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Civitas Law is an award-winning, leading specialist civil and public law barristers’ chambers serving clients across Wales and England. It believes clients are best served by a set of highly specialist lawyers offering excellence and innovation in advisory work, drafting, mediation and advocacy. With the support of its dedicated, experienced and highly responsive clerks and client support teams, barristers are able to provide a full range of counsel services in personal injuries and clinical negligence; employment; public, planning and regulatory; chancery, business, consumer; and ADR matters. The wide range of experience within each group allows the set to work successfully with clients from small-track cases to a complex appeal. The set continues to develop its reputation by attracting the best of the Bar and aims to provide a cutting-edge service while maintaining traditions of independence and integrity. Civitas Law is a Law Society-accredited course provider and regularly hosts CPD training, seminars and conferences, either in-house, at clients’ offices or in collaboration with sector organisations.

The set: Civitas Law puts itself at the heart of the evolution and development of legal services, the civil and public law process and the communities in which it and its clients operate in. Working closely with clients and understanding their legal and business needs has allowed chambers to create valuable client benefits that add to its pure counsel capacity.

Its professional standards and advice are supported by a first-class client care team and service-oriented approach to help deliver and support clients beyond all expectations. The provision of providing clear legal advice which is easily understood by the set’s lay clients is a founding principle of Civitas Law, established in 2008 as Wales’ first focused civil and public law set. The set works closely with its professional clients to ensure that chambers’ services are tailored to their unique requirements and business objectives.

Among its 21 members are barristers who write or contribute to leading practitioner texts and publications, act as mediators and arbitrators and are appointed as Treasury Counsel, to the Attorney General’s Panel and as counsel to the Welsh Government and National Assembly for Wales.

Civitas Law has set for itself the highest standards in the delivery of services to its clients; that of excellence. The set aims to be professional and approachable and to provide legal advice which is clear and easily understood by lay clients.

Types of work undertaken: The personal injury and clinical negligence division consists of more than 15 specialist practitioners at all levels of experience acting for claimants and defendants, including major trade union and insurance clients, central, local and the Welsh Assembly Government and NHS trusts. The group has specialists in occupational deafness and disease work and in injuries of maximum severity.

Chancery practitioners specialise in all aspects of probate, inheritance and property disputes, including extensive advisory work.

Practitioners in the employment division specialise in all aspects of employment law, ranging from basic unfair dismissal claims to the more complex discrimination and equal pay and breach of contract claims.

The public law and regulatory division brings together practitioners from public and administrative law, civil aspects of public authority work and criminal enforcement, reflecting patterns of change in local government. It serves the requirements of public bodies of all descriptions and provides appropriate specialist knowledge tailored to the individual issues. From advisory work, inquiries and court appearances at all levels to judicial review, regular instructions cover the breadth of public law and include health and safety, trades descriptions, care standards, food hygiene and licensing.

In addition individual members practise extensively in town and country planning and environmental work.

The dispute resolution division provides expert and experienced mediation, arbitration and adjudication services in civil and commercial disputes.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Mona Bayoumi	Mona’s practice is extensively based within the public, planning and regulatory and…	View Profile
	Richard Cole	Richard is instructed by the Force Solicitors of the police forces across…	View Profile
	Mair Coombes Davies	Mair specialises in dispute resolution. She has conducted many hundreds of separate…	View Profile
	Dan Dyson	Dan specialises in commercial and property litigation.  His practice features business disputes…	View Profile
	Cathrine Grubb	Barrister specialising in chancery, commercial and public law. Cathrine also accepts instrucion…	View Profile
	Victoria Hillier	Victoria is ranked in the Legal 500 2011 and 2012 directory for…	View Profile
	Christopher Howells	Chris is ranked as a Chambers UK Guide ‘Leader in their field’…	View Profile
	Simon Hughes	Simon practices in the field of personal injury law. He appears in…	View Profile
	Owain James	Owain has a busy advocacy and advisory practice across all of chambers’…	View Profile
	Nicholas Jones	Nick acts on behalf of claimants and defendants (including central government and…	View Profile
	Kate Parker	Kate accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ practice and has a…	View Profile
	Matthew Paul	Matthew Graham Paul practices within Civitas Law’s public, planning and regulatory group.…	View Profile
	William Rees	Will practices in the areas of commercial, public law, construction law and…	View Profile
	Bryan Thomas	Bryan is a Chambers UK Bar Guide and Legal 500 ‘Tier 1’…	View Profile
	Anthony Vines	Anthony has an extensive practice and is a member of the Public,…	View Profile
	Graham Walters	Practice is essentially concerned with property, planning and public and administrative law.…	View Profile
	Joanne Williams	Joanne is recommended as leading counsel for personal injury and employment law…	View Profile