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Senior Clerk: Jamie Clack

Clerks: Matthew Goodwill, Danielle Smith

Tenants: 19

Door Tenants: 5


THE CHAMBERS Civitas Law is an award-winning, leading specialist civil and public law barristers’ chambers serving clients across Wales and England. It believes clients are best served by a set of highly specialist lawyers offering excellence and innovation in advisory work, drafting, mediation and advocacy.


With the support of its dedicated, experienced and highly responsive clerks and client support teams, barristers are able to provide a full range of counsel services in

  • Personal injury and clinical negligence;
  • Employment;
  • Public, planning and regulatory;
  • Housing
  • Immigration
  • Police Law
  • Inquests and public inquiries
  • Chancery, business and consumer law; and
  • ADR matters.

The wide range of experience within each group allows them to work successfully with clients from small track cases to a complex appeal. The set continues to develop its reputation by attracting the best of the Bar and aims to provide a cutting edge service whilst maintaining traditions of independence and integrity. The set works closely with its professional clients to ensure that chambers’ services are tailored to their unique requirements and business objectives. Among its members are barristers and former barristers who act as mediators and arbitrators and are appointed as Treasury Counsel, to the Attorney General’s Panel and as counsel to the Welsh Government. Civitas Law has set itself for the highest standards in the delivery of services to its clients; that of excellence. The set aims to be professional and approachable and to provide legal advice which is clear and easily understood by lay clients.


WORK UNDERTAKEN Personal injury and clinical negligence; chancery, business and consumer law; employment; administrative and public law; company, commercial and insolvency; construction, planning and environment; education; housing; immigration, asylum and nationality; inquests and inquiries; police law; professional discipline; property and land; regulatory, health and safety & licencing; sports law; wills, trusts and probate; ADR.


Offices

The Mews, 38 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9LL

Tel: 02920 375020

Email: [email protected]

Members
  • Bryan Thomas (1978)
  • Jonathan Walters (1984)
  • Graham Walters (1986) *
  • Nicholas David Jones (1987)
  • Mair Coombes Davies (1988) *
  • Lucy King (1992)
  • Anthony Vines (1993) A
  • Elizabeth Marshall (1995)*
  • Joanne Williams (1999)
  • Christopher Howells (1999)
  • Richard Cole (2000)
  • Matthew Graham Paul (2000) A
  • Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (2004)*
  • Victoria Hillier (2005)*
  • Rebecca Mansell (2005)
  • Cathrine Grubb (2007)A
  • Dan Dyson (2007)
  • Kate Parker (2010) A
  • Owain Rhys James (2011) A
  • Alys Williams (2016)
  • Dominic Evans (2016)
  • Isabelle Knight (2019)
  • Crash Wigley (2021)
  • A Public/Direct Access
  • * Door Tenant

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Administrative & Public Law
1 Ranked Barrister
Juniors
2
Owain Rhys James
2
Band 2
Inquests & Public Inquiries
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Juniors
2
Richard Cole
2
Band 2
Wales & Chester (Bar)
Chancery
1 Ranked Barrister
Juniors
2
Owain Rhys James
2
Band 2
Clinical Negligence
1 Ranked Barrister
Juniors
1
Victoria Hillier
1
Band 1
Commercial Dispute Resolution
1 Set
4 Ranked Barristers
Set
Commercial Dispute Resolution
1
Commercial Dispute Resolution
1
Band 1
Juniors
1
Anthony Vines
1
Band 1
1
Dan Dyson
1
Band 1
1
Kate Parker
1
Band 1
1
Owain Rhys James
1
Band 1
Employment
1 Set
4 Ranked Barristers
Set
Employment
1
Employment
1
Band 1
Juniors
1
Chris Howells
1
Band 1
1
Jonathan Walters
1
Band 1
2
Joanne Williams
2
Band 2
3
Anthony Vines
3
Band 3
Immigration
1 Ranked Barrister
Juniors
1
Owain Rhys James
1
Band 1
Personal Injury
1 Set
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Personal Injury
1
Personal Injury
1
Band 1
Juniors
1
Nicholas David Jones
1
Band 1
2
Rebecca Mansell
2
Band 2
Real Estate Litigation
3 Ranked Barristers
Juniors
1
Anthony Vines
1
Band 1
1
Kate Parker
1
Band 1
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