Deans Court Chambers

With an ‘excellent range of counsel of all seniority’, Deans Court Chambers continues to lead on prominent inquests and inquiries on the Northern Circuit. ’A very accomplished advocate’, Sophie Cartwright KC has played a notable role in the Manchester Arena inquiry and continues to lead on a range of judicial reviews and inquests. With strength and depth of experience at the junior level, the set can employ the abilities of Elizabeth Dudley-Jones, who is regularly instructed by local authorities and other public bodies to lead on of very high-profile inquests, with recent work including the inquest touching the death of Brianna Ghey, and Peter Smith, who has a practice that is primarily focuses on inquests into complex deaths in care matters. Also leading on inquests and inquires in the set are Oliver Carr, who leads on behalf of bereaved families and has been praised for his ‘painstaking preparation and focused advocacy’, as well as Tom Gent and Virginia Hayton, who have recently been instructed on a number of inquests concerning deaths in care, a number of which relate to the possible engagement of ECHR Article 2.