Clerks:

All the clerks are fantastic: responsive, friendly and competent.

Clerks I have dealt with are friendly and efficient. I usually deal with Paul Jennings who is both.

Easy to deal with and experienced. They have a good knowledge of the subject matter and are well-versed in matching counsel to a particular assignment.

Efficient and timely. Paul Jennings is always a pleasure to deal with, as is Dan Coote.

Excellent and efficient service throughout and every clerk I liaised with were helpful and dealt with any queries expeditiously.

First-rate clerks, who really understand solicitors’ needs. Paul Jennings and Dan Coote are quite excellent and very personable

Dan Cootes has been very efficient and helpful.

Paul Jennings – excellent, willing to be helpful and pragmatic about how costs are managed, backed up by great juniors, in particular Dan Coote.

Paul Jennings is an excellent senior clerk, approachable and professional.

The clerks are always very helpful and quick to respond to queries. Charlie Firmin always responds promptly and is good at ensuring that matters are progress – such as getting hearings listed.

The clerks are excellent in matching up the strengths of the various counsel with the relevant case matters and are very helpful in making the necessary arrangements!

The clerks go out of their way. Paul and Dan are always attentive and helpful.

They are very helpful and I can often obtain information from them outside their normal course of work.

They are very helpful, especially when you require access to urgent advice.

Top notch both in terms of response times and assistance with document preparation.

We have found the clerks to be generally responsive and always helpful. We would say in particular Paul Jennings has an extremely good manner and understanding of what an instructing solicitor needs. He understands what you need beyond just the legal issues and understands the characters involved and is willing to bend over backwards to help you. He is approachable, responsive, commercially savvy and a pleasure to deal with.

Set:

5 Stone Buildings are a fantastic set and they offer an excellent range of counsel with a broad range of experience. They possess great strength in depth and have a really strong set of juniors, in particular. They are an ever-present at events in the trusts and estate disputes world and host a number of events for further professional development and networking. They are my go-to set.

5 Stone Buildings are a very strong set in contentious trusts and probate work.

5 Stone Buildings are an outstanding set able to cover the full range of private client matters. They’re accessible and the go-to set in private client and tax matters.

5 Stone Buildings are my go-to set for contentious probate work. The Chambers does have strength in depth and does have good junior Counsel who can be instructed to advise at short notice and on appropriate cases. Chambers holds regular seminars and webinars which are generally again very much on point.

5 stone Buildings continue to be my first choice for Court of Protection (and contentious trusts and probate having exceptional strength across the subject matter running through their members. They run an interesting and varied educational programme on current topics

5 Stone Buildings has a number of excellent barristers. They offer excellent webinars and seminars.

5 Stone Buildings has some excellent mediators notably Miranda Allardice.

5 Stone Buildings is a leading chancery set. It is definitely a go-to for top barristers in this field.

5 Stone Buildings is a very good set, with some excellent barristers within it. I frequently seek advice there on trusts, tax and property matters, and the people I have dealt with there have all understood the interplay between family law and those specialist areas.

5 Stone Buildings offer excellent training, and their barristers are second to none in the world of Contentious Trusts and Estates.

5SB are a very friendly and approachable set. There is always someone available and willing to help even on a short notice or urgent basis. I never hesitate to approach them and instruct a range counsel from very junior to QC. Their fee estimates are very reasonable and rarely exceeded and clients are always complimentary of their involvement. Training seminars are also excellent and always well attended.

5SB is the ‘go-to’ set for traditional chancery work.

A good choice for chancery litigation, specifically regarding wills and trusts.

A very strong set in relation to contested statutory wills. Also provide excellent training on interesting topics.

All members of chambers with whom I have dealt have been excellent.

Excellent education courses offered which serve to demonstrate the strength and depth of the advice provided by the set as a whole.

Excellent set – one of the “go to” ones for trust and probate. I would say 5 Stone has established itself in the “top tier” of chambers in the area. They have real strength in depth and all of their barristers combine real technical expertise with approachability and a practical approach.

Excellent set of chambers. I always feel in good hands instructing any barrister in chambers.

It is a pleasure to attend seminars and updating courses they arrange throughout the year.

Excellent set, a fabulous range of expertise in commercial Chancery and offshore work.

Excellent strength in depth, in particular on the private client side. Technically astute and very good training courses.

Excellent. I use many junior barristers in the chambers who are of a very high calibre.

Good responsive clerking for a team of renowned experts in their field. A broad range of advocates at the intellectual sharp end of the spectrum who can be relied on to give precise and effective advice. I wouldn’t look elsewhere for tort and bailment disputes.

Good strength in depth at all levels; always good availability of counsel; relevant training offered for free on a regular basis; first-rate clerks, who really understand solicitors’ needs

Great Strength in-depth at this set, excellent alternates have been offered/provided if chosen counsel is unavailable.

Training – available at events and online. Great counsel invariably involved in the leading cases.

Undoubtedly one of the leading sets for this type of work.

Great Strength in-depth at this set, excellent alternates have been offered/provided if chosen counsel is unavailable.

Training – available at events and online. Great counsel invariably involved in the leading cases.

I have also instructed Amanda Hardy QC jointly with Oliver on certain matters and that has worked very effectively – they are a good team.

Leading Contentious Trust and Probate set. One of the go to Chambers in the country.

Responsive, huge breadth of knowledge in COP work, excellent training programmes and business development events

The set is very good indeed – excellent range of counsel, and real strengths there.

There are several very capable counsel doing CoP property and affairs work e.g. David Rees, Tracey Angus,Barbara Rich, Miranda Allardice, Mathew Roper, Jordan Holland, ensuring a good skill set is available much of the time.

They have a broad experience and they attract really good quality work because of their expertise. There are so many people there that we are happy to instruct. They are leaders in their field and reliable across the board.

They have a number of excellent lawyers both for contentious and advisory work

We do a lot of work with this set and regularly instruct both their Queen’s Counsel and junior counsel. Counsel tend to have good availability and considerable expertise in contentious trust and probate.