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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Consumer, financial services, commercial, regulatory and life sciences
Position
Specialist in consumer and regulatory law, including e-commerce and digital rights, unfair trading, advertising and financial services.
- Acts for online platforms, high street retailers, regulators and government agencies.
- Regularly instructed in cases involving complex questions of EU law and public law.
- Holds a first class LL.M degree from the University of Cambridge.
- Was a visiting lawyer at the European Commission (Consumer Enforcement Unit).
- Taught EU law at the London School of Economics (having previously worked as a research assistant there).
Publications
- Author of the ‘Advertising’ chapter and co-author of the ’Consumer Rights’ chapter in ‘Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice’ (Lexis)
- Contributing editor of ‘The Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law’ (Sweet & Maxwell)
- Co-author (with Professor Riefa) of the ‘Consumer Law on the Internet’ chapter in ’Gringras: The Laws of the Internet’ (Bloomsbury Professional, 2022)
Languages
Fluent in English, Russian and Swedish. Working knowledge of French.
Memberships
- Bar Council European Committee
- Bar European Group
- UK Association for European Law
- Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association
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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.'