Set Profile > Chambers of Richard Chapman QC > Manchester, England
Chambers of Richard Chapman QC Offices
18 St John Street Chambers
18-20 ST JOHN STREET
MANCHESTER
M3 4EA
England
Chambers of Richard Chapman QC > The Legal 500 Rankings
Clinical negligence
18 St John Street Chambers is home to Christopher Limb and Gemma McGungle, both of whom specialise in claimant clinical negligence work. Among other work, Limb represented the claimant in Welsh v Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, a sepsis case.
Leading Juniors
Commercial, banking, insolvency and Chancery law
18 St John Street Chambers is home to a broad range of commercial and Chancery practitioners and is instructed on a correspondingly wide range of cases. Notable specialist areas include director disqualifications and insolvency. One recent case is Direct Accident Management v Greentree Legal and Legend Legal, in which David Hoffman defended two solicitor's firms against a confidential information claim brought by a claims management company.
Leading Silks
Leading Juniors
Family and children law
18 St John Street Chambers, praised by clients for its 'friendly, professional, and reliable' approach, fields a large team of specialist family practitioners, with a particular focus on care proceedings, though members do also practice in financial remedy and private children law cases. Financial remedy specialist Stephen Murray recently acted for the wife in an enforcement proceeding stemming from a previous financial order, which the husband sought to avoid by transferring English property assets to a Bahamian trust.
Leading Juniors
Personal injury
The 'well-established' 18 St John Street Chambers is home to a 'very broad' range of specialist practitioners, who are instructed on behalf of both claimants and defendants. Particular areas of expertise for the set include employer's liability, road traffic accidents and occupier's liability.
Leading Juniors
Set overviews: England and Wales
18 St John Street Chambers covers a range of personal injury, criminal law, and family law matters, and has a growing commercial practice as evidenced by Richard Chapman’s 2019 silk appointment. Also of note, junior Hannah Phoenix has recently returned to chambers after taking a sabbatical to work as a judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal for Sir Andrew McFarlane and Lord Justice Peter Jackson. The ‘really friendly and efficient’ clerks include senior clerk John Hammond; in the family clerking team, Camille Scott and Garrick Brown are ‘always prepared to go out of their way to find suitable counsel, last-minute if necessary’; and civil clerk Katie Brown, who is ‘very efficient and quick to reply’. Offices in: Manchester
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Clinical negligence
18 St John Street Chambers is home to Christopher Limb and Gemma McGungle, both of whom specialise in claimant clinical negligence work. Among other work, Limb represented the claimant in Welsh v Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, a sepsis case.
Leading Juniors
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Commercial, banking, insolvency and Chancery law
18 St John Street Chambers is home to a broad range of commercial and Chancery practitioners and is instructed on a correspondingly wide range of cases. Notable specialist areas include director disqualifications and insolvency. One recent case is Direct Accident Management v Greentree Legal and Legend Legal, in which David Hoffman defended two solicitor's firms against a confidential information claim brought by a claims management company.
Leading Silks
Leading Juniors
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Family and children law
18 St John Street Chambers, praised by clients for its 'friendly, professional, and reliable' approach, fields a large team of specialist family practitioners, with a particular focus on care proceedings, though members do also practice in financial remedy and private children law cases. Financial remedy specialist Stephen Murray recently acted for the wife in an enforcement proceeding stemming from a previous financial order, which the husband sought to avoid by transferring English property assets to a Bahamian trust.
Leading Juniors
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Personal injury
The 'well-established' 18 St John Street Chambers is home to a 'very broad' range of specialist practitioners, who are instructed on behalf of both claimants and defendants. Particular areas of expertise for the set include employer's liability, road traffic accidents and occupier's liability.
Leading Juniors
Chambers of Richard Chapman QC > Firm Profile
THE SET
The members of 18 St John Street Chambers have been delivering the highest standards of advice and advocacy services to professional and lay clients for over 45 years. Across our core departments we offer exceptionally skilled practitioners in business and property, civil and personal injury, criminal law and family law. The depth of each department allows us to offer an extensive list of barristers across the full range of seniority and experience who are knowledgeable, insightful and analytical with particular expertise in verbal and written advice, legal drafting, negotiation and court advocacy. Within our dedicated practice groups we provide further teams specialising in additional areas of expertise including clinical negligence, costs, Court of Protection, employment, military proceedings, regulatory and disciplinary proceedings, sports law and tax. Chambers also has an accredited team offering arbitration and mediation services.
Whilst the majority of our work is conducted on the Northern Circuit, members regularly attend conferences, meetings and mediations and undertake advocacy in every level of the Tribunals and Courts across the United Kingdom and further afield. Members appear in the Court of Appeal, Upper Tribunal, Supreme Court and the European Courts. Our members treat each and every case with the utmost sensitivity and confidentiality. We are understanding and sympathetic but firm, focused and professional. We represent individuals directly and via high street, regional and national law firms. We also provide our services to businesses and public sector organisations including the full range of prosecuting authorities and agencies as well as local councils and regional authorities.
We maintain the highest standards and traditions of the independent bar but we are a dynamic and forward thinking chambers. Members have embraced the modern administration of legal practice with paperless working, online resources, document collaboration and the use of electronic diaries and case management systems, a predominant feature in their day-to-day work. Chambers boasts state of the art conference, meeting and mediation facilities including video-link and telephone conference technology.
The success of our members is epitomised by the number who have gone on to be appointed as District, Circuit and High Court Judges. Chambers is able to draw strongly on the knowledge and experience of its currents members who hold judicial and governmental appointments, including Recorders, Deputy District Judges, part-time Judges sitting in the First Tier Tribunals of the Primary Health Lists, Special Educational Needs, Care Standards, Health, Education, Social Care and Tax and Property Chambers, and the Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales. Four barristers are members of the Attorney-General’s Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, and three are former university lecturers in law. Other members have worked on secondment for government departments including the Charity Commission and the Care Quality Commission.
Chambers’ clerking and administration teams have a wealth of experience across all fields of practice and areas of accounting. We have dedicated teams of clerks specifically trained to look after clients with specialist knowledge in their own practice areas. Our fees clerks have decades of experience in billing and processing fees in legally aided, privately paid and publically funded matters.
TYPES OF WORK UNDERTAKEN
Business & Property Our specialist services include providing robust and practical advice, drafting of documents and high quality advocacy, tailored to the needs of the client across all areas of chancery and commercial litigation. Areas of business law expertise include banking and financial services, bankruptcy and insolvency, civil fraud, company law, consumer credit, contracts, directors duties and disqualification, entertainment law, European law, franchising, housing, insurance, intellectual property (including copyright), landlord and tenant (commercial, residential, and agricultural), mortgages and guarantees, partnerships and joint ventures, product liability, professional negligence, restraint of trade and economic torts and sale of goods. Our property law expertise covers agricultural land and tenancies, boundaries, rights of way and landholder disputes, charities and clubs, environmental law, inheritance & probate, planning and development, land registration disputes, possession of land, proprietary estoppel, restrictive covenants, tax (and especially business and agricultural property relief and trusts of land.
Civil and Personal Injury Our members’ practices focus primarily on personal injury and clinical negligence work. Specialist areas covered include road traffic accidents (including motorcycle and bicycles claims), employers’ liability, public liability and product liability claims. Individual barristers also have expertise in professional negligence, employment law, housing, inquests and costs. We cover all levels of work, from small claims to the most complex matters, including catastrophic injury claims and other high-value litigation. Members of the department regularly receive individual legal directory testimonials and are described as being ‘highly meticulous’, ‘tenacious and skilful’, having ‘medical knowledge [that] is second to none’ and ‘an excellent manner with clients’. We act for both claimants and defendants, and pride ourselves on our approachability and client care.
Crime Our department are regularly instructed in serious, high profile and complicated cases. We offer expertise at all levels of seniority. We prosecute and defend at all stages of the criminal process from pre-charge to the appellate level. Our work includes homicide, terrorism, sexual and violent offences, drugs and importation, fraud and organised crime. Expertise extends to various fields related to criminal law such as regulatory and disciplinary work, confiscation hearings, Parole Board hearings and forfeiture of cash and goods. We have members who bring with them experience from outside the self-employed Bar in forensic science, mediation, the Court of Appeal and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Family Our experienced and dedicated counsel undertake work at all levels across all areas of law involving children, families and finance, who are regularly instructed in complex, high-profile and high-net-worth cases. Our ethos is to provide a service which combines expert legal advice with the practical common sense that is often required to ensure that those we represent achieve the best possible result. Our clients value the fact that we offer the highest quality range of counsel, with specialist knowledge and experience in public and private law children act, adoption, wardship, forced marriage protection orders, female genital mutilation protection orders, surrogacy and issues relating to same sex parents pursuant to HFEA, child abduction, international relocation, divorce, domestic violence injunctions, financial remedy proceedings, recovery and preservation of assets, cohabitation disputes including TOLATA claims, Court of Protection, deprivation of liberty and secure accommodation.
Main Contacts
| Department | Name | Telephone | |
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| Senior Clerk | John Hammond | ||
| Head Criminal Clerk | James Hotchin | ||
| Head Civil Clerk | Katie Brown | ||
| Head Family Clerk | Camille Scott | ||
| Chambers Manager | Emma Bowie | ||
| Members of Chambers | CHAPMAN QC, Richard (1998) | ||
| Associate Member | GLANCY QC, Robert (1972)* | ||
| Associate Member | KILLALEA QC, Stephen (1981)* | ||
| Associate Member | EKANEY QC, Nkumbe (1990)* | ||
| Associate Member | HOWLING QC, Rex (1991)* | ||
| Associate Member | ISAACS QC, Elizabeth (1998)* | ||
| Members of Chambers | DOCKERY, Paul (1973) | ||
| Members of Chambers | O'BRIEN, Paul (1974) | ||
| Members of Chambers | DIAMOND, Christopher (1975) | ||
| Members of Chambers | LIMB, Christopher (1975) | ||
| Members of Chambers | LAPRELL, Mark (1979) | ||
| Members of Chambers | HUFFER, Ian (1979) | ||
| Members of Chambers | VARDON, Richard (1985) | ||
| Members of Chambers | MURRAY, Stephen (1986) | ||
| Members of Chambers | HEALING, Yvonne (1987) | ||
| Members of Chambers | SASSE, Toby (1988) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BIRTLES, Samantha (1989) | ||
| Members of Chambers | TYTHCOTT, Elisabeth (1989) | ||
| Members of Chambers | HOLLORAN, Fiona (1989) | ||
| Members of Chambers | DALE, Jonathan (1991) | ||
| Members of Chambers | WILLS, Janice (1991) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BRADY, Michael (1992) | ||
| Members of Chambers | HARRISON, Susan (1993) | ||
| Members of Chambers | SHENTON, Rachel (1993) | ||
| Members of Chambers | MOORE, Andrew (1996) | ||
| Members of Chambers | FAUX, Rachel (1997) | ||
| Members of Chambers | HOFFMAN, David (1997) | ||
| Members of Chambers | MACKLEY, David (1997) | ||
| Members of Chambers | GRIERSON, Jonathan (1999) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BRAMALL, Kate (1999) | ||
| Members of Chambers | GOLDSTEIN, Wayne (1999) | ||
| Members of Chambers | NORMAN, Ben (2000) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BOYLE, Karen (2000) | ||
| Members of Chambers | CAPLAN, Leonie (2001) | ||
| Members of Chambers | KAJUE, Soria (2001) | ||
| Members of Chambers | CLARKE, Nicholas (2001) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BUCKLE, Colin (2002) | ||
| Members of Chambers | DONALDSON, Sarah (2003) | ||
| Members of Chambers | THOMAS, Laura (2003) | ||
| Members of Chambers | NEWSTEAD TAYLOR, Jennifer (2003) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BEGUM, Rehana (2004) | ||
| Members of Chambers | MCNALL, Christopher (2005) | ||
| Members of Chambers | LAU, Vanessa (2005) | ||
| Members of Chambers | YOUSHANI, Elahe (2005) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BENNETT, Angela (2005) | ||
| Members of Chambers | AHMED, Farah (2005) | ||
| Members of Chambers | WILKINSON, Michael (2006) | ||
| Members of Chambers | AMEEN, Danish (2006) | ||
| Members of Chambers | CHAN, Evonnie (2007) | ||
| Members of Chambers | DAVIES, Rupert (2007) | ||
| Members of Chambers | EVANS, Andrew (2007) | ||
| Members of Chambers | SIMONS, Kane (2007) | ||
| Members of Chambers | POPE, Sandra (2008) | ||
| Members of Chambers | ALLEN, Fergal (2007) | ||
| Members of Chambers | CAPLAN, Oliver (2007) | ||
| Members of Chambers | CALDER, Daniel (2008) | ||
| Members of Chambers | WARTERS, Anna (2011) | ||
| Members of Chambers | MCGUNGLE, Gemma (2011) | ||
| Members of Chambers | EVANS, Elizabeth (2011) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BRETTS, Lewis (2012) | ||
| Members of Chambers | RONAN, Neil (2012) | ||
| Members of Chambers | HARRISON, Nicholas (2016) | ||
| Members of Chambers | COULSON, Lucy (2013) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BROCKLEBANK, Claire (2014) | ||
| Members of Chambers | HUGHES, Jocelyn (2015) | ||
| Members of Chambers | JACKSON, Jonathan (2013) | ||
| Members of Chambers | HARRISON, Jack (2015) | ||
| Members of Chambers | CARROLL, Nicola (2016) | ||
| Members of Chambers | ALMEIDA, Amber (2016) | ||
| Members of Chambers | EMPSON, Victoria (2016) | ||
| Members of Chambers | PHOENIX, Hannah (2015) | ||
| Members of Chambers | PREECE, James (2016) | ||
| Members of Chambers | DONOHUE, Kate (2017) | ||
| Members of Chambers | BOWKER, Joshua (2015) | ||
| Members of Chambers | CRADDOCK, Toby (2015) | ||
| Members of Chambers | WHITE, Anna (2018) | ||
| Members of Chambers | SWINSCOE, Martine (2018) | ||
| Associate Member | MCEWAN, Malcolm (1977)* | ||
| Associate Member | BRIGGS, Laura (2001)* | ||
| Associate Member | RIMMER, Hugh (2003)* | ||
| Associate Member (Non-Practising) | DOWSE, Francesca (2004)* | ||
| Associate Member (Non-Practising) | BIRKETT QC, Peter (1972)* | ||
| Associate Member (Non-Practising) | WIGGLESWORTH QC, Raymond (1979)* | ||
| Associate Member (Non-Practising) | HEDGELAND, Roger (1972)* | ||
| Associate Member (Non-Practising) | JONES, Nell (2000)* |
Lawyer Profiles
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Fergal Allen | Fergal regularly accepts instructions to act in both public law and private… | View Profile |
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Danish Ameen | View Profile | |
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Rehana Begum | View Profile | |
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Ms Peter Birkett | Practised general common law until the mid 1980s then concentrated on criminal… | View Profile |
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Samantha Birtles | Notable cases: Re: M (contact: supervision) 1998 1FLR 727; Re: P (Section… | View Profile |
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Michael Brady | Established criminal practitioner who both prosecutes and defends in all aspects of… | View Profile |
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Kate Bramall | Re F (children) (DNA evidence) (2007); [2007] EWHC 3235 (fam): [2008] 1FLR… | View Profile |
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Lewis Bretts | Lewis commenced pupillage in Manchester in September 2013 and is developing a… | View Profile |
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Daniel Calder | Daniel joined Chambers as a tenant in 2011 following successful completion of… | View Profile |
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Oliver Caplan | View Profile | |
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Leonie Caplan | Child concern: prior to transferring to the Bar in 2001 Leonie practiced… | View Profile |
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Evonnie Chan | View Profile | |
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Richard Chapman QC | Commercial and chancery Law, including: real property, landlord and tenant, contract, company,… | View Profile |
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Nicholas Clarke | Nicholas Clarke has worked in the law since 1985, qualifying as a… | View Profile |
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Kate Clarkson | Kate commenced Pupillage in September 2013 and is developing a broad family… | View Profile |
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Jonathan Dale | Notable cases: advising litigant in person and drafting skeleton argument in Keith… | View Profile |
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Rupert Davies | Rupert obtained a first class degree from the University of Cambridge. He… | View Profile |
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Christopher Diamond | Christopher Diamond was called to the Bar in 1975 and has been… | View Profile |
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Paul Dockery | View Profile | |
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Sarah Donaldson | View Profile | |
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Andrew Evans | Since completing pupillage under Simon Csoka QC my practice has been exclusively… | View Profile |
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Rachel Faux | An established criminal practice in matters of violence, drugs, dishonesty and sexual… | View Profile |
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Wayne Goldstein | General chancery and commercial law including; land law and neighbour disputes, TOLATA,… | View Profile |
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Jonathan Grierson | Family law, ancillary relief, children, divorce, public law, cohabitees – relationship/property disputes.… | View Profile |
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Susan Harrison | Private law Children Act (residence, contact adoption etc.); public law care proceedings;… | View Profile |
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Yvonne Healing | Children [public law], child abduction, ancillary relief, cohabitee disputes. Notable cases: Manchester… | View Profile |
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David Hoffman | Commercial and chancery practitioner covering: arbitration, banking and insurance, chancery (general), construction,… | View Profile |
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Fiona Holloran | Children and divorce, specialising in care proceedings. | View Profile |
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Ian Huffer | All areas of personal injury litigation including high value claims, road traffic… | View Profile |
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Soria Kajue | Public and private law children for local authorities, parents and guardians; ancillary… | View Profile |
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Sarah Kilvington | Sarah specialises in all aspects of family law, including: ancillary relief and… | View Profile |
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Mark Laprell | View Profile | |
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Vanessa Lau | Family law: Children Act section 8 proceedings; care proceedings. Criminal law; prosecuting… | View Profile |
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Christopher Limb | For many years Christopher’s practice has been predominantly in civil work and… | View Profile |
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Adam Lodge | Since completing pupillage in 1998 I have practised extensively in crime acting… | View Profile |
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David Mackley | David is a member of the family team and practices in all… | View Profile |
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Kalsoom Maqsood | All areas of family Law including ancillary relief, public and private law… | View Profile |
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Andrea Markham | Public law children: Andrea appears regularly on behalf of local authorities. She… | View Profile |
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Stuart Martin | View Profile | |
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Gemma McGungle | Gemma has had experience of a wide civil practice with an emphasis… | View Profile |
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Christopher McNall | After undergraduate and graduate legal studies in Oxford and Poland, Christopher taught… | View Profile |
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Andrew Moore | Andrew initially studied archaeology and then commenced his legal training after completing… | View Profile |
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Stephen Murray | Family law (matrimonial finance, cohabitee disputes, private law children, applications under the… | View Profile |
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Michael Murray | View Profile | |
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Elizabeth Murray | Elizabeth became a tenant of 18 St John Street Chambers having successfully… | View Profile |
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Ben Norman | Personal injury: employers’ liability, occupiers liability and product liability; highways and public… | View Profile |
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Paul O’Brien | Criminal law, including commercial fraud, VAT cases involving diversion fraud and MTIC/carousel… | View Profile |
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Sandra Pope | Sandi regularly acts for individuals and organisations in a wide variety of… | View Profile |
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Toby Sasse | Notable cases: R v Secretary of State for Transport and Others ex… | View Profile |
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Andrew Scott | View Profile | |
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Rachel Shenton | All areas of criminal law including murder, serious offences of violence, fraud,… | View Profile |
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Kane Simons | Notable Cases: R v Merlin Ferry [May 2011]. Media Reports: ‘Daily Mail’,… | View Profile |
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Alex Stansby | All aspects of family law, in particular: contested foreign divorce, ancillary relief,… | View Profile |
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Laura Thomas | View Profile | |
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Elisabeth Tythcott | Notable cases: John Richardson Computer Ltd v Flanders; Beatwell v Beatwell; DEGG… | View Profile |
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Richard Vardon | All areas of criminal law with particular experience and expertise in: homicide… | View Profile |
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Raymond Wigglesworth QC | Ray Wigglesworth has a specialist fraud based criminal practice both defending and… | View Profile |
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Michael Wilkinson | Commercial and chancery law, including: real property, landlord and tenant, contract, company,… | View Profile |
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Janice Wills | Family law: contested divorce; Hague Convention cases; public interest immunity; domestic violence;… | View Profile |
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Elahe Youshani | View Profile |