and areas of expertise means that there is always someone available to assist.

Extremely strong team with a personality fit for every client. Achieve great results and a pleasure to work with.

Their training programmes are excellent and they have been particularly good at providing online training sessions during the pandemic and lock down.

The chambers are a strong family set – one of the most highly regarded – with very experienced senior silks and good mid range juniors.

We often instruct barristers from 1GC and find that each of the barristers we have worked with have been brilliant and the clerks are extremely helpful. The chambers as a whole is very approachable and we will of course continue to work with them in the future.