Gough Square Chambers

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

• 'The clerks are excellent. They are very responsive and helpful. We have been particularly impressed recently with Richard Bryant.'
• 'The service is very slick efficient - probably the best across the chambers we deal with. Jack Bradshaw in particular deserves high praise. He is very responsive even when out of hours and is proactive in making sure papers are received and sent onto counsel and invoices rendered quickly.'
• 'Service of the clerks room is excellent. Bob Weekes and Jack Bradshaw are always responsive.'
• 'Gough Square are the go to chambers for a number of our financial services clients. This is because they are able to provide counsel with vast experience who are specialists in this area.'
• 'Gough Square is the go-to set for consumer credit issues. They have fantastic strength in depth and deep expertise in this area (and consumer issues more generally).'

Lawyers

Leading silks

KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.

5

Jonathan Kirk KC

‘Advocacy stands out as a key strength amongst his peers. He his focused on simplifying his submissions to ensure the key points do not get lost in a very complicated area of law. He manages to get get the all key points across without losing the detail and has a knack of doing so with an extremely likeable demeanour.’

Leading juniors

Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.

2

Iain MacDonald

‘Iain has particular in-depth knowledge of matters relating to the CCA. His advocacy style is calm, measured but forceful.’

2

Stephen Neville

‘Stephen's knowledge is exceptional, and he\'s always able to provide extremely clear and robust advice on key, complex issues.' 

2

Fred Philpott

 

2

Simon Popplewell

‘Simon is a star of the Bar. He is extremely quick and very easy to work with; his analysis is second to none and his advocacy is compelling. It is like having a second silk on a case. I cannot recommend Simon strongly enough.’

2

Kate Urell

‘Kate is fantastic at distilling technically complex areas of law into easy to understand advice, and explaining the consequences of issues in this area in a commercially focused manner.’  

3

Julian Gun Cuninghame

Excellent technical knowledge – plainly knows his stuff and is comfortable with the intricacies of consumer credit law.’

4

Lee Finch

‘Even when a case is not in the strongest position Lee has a way of reassuring clients, finding a strategic alternative and has had many successes for a number of clients. His advocacy is clear and persuasive – he adapts his style for when he is dealing with litigants in person which goes down well with banking clients.’

4

Sabrina Goodchild

‘Sabrina is very easy to talk to and to provide her thoughts on the strengths and weaknesses of the case in front of her. She has a wealth of knowledge both of financial services issues but also procedure.’

4

Robin Kingham

Robin gives clear and practical advice. He has an open and disarming style that is very persuasive.’

4

Anna Medvinskaia

Able to quickly get to grips with the facts of the case and then able to condense down into well structured written submissions/skeleton arguments. Clearly an expert in the field and knows the topic inside out.’

4

James Ross