Set Profile > Church Court Chambers > London, England
Church Court Chambers Offices
Church Court Chambers
2ND FLOOR, GOLDSMITH BUILDINGS
TEMPLE, LONDON
EC4Y 7BL
England
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Church Court Chambers > The Legal 500 Rankings
Crime
Leading Silks
Leading Juniors
Set overviews: England and Wales
Church Court Chambers in London has expertise across the gamut of criminal law matters, as well as civil, immigration, family, regulatory, art and culture, and sports law.Clerks:
Testimonials
Clerks:
‘Always helpful and willing to assist with requests.’
‘As the Senior clerks, Rod and Dan are brilliant in terms of their communication and client care – no hesitation in calling them when issues arise, they deal with any issues promptly and efficiently.’
‘Brilliant, Dan Bartlett and Rod McGurk are amazing.’
‘Excellent clerks, best in London.’
‘I have a very good relationship with the clerks having known them for many years. They are always there to help. Rod and Dave are invaluable to the Chambers.’
‘The clerks are superb within this set. The service provided is at the utmost highest. They do not disappoint. The clerks will endeavour to provide the availability of counsel sought to be instructed.’
Set:
‘A great set with a variety of barristers available from the senior to junior end.’
‘Chambers as a whole are an excellent set. I have instructed various other chambers in the past where counsel who are instructed are no longer available on the case. However, with Church Court Chambers, the experience level of experience of counsel is wide and therefore with any counsel instructed from this set, you feel that they will always work thorough on the matter without any disappointment. Counsel at Church Court do no abandoned cases. When assistance is required from any counsel such as a point of law to be discussed where counsel is not instructed, counsel from this set will always assist.’
‘Chambers has great depth of talent, from some very promising juniors right through to some of the leading counsel and Silks – inevitably, I perceive that some counsel are better than or better suited to some case than others and in that respect having complete confidence in the leadership team and clerks is imperative, I greatly enjoy working with Chambers, and have complete confidence in the expertise of their Senior Clerks who pride themselves on a well-organised and efficient set.’
‘Church Court Chambers has developed from a small set of Chambers into a Chambers which handles some of the most high profile cases in the jurisdiction and internationally.’
‘Church Court is different from those sets which maintain ranked position based on their name alone in that the barristers there from the most junior upwards are willing to take on the most challenging cases to develop the law when such cases may be rejected from the “establishment” sets.’
‘Excellent chambers with a range of brilliant barristers.’
‘Excellent set, good strength in depth, well clerked.’
‘Extremely good set of chambers who deal with serious, high profile cases.’
Church Court Chambers > Set Profile
Church Court Chambers is a leading multidisciplinary set with a proud reputation for being professional, approachable and modern. Chambers members, including 5 Queens Counsel and 45 Juniors, enjoy busy and varied practices; collectively they have an enviable back catalogue of high-profile and complex matters such as the Luton Slavery Trial, the Jimmy Savile Inquiry and The Marrache Fraud Case. They have appeared at every level, including in the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Individually they are all highly regarded and respected by their peers and the judiciary. The head of chambers, Kerim Fuad QC, leads chambers with professionalism and pride; under his stewardship chambers has quickly grown to become a powerhouse set enjoying continued expansion without compromising on quality or integrity.
The set: Members are supported by a dedicated and efficient clerks room led by Daniel Bartlett and Rod McGurk who ensures chambers meet the needs of the sets professional and lay clients in an ever-changing legal environment. Many members of chambers can be instructed, where appropriate, directly through the public access scheme.
Types of work undertaken: Chambers main practice areas are crime, regulatory, extradition, immigration, family, and civil law. However, many individual members have their own areas of specialism, including courts martial, sports law and inquests, to name but a few. In addition to traditional advocacy and advisory services, many members of Church Court Chambers lecture in their respective field of expertise and are published authors, including contributors to practitioner texts. In addition, many of the sets members sit on committees, including the executive of the Criminal Bar Association, and are pupil supervisors and advocacy trainers, demonstrating chambers commitment to the profession.
The criminal team consists of a number of talented leading and junior counsel who represent clients in the full spectrum of criminal offences, including murder, fraud, terrorism, drug importation, cyber crime, slavery and sexual offences. Previous matters have included the first slavery trial in England, the first slavery trial in Wales and Twomey, the first non-jury trial. Murder trials have included Damilola Taylor, the Three Cooks Bakery murder and the cockney hit man trial. Recent financial crime instructions include a multimillion-pound trading standards prosecution, advising the European subsidiary of an international finance company (with $2.5bn holdings) on insider trading and seven members of chambers being instructed in a paper-heavy and complex fraud perpetrated against the government. Court of Appeal and Supreme Court instructions have resulted in chambers being involved in the leading authorities on confiscation, hearsay and disclosure.
The civil team at Church Court Chambers are able to draw on a wide range of knowledge and experience in dealing with all forms of civil and commercial disputes. Alongside their expertise as advocates, members provide full advisory services, both written and oral, from the initial stage of consideration of the merits of proposed litigation to the drafting of pleadings and settlement negotiations. Clients and opponents have included high-profile companies and internationally recognised brands. At the junior end, solicitors routinely observe that members have experience and skill beyond their year of call.
The family team consists of experienced and flexible juniors covering all aspects of family law; collectively they provide an expert advisory and advocacy service. The team includes Ivor Frank, who was recently appointed to the high-profile independent inquiry into child sex abuse. Members of chambers have a wide range of experience, from intractable hostility contact cases to child abduction to foreign jurisdictions and wardship matters.
The immigration team is committed in an ever-changing landscape to fearlessly representing clients in the full range of immigration matters, including judicial review, often demonstrating empathy and compassion in contrast to the position adopted by the government. Chambers lectures routinely in this area and members have appeared in the First and Upper Tier Tribunals, High Court and Court of Appeal.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Senior clerk | Daniel Bartlett | ||
Practice director | Rod McGurk | ||
Members of Chambers | FUAD QC, Kerim (1992) | ||
Members of Chambers | CAREY HUGHES QC, Richard (1977) | ||
Members of Chambers | MATHER-LEES QC, Michael (1981) | ||
Members of Chambers | MALIK QC, Amjad (1987) | ||
Members of Chambers | POWER QC, Lewis (1990) | ||
Door Tenant | VASQUEZ QC, Robert | ||
Door Tenant | ENOCH QC, Dafydd | ||
Door Tenant | HARPER QC, Mark | ||
Members of Chambers | EVANS, Alun (1971) | ||
Members of Chambers | FRANK, Ivor (1980) | ||
Member of Chambers | SHALE, Justin (1982) | ||
Members of Chambers | MANLEY, Lesley (1983) | ||
Members of Chambers | JOHNSTON, Christopher (1983) | ||
Members of Chambers | TAYLOR, Andrew (1984) | ||
Members of Chambers | BRAIN, Pamela (1985) | ||
Member of Chambers | CLARKE, Michelle (1988) | ||
Members of Chambers | BIGNALL, Paula (1989) | ||
Members of Chambers | McCARRAHER, Colin (1990) | ||
Members of Chambers | FULLERTON, Mike (1990) | ||
Members of Chambers | BAILEY, Stephen (1991) | ||
Members of Chambers | BALANCY, Alex (1992) | ||
Door Tenant | FAIRCLOUGH, Sarah (1992) | ||
Members of Chambers | HARRIS, Glenn (1994) | ||
Door Tenant | HELLER, Anne (1995) | ||
Members of Chambers | NEWCOMBE, Robert (1996) | ||
Members of Chambers | ESPRIT, Shaun (1996) | ||
Member of Chambers | JONES, Andrew (1996) | ||
Members of Chambers | PARTRIDGE, Richard (1997) | ||
Members of Chambers | SHENYUZ, Alkan (1997) | ||
Members of Chambers | MOLLOY, Kevin (1999) | ||
Member of Chambers | HEPBURNE SCOTT, George (1999) | ||
Member of Chambers | BOATENG-ADDO, Edward (2000) | ||
Members of Chambers | MAHTAB-SHAIKH, Sumita (2001) | ||
Members of Chambers | WILLIAMSON, Guy (2002) | ||
Members of Chambers | PABARY, Rajesh (2002) | ||
Members of Chambers | PATEL, Yasin (2002) | ||
Members of Chambers | WEBB, Paul (2003) | ||
Door Tenant | GRIMWOOD, Oliver (2003) | ||
Door Tenant | KAZANTZIS, Philip (2004) | ||
Door Tenant | ABDULROUF, Mizan (2007) | ||
Members of Chambers | WASS, Krystelle (2007) | ||
Members of Chambers | ELLIOTT, Simon (2007) | ||
Members of Chambers | CANESSA, Patrick (2007) | ||
Members of Chambers | PRYOR, Alison (2008) | ||
Members of Chambers | LOUGHLIN, Liam (2008) | ||
Members of Chambers | MOHABIR, Richard (2009) | ||
Members of Chambers | McGARVEY, Tomas (2010) | ||
Members of Chambers | WITCHER, Colin (2010) | ||
Members of Chambers | MADDOCKS, Chiara (2011) | ||
Members of Chambers | McADDY, Fiona (2011) | ||
Members of Chambers | TINSLEY, Alex (2011) | ||
Members of Chambers | ESKANDER, Anthony (2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | POLAK, Michael (2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | THORNBER, Estelle (2012) | ||
Members of Chambers | STOCKWELL, Sam (2012) | ||
Member of Chambers | Mc ELVOGUE, Ciara (2013) | ||
Member of Chambers | KEMISH, Judi (2015) | ||
Member of Chambers | CONSTANTINIDE, Diana (2017) |