Set Profile > 42 Bedford Row > London, England
42 Bedford Row Offices
42 Bedford Row
LONDON
WC1R 4LL
England
42 Bedford Row > The Legal 500 Rankings
Personal injury, industrial disease and insurance fraud Tier 1
Personal injury - Leading Juniors
Clinical negligence Tier 2
Leading Juniors
Social housing Tier 3
Leading Juniors
Inquests and inquiries Tier 3
Children law (including public and private law) Tier 4
With ‘many excellent and solid barristers’ 42 Bedford Row is able to advise on the full range of private law issues as well as public law children matters. Areas of expertise for its members include advising on disputes over children’s schooling as well as LGBT+ co-parenting, fertility, and surrogacy issues. Damian Woodward-Carlton took silk in 2019.
Leading Silks
2019 Silks
Leading Juniors
Employment Tier 4
Leading Juniors
Set overviews: England and Wales
42 Bedford Row offers a wide range of ‘experienced and personable’ counsel across the employment, family, housing, and personal injury disciplines. The ‘efficient’ clerks’ room is ‘client-focused and will always try and make a member available’ for instructing solicitors. Chambers director Vincent Denham is assisted by senior practice manager Steve Sheridan and practice managers Stuart Ritchie and Chris Collinson. In recent news, the set’s family team has been strengthened after Damian Woodward-Carlton took silk in 2019, and the addition of former McMillan Williams partner Caroline Landes, who joins chambers after being called to the Bar, along with Marcia Hyde from Coram Chambers, Alison Pryor from Church Court Chambers, and Shelly Glaister-Young. Other new additions include Krishma Patel joining the set’s civil team from Atlantic Chambers; Jason Braier, (formerly Field Court Chambers) and Tim Welch (ex-36 Bedford Row) add to the set’s growing employment group; Arfan Khan brings his specialist appellate practice in Chancery, commercial, and public law to the set. Meanwhile, Timothy Adkin has been appointed a full-time salaried employment judge; Edward Bennion-Pedley has joined Selborne Chambers; while practice manager Clare Sabido and Natasha Southgate have both joined Serjeants' Inn Chambers. Offices in: London
42 Bedford Row > Firm 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 100 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 | FELDMAN, Matthew (1995) | ||
| Member of Chambers | CHOUDHURY, Fareha (1995) | ||
| 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 | O'BRIEN, Niamh (1998) | ||
| Member of Chambers | BHACHU, Sharan (1999) | ||
| Member of Chambers | THOMAS, Rebecca (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 | BUTLER, George (2004) | ||
| Member of Chambers | THAROO, Safia (2004) | ||
| Member of Chambers | HOLLOWAY, Orlando (2004) | ||
| Member of Chambers | CHAN, Rachel (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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | LANDES, Caroline (2019) | ||
| Member of Chambers | CLAXTON, Kate (2019) |
Lawyer Profiles
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