Five Paper
Rankings
Awarded leading set in UK Bar 2026
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Overview
Provided by Five Paper
Head of Chambers: Rachel Sleeman
Director of Clerking: David Portch
Tenants: 47
Five Paper is a modern, specialist set of barristers’ chambers in Temple, the heart of legal London. Our barristers specialise in the fields of commercial and property law.
Chambers works with clients from many sectors and believes accessibility, communication and strong relationships are key to delivering excellent results. Senior members are among the most experienced and innovative within their areas of expertise and the chambers’ juniors deal with practical legal matters on a daily basis. This range of experience enables Five Paper to provide clients with a service that is both expert and cost-effective.
Five Paper runs seminars and bespoke training for professional clients. Please contact clerks for details.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Five Paper has two thriving divisions, the Commercial Division and the Property Division.
Commercial Division
Leaders: Rachel Sleeman and Satinder Gill
The Commercial Division is a sector-focused group of leading barristers providing expert advice and litigation services to clients involved in disputes in the below areas of expertise:
- Banking & Finance
- Civil Fraud
- Insolvency & Company
- Employment
- Business Immigration & Regulatory
Property Division
Leader: Stephen Evans
The Property Division is a market leader for legal services in local government and Public Law to social landlords. The Property Division consists of 30 barristers ranked as a leading set for Social Housing with members equally ranked as a Leading Silk/Junior. The Division regularly appears in First tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. This division also includes the below areas of expertise:
- Social Housing
- Public Law
- Landlord & Tenant
- Real Property
- Private Client
RECRUITMENT
Pupils spend time with different practice teams to experience a wide variety of work. Pupils receive an award of £35,000 each plus guaranteed earnings in the second six of £35,000.
Five Paper also encourages applications from barristers with ten or more years’ experience within one of their specialist areas.
Ranked Offices
Provided by Five Paper
UK - Head office
Greater London
5 Paper Buildings Temple , London, Greater London, UK, EC4Y 7HB, London
Ranked Practice Areas
Ranked Barristers
Members
Provided by Five Paper
- Rachel Sleeman (1996)
- Nicholas Grundy KC (1993) (KC-2016)
- Donald Broatch (1971) A
- Terry Gallivan (1981) A
- Ian Wright (1983) A
- Jonathan Rich (1989)
- Peter John OBE (1989)
- Josephine Henderson (1990) A
- Simon Robinson (1991) A ++
- Satinder Gill (1991) A
- Stephen Evans (1992) J
- Shane Crawford (1996) A
- Sean Pettit (1997) A
- Jake Davies (1997) A
- Ben Maltz (1998) A
- Sonia Rai (1998) A
- Angela Hall (2000) J
- Simon Strelitz (2000)
- Julie Leivesley (2000)
- Mary Glass (2001)
- Morwenna Macro (2002) A
- Tina Conlan (2002)
- Gillian Christopher – Chambers JP (2003)
- Jennifer Moate (2006) J
- Millie Polimac (2007) A
- Michael Mullin (2010) JA
- Amardeep Dhillon (2010)
- David Mold (2010) A
- Gita Chakravarty (2010) AJ
- Sam Phillips (2011) A
- Tristan Salter (2013) A
- Elizabeth England (2014) (admitted as a solicitor 2008)
- Daniel Crehan (2014) A
- Laura Williamson (2011) ++
- Roger Laville (2015) admitted as a solicitor (2002)
- Ololade Saromi (2015)
- Gavin Dingley (2015) A
- Ben Leb (2015)
- Joe McBrien (2017)
- Vinesh Mistry (2017) ++
- Tiernan Fitzgibbon (2018)
- Joseph Mahon (2019)
- Scarlet Taylor-Waller (2019)
- Taylor Blair (2019)
- Felix Gibson (2021)
- Serena Lee (2022)
- Thomas Kidney (2022)
- Freyja McLoughlin (2023)
- ++ Door Tenant
- A Public/Direct Access
- J Judge