Set Profile > 42 Bedford Row > London, England
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42 Bedford Row
LONDON
WC1R 4LL
England
42 Bedford Row > The Legal 500 Rankings
Clinical negligence
Leading Juniors
Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
Personal injury - Leading Juniors
Employment Tier 3
Regularly appearing in Employment Tribunals, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, and the High Court, 42 Bedford Row 'has a solid employment practice which offers strength in depth'. Jude Shepherd heads the set's employment team, which fields Orlando Holloway, who represented the respondents in various hearings (including a 10-day trial), which concerned claims of discrimination, whistleblowing, trade union detriment, and constructive unfair dismissal. Michael Salter has joined the set from the now-closed Ely Place Chambers.
Leading Juniors
Michael Salter - 42 Bedford Row ‘He has the technical expertise but also the pragmatism and ability to engage effectively with witnesses/clients – he is very personable. He is also responsive, flexible and provides valuable assistance during the preparation of claims, even when he is engaged in other matters.’
Martin Khoshdel - 42 Bedford Row ‘Good judgement and honest, with fantastic attention to detail. Clearly on top of the papers, knows his case well, and is incisive in putting across that case through cross-examination and submissions.’
Inquests and inquiries
Leading Juniors
Social housing Tier 3
42 Bedford Row's team is strong across all the main areas of housing law, including cases involving homelessness, possession claims, unlawful evictions, disrepair and service charges. It is particularly sought out in housing cases that interface with serious allegations of anti-social behaviour, as well as family law issues. The highly regarded team includes Mathew McDermott, who acted for the applicant in R (Laryea) v London Borough of Ealing; this is one of the few reported cases to deal with the provisions of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. In addition to representing individuals, members also act for local authorities, housing associations and registered landlords, among others. In addition to her practice, Naomi Hawkes is praised for the 'excellent training' she provides to clients. With his 'wealth of knowledge and experience', Desmond Kilcoyne and 'fearless advocate' Iris Ferber are also worthy of note.
Leading Juniors
Children law (including public and private law) Tier 4
42 Bedford Row is a ‘very solid set that offers expertise at all levels of counsel in respect of public law.’ It is also renowned for its growing private law practice. Key focus areas for its members include advising on disputes over children’s schooling, LGBT+ co-parenting, in addition to fertility and surrogacy matters. Tina Cook QC and Jonathan Bennett are the leading lights of the set at the senior and junior ends. The 'formidable' Marcia Hyde joins the rankings this year.
Leading Silks
2019 Silks
Leading Juniors
Set overviews: England and Wales
42 Bedford Row offers expertise across the employment, family, housing, and personal injury disciplines. The set's employment team has expanded this year following the arrival of Michael Salter, Gillian Crew, Catherine Urquhart, and Amy Stroud from Ely Place Chambers, and Jonathan Davies from Sergeants’ Inn Chambers. Elsewhere, Eleonore Berthelsen joined the family group from Atlantic Chambers in Liverpool. Also of note, Katie Phillips and Mary Robertson have been appointed Recorders of the Family Court, while Francis Cassidy and Caroline Landes have been appointed Deputy District Judges on the South Eastern Circuit, and Jude Shepherd has been appointed a part-time Employment Judge in the Scottish Employment Tribunal.Clerks:
Testimonials
Clerks:
All clerks are very helpful and I have never had any issue.
Clerking is very good and they are responsive.
Clerks room very good. Head clerk of Civil Team, Steve Sheridan, particularly excellent: friendly, couldn’t be more helpful, practical, fantastic service, reasonable to deal with on fees, goes the extra mile.
Steve Sheridan is a superb clerk. Experienced and welcoming with a warm persona.
Set:
They are ever helpful and welcoming. Nothing would appear to be too much trouble to them.
Very good, very experienced, very amenable.
42 Bedford Row > Set Profile
42 Bedford Row is one of the leading multi-disciplinary sets of chambers with over 110 members specialising across the spectrum of civil law. The set is instructed across England and Wales and internationally on both complex and sensitive matters requiring the highest levels of skill, and on relatively more straightforward matters that require very efficient resolution.
The set: 42 Bedford Row represents a group of more than 100 barristers who work for law firms, corporate clients, local authorities, public institutions and private individuals. It has well-established practice groups in family, business & property, employment, housing, personal injury and clinical negligence, with increasing strength and depth in every field year on year. Further specialist teams have now been developed in the fields of coronial law, Court of Protection, disciplinary and professional regulatory matters. Building such a breadth of expertise under one roof has proved to be a compelling proposition for clients of all types.
42 Bedford Row is well-known for the quality of its advice and advocacy and for its high levels of client service and it is especially proud of the fact that it works for clients from all parts of the UK and internationally. On any given day, members will be working for clients in courts and tribunals across England and Wales and in countries across the world.
Types of work undertaken: Members are organised into specialist practice areas that share expertise with each other and organise workshops for clients. With over 110 members the set is particularly known for its family work (child protection and growing financial remedy work); clinical negligence and personal injury; employment and rapidly growing business & property, housing, inquest, and professional regulatory and disciplinary practices. Many barristers accept direct public access work.
20 members are listed individually as leaders in their fields in Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. Past members include Rose LJ, Janet Smith LJ, Leveson LJ, David Clarke J and Caroline Swift J.
In the last year 42 Bedford Row has maintained or won places on over 20 client panels, often for multiple practice areas. The set continues to be a strong destination for barristers coming from other chambers looking to develop their careers and join a progressive, commercially managed set with a very strong client focus.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Chambers Director | Vincent Denham | vincent.denham@42br.com | 020 7831 0222 |
Member of Chambers | COOK QC, Tina (1988) | ||
Member of Chambers | FURNISS, Richard (1991) | ||
Member of Chambers | TAYLOR QC, Gemma (1988) | ||
Member of Chambers | WOODWARD-CARLTON QC, Damian (1995) | ||
Member of Chambers | BATCHELOR, Mark (1971) | ||
Member of Chambers | DAICHES, Michael (1977) | ||
Member of Chambers | NEWMAN, Philip (1977) | ||
Member of Chambers | LEDERMAN, Howard (1982) | ||
Member of Chambers | POTE, Andrew (1983) | ||
Member of Chambers | AZIM, Rehna (1984) | ||
Member of Chambers | DABBS, David (1984) | ||
Member of Chambers | FORD, Monica (1984) | ||
Member of Chambers | BENNETT, Jonathan (1985) | ||
Member of Chambers | VICKERY, Neil (1985) | ||
Member of Chambers | KING, Fawzia (1985) | ||
Member of Chambers | MAITLAND-JONES, Mark (1986) | ||
Member of Chambers | BRAITHWAITE, Garfield (1987) | ||
Member of Chambers | HALL, Jeremy (1988) | ||
Member of Chambers | PHIL-EBOSIE, Sheila (1988) | ||
Member of Chambers | CRAMSIE, Sinclair (1988) | ||
Member of Chambers | HAUKELAND, Martin (1989) | ||
Member of Chambers | COSTER, Ronald (1989) | ||
Member of Chambers | KILCOYNE, Desmond (1990) | ||
Member of Chambers | HIGGINS, Adrian (1990) | ||
Member of Chambers | WALTERS, Edmund (1991) | ||
Member of Chambers | TODMAN, Deborah (1991) | ||
Member of Chambers | OTWAL, Mukhtiar (1991) | ||
Member of Chambers | UDUJE, Ben (1992) | ||
Member of Chambers | HYDE, Marcia (1992) | ||
Member of Chambers | BUTTIMORE, Gabriel (1993) | ||
Member of Chambers | BALDWIN, Marcus (1994) | ||
Member of Chambers | HAWKES, Naomi (1994) | ||
Member of Chambers | McCORMACK, Philip (1994) | ||
Member of Chambers | CHAN, Susan (1994) | ||
Member of Chambers | FARRINGTON, Gemma (1994) | ||
Member of Chambers | MATTHEWSON, Scott (1996) | ||
Member of Chambers | SHEPHERD, Jude (1996) | ||
Member of Chambers | AHMAD, Aysha (1996) | ||
Member of Chambers | GARDNER, Eilidh (1997) | ||
Members of Chambers | HAYFORD, Jane (1997) | ||
Member of Chambers | WOODHOUSE, Nigel (1997) | ||
Member of Chambers | MANN, Christopher (1998) | ||
Member of Chambers | CREW, Gillian (1998) | ||
Member of Chambers | O'BRIEN, Niamh (1998) | ||
Member of Chambers | BHACHU, Sharan (1999) | ||
Member of Chambers | THOMAS, Rebecca (1999) | ||
Member of Chambers | SALTER, Michael (1999) | ||
Member of Chambers | LITTLE, Richard (2000) | ||
Member of Chambers | GREGORY, Richard (2000) | ||
Member of Chambers | CASSIDY, Francis (2000) | ||
Member of Chambers | PIEARS, Angela (2001) | ||
Member of Chambers | KHAN, Arfan (2001) | ||
Member of Chambers | PHILLIPS, Katie (2002) | ||
Member of Chambers | CHALONER, Mark (2002) | ||
Member of Chambers | WOOD, Thomas (2002) | ||
Member of Chambers | BRAIER, Jason (2002) | ||
Member of Chambers | CAMERON, Robert (2003) | ||
Member of Chambers | DILLON, Anne (2003) | ||
Member of Chambers | WALKER, Maria-Amália (2003) | ||
Member of Chambers | SMITH, Siân (2003) | ||
Member of Chambers | DAVIES, Jonathan (2003) | ||
Member of Chambers | BUTLER, George (2004) | ||
Member of Chambers | THAROO, Safia (2004) | ||
Member of Chambers | HOLLOWAY, Orlando (2004) | ||
Member of Chambers | CHAN, Rachel (2004) | ||
Member of Chambers | STROUD, Amy (2004) | ||
Member of Chambers | GLAISTER - YOUNG, Shelly (2004) | ||
Member of Chambers | FERBER, Iris (2005) | ||
Member of Chambers | ROBERTSON, Mary (2005) | ||
Member of Chambers | JEPSON, Amanda (2005) | ||
Member of Chambers | SINGER, Nick (2006) | ||
Member of Chambers | ATKINSON, Jessica (2006) | ||
Member of Chambers | WEBBER, Ruth (2006) | ||
Member of Chambers | KOHANZAD, Rad (2007) | ||
Member of Chambers | CLARK, Neil (2007) | ||
Member of Chambers | IRVINE, Celeste (2007) | ||
Member of Chambers | PRYOR, Alison (2008) | ||
Member of Chambers | McDERMOTT, Mathew (2008) | ||
Member of Chambers | NETTLESHIP, Helen (2009) | ||
Member of Chambers | STIMMLER, Ben (2009) | ||
Member of Chambers | BERTHELSEN, Eleonore (2009) | ||
Member of Chambers | GIACHARDI, Laura (2009) | ||
Member of Chambers | ARLIDGE, Heather (2009) | ||
Member of Chambers | GRANT, Michael (2009) | ||
Member of Chambers | WELCH, Tim (2009) | ||
Member of Chambers | HAMMOND, Sara (2009) | ||
Member of Chambers | URQUHART, Catherine (2010) | ||
Member of Chambers | ZOVIDAVI, Hamed (2010) | ||
Member of Chambers | KHOSHDEL, Martin (2010) | ||
Member of Chambers | MACKENZIE, Charlotte (2011) | ||
Member of Chambers | TROY, Pauline (2011) | ||
Member of Chambers | BIDNELL-EDWARDS, Nicholas (2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | SCARBOROUGH, Christi (2012) | ||
Member of Chambers | LLOYD-JONES, Edward (2012) | ||
Member of Chambers | PEARCE, Jonathan (2012) | ||
Member of Chambers | PATEL, Krishma (2012) | ||
Member of Chambers | LIBERADZKI, Stefan (2013) | ||
Member of Chambers | SHARPE, James Arthur (2014) | ||
Member of Chambers | JOLLEY, Peter (2014) | ||
Member of Chambers | WHEELER, Eleanor (2014) | ||
Member of Chambers | BURRELL, Alex (2014) | ||
Member of Chambers | BARKER, Chantelle (2014) | ||
Member of Chambers | PHIPPS, Vondez (2014) | ||
Member of Chambers | YOUNGS, Jennifer (2016) | ||
Member of Chambers | GORDON, Max (2016) | ||
Member of Chambers | WHITTINGTON, Louise (2016) | ||
Member of Chambers | FIREMAN, Jamie (2016) | ||
Member of Chambers | ARCHER, Katherine (2018) | ||
Member of Chambers | LANDES, Caroline (2019) | ||
Member of Chambers | CLAXTON, Kate (2019) |
Barrister Profiles
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Mr Jonathan Bennett | Mainly public law care proceedings, but also other family and local authority… | View Profile |
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Miss Susan Chan | Susan practices in employment law, public law, personal injury/clinical negligence and inquests.… | View Profile |
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Miss Tina Cook QC | Family law specialist with a special emphasis on children work,. Tina often acts… | View Profile |
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Miss Iris Ferber | Specialist in all aspects of employment law and in property law, especially… | View Profile |
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Richard Furniss | Richard is a well-known specialist in medical law, and has vast experience… | View Profile |
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Richard Gregory | Richard Gregory is an established personal injury and clinical negligence practitioner, with… | View Profile |
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Miss Naomi Hawkes | Naomi was called to the Bar in 1994. She has over 20… | View Profile |
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Mr Orlando Holloway | Orlando was called to the Bar in 2004. Since becoming a tenant… | View Profile |
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Mr Scott Matthewson | Scott is head of the Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Team at… | View Profile |
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Miss Katie Phillips | Katie is a family law specialist, practising across all areas of children… | View Profile |
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Miss Jude Shepherd | Jude Shepherd is Head of the Employment Team at 42 Bedford Row | View Profile |
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Miss Gemma Taylor QC | Gemma practises family law, primarily public law care and adoption proceedings for… | View Profile |
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Mr Damian Woodward-Carlton | Mainly public law care proceedings, but also other family and local authority… | View Profile |
Top Tier Set Rankings
Set Rankings
- London Bar Clinical negligence
- London Bar Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud
- London Bar Employment
- London Bar Inquests and inquiries
- London Bar Social housing
- London Bar Children law (including public and private law)
- Regional Bar Set overviews: England and Wales
- London Bar Set overviews: England and Wales