Fay Baker
Fay is a very approachable senior junior, with over 20 years experience at the family bar.
2DRJ
England
Barristers
Simon Blackford
Simon specialises in criminal prosecutions including non-regulatory work.
Daniel Bunting
Dan practices in all areas of Criminal Law and has appeared in all courts from Magistrates’ and Youth Courts, the Crown Court and Divisional Court and Court of Appeal.
Jean-Jack Chalmers
Jean-Jack benefits from having practised in family, regulatory and criminal law. This background has provided a solid foundation of knowledge, expertise, and skills.
Jasbinder Chopra
Jas is a registered Qualified Legal Representative and has assisted the court by conducting cross examination on behalf of both prohibited and protected parties following court appointment
Rossano Cifonelli
Rossano’s practice now focuses on the areas of contract law, property disputes, (including actions under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996) employment law and sports law.
Simon Collingham
Simon is a highly regarded road traffic specialist. He has considerable knowledge of Road Traffic Law complemented by a unique practicable experience in this area.
Peter Dahlsen
Peter is a powerful and highly persuasive trial advocate. Peter’s trial work includes murder, attempted murder and manslaughter as leading junior, junior and sole counsel.
Joe Davidson
Joe has built a busy Crown Court practice and focuses increasingly on defending. His regular instructions for trial include allegations of serious offences against the person, major drugs conspiracies, weapons/firearms cases and sexual violence.
Manjit Dogra
Manjit has built up a strong practice in Crime, Immigration and Family law, successfully representing Clients in all jurisdictions and in a variety of matters.
Sandra Folkes
An experienced Barrister of many years who initially practiced in Crime, then for many years Housing (representing Local Authorities and Tenants) and Immigration.
Robin Griffiths
Robin undertakes a wide range of criminal work, but fraud, drugs and serious sexual offences have figured particularly prominently in recent years.
Stacey-Lee Holland
Since joining Chambers in May 2019, Stacey-lee has established a busy criminal law practice.
Gregory Hopewell
Gregory is a highly experienced Barrister with over 30 years experience in all aspects of family law.
George Jackson
Aisha Jamil
Aisha exclusively practices family law and has a busy practice.
David Jones
David is a highly regarded criminal practitioner for both defence and prosecution.
Jane Keysell
She joined chambers in 1998 initially as a criminal practitioner but gradually transitioned to family law.
Erika Khokhani
Erika has a busy practice in all areas of family law. She has experience across public, private and international children law and in financial matters.
Donna Longcroft
Donna has a busy Criminal Law practice
Mark Love
Mark is Head of Chambers and has held that role for over twenty years and has a substantial family practice.
Eve Macatonia
Eve has a busy Family Law Practice
John Mayberry
John has an interest in Crime and Family Law and is able to accept instructions in both areas.
Michael McAlinden
Michael is a specialist criminal defence barrister, successfully representing defendants in relation to every major offence in criminal law.
Shanda McAteer
Shanda is an approachable, very experienced, senior junior. She is regularly instructed by the CPS.
Karen McLaughlin
Karen McLaughlin has been practising family law for over 25 years, specialising in children’s work for the majority of her career.
Jessie Mond-Wedd
Jessie is an experienced practitioner, specialising in criminal law, regulatory law and family law.
Amelia Norman
Amelia predominantly practices criminal law and is regularly instructed by both the prosecution and defence.
Dolores O'Rawe
Dolores specialises in Family Law at all court levels:
Pankaj Pathak
Pankaj is focusing all his experience and skills on providing a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution known as Private FDR(pFDR).
Neil Petersen
Neil's practice is in Family Law and exclusively in children matters, representing parties across the range in such proceedings: local authorities, parents and guardians.
Martin Scott
He practices in both Family and Criminal law, undertaking both private and public law family work on behalf of parents and local authority clients.
Samrat Sengupta
Samrat joined Chambers in 2023, having established a busy criminal and Inquest practice.
Timothy Sleigh-Johnson
Tim has developed a solely criminal practice which sees him prosecute and defend trials in the Crown Court, and represent appellants in the Court of Appeal.
Sophia Stapleton
Sophia Stapleton
\tCalled to the Bar in 2015 (Lincoln’s Inn)
\tSophia is a barrister in chambers, predominately specialising in cases concerning children.
\tSophia has been ranked in Legal 500 2026, London Bar, Family as a tier 4 Leading Junior (Include here the logo for 2026, and link:
\tSophia was also ranked in the Legal 500 guide for 2025.
\t“Sophia is a very talented barrister and is very approachable and helpful. She gets involved in the case management to ensure that a case remains on track and is always on hand to provide advice on a case she is instructed on. She is passionate about the cases she is instructed on and is a solid pair of hands, which is essential in the difficult area of child protection work.”
\tTo instruct Sophia Stapleton, contact her clerks at [email protected] or call 0207 936 2613.
Peter Thomas-Pedder
Peter is an experienced barrister in chambers, practicing predominately in family law.
Gary Willmott
Gary is a highly experienced and diligent barrister with a busy family practice.
Samantha Wright
Samantha both prosecutes and defends in the Magistrates’, Youth and Crown Court.