Henderson Chambers is ‘a strong set with an established pedigree in health and safety, with recognised expert counsel at all levels of seniority’. Oliver Campbell KC is ‘an excellent communicator with a thorough and endearing pragmatic approach to achieve best results’. In recent instructions for the team, Prashant Popat KC and Christopher Adams successfully acted for the defendants in a Health and Safety at Work Act prosecution concerning a triple fatality arising from a tower crane collapse. Anna Medvinskaia joined the team in September 2025.
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Work Department

Commercial litigation and arbitration, health & safety,public and EU, product liability, consumer credit  and property.

Position

Barrister

Career

Called in 2014. Christopher practises in all areas of Chambers’ work, with an emphasis on commercial litigation and arbitration, health & safety, public and EU, consumer credit and product liability. He is regularly instructed both as a junior and in his own right, appearing in the County and Crown Courts. Prior to pupillage he worked as a paralegal specialising in health and safety and financial regulatory law, and has been involved in a number of international commercial arbitrations since taking tenancy. He has assisted senior counsel in advising foreign clients on matters relating to EU competition law and Article 6 ECHR (the right to a fair trial), as well as advising in his own right on the so-called 'right to be forgotten' and the EU Data Protection law.

Languages

German

Memberships

COMBAR, ALBA, HSLA

Education

Christopher graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a double first in English. He came top of his year for the CPE in Legal Studies at LSBU, and was graded Very Competent for the BPTC at BPP law school. He is also an accredited mediator.

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  • 'The clerking team are very good, helpful and knowledgeable.'
  • 'The health and safety practitioners at Henderson Chambers are leaders in the field.'
  • 'The Henderson team is led by some of the most recognisable names in the field of health and safety law.'
  • 'Henderson Chambers is the very best for health and safety work.'
  • 'Henderson Chambers is and has been for many years a leading, if not the leading, health and safety set.'
  • 'Henderson have a good range of advocates in health and safety.'