Garden Court Chambers
About
Heads of Chambers: Stephanie Harrison KC, Rajiv Menon KC, Liz Davies KC
Director of Clerking: Colin Cook
Deputy Director of Clerking and Immigration Practice Manager: Lisa O'Leary
Senior Crime Team Practice Manager: Charlie Tenant
Senior Civil Liberties & Housing Practice Manager: Tim Hempsted
Civil Liberties & Housing Practice Manager: Joe Fraser
Senior Public Law and Social Welfare Practice Manager: Gavin John
Family Practice Manager: Nick Constantinou
Immigration Practice Manager: Harriet Massie
THE CHAMBERS
Garden Court Chambers is a number one ranked barristers’ chambers committed to fighting injustice, defending human rights and upholding the rule of law. We advise solicitors, members of the public, organisations and businesses across the UK and around the world.
Our motto, ‘Do right, fear no one’, embodies our longstanding ethos: we are dedicated to fighting your corner, no matter how powerful the opponent.
Garden Court has a proud history of winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance. Our legal challenges have overturned great injustices in many landmark decisions.
Equally, our barristers fight hard for clients in countless cases that don’t hit the headlines, but are nonetheless vital for defending the rights of those we represent.
We are the largest barristers’ chambers in London with over 210 leading barristers, including 28 KCs. We offer clients an unrivalled breadth and depth of inter-disciplinary expertise.
Awards
Between 2015 and 2022, Garden Court’s awards include:
- Public Law Set of the Year, Legal 500 Awards 2022
- Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards (winners in 2022, 2021, 2019 and 2015 and finalists in 2017 and 2016)
- Silk of the Year 2020, Women in Law Awards
- Crime Silk of the Year, Legal 500 Awards 2019
- Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year, Finalist, Chambers Bar Awards 2021 and 2019
- Outstanding Contribution to Diversity & Inclusion, Winners, Chambers Bar Awards 2019 and 2020
- Crime Set of the Year, Legal 500 Awards (finalists 2016 and 2017, winners 2015)
- Crime Set of the Year, Chambers Bar Awards (finalist 2021)
- Public Law Set of the Year 2017, Legal 500 Awards (finalists)
- Human Rights and Public Law Set of the Year 2016, Chambers UK Bar Awards
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Modern Law Awards 2016
Types of work undertaken: Administrative and public law; civil liberties and human rights (claims against the police and public authorities; immigration detention civil claims; inquests and inquiries, protest law and prison law); social welfare; Court of Protection; criminal defence; education; employment and discrimination law; environmental law; extradition law; family law (Children law, financial remedies and international family law); fraud; housing law; immigration law (asylum and human rights, business and private); mental health law; planning law; property law; regulatory law; Romani Gypsy and Traveller rights; welfare benefits, Youth Justice and child rights.
Garden Court International provides advice, representation and training to clients worldwide on best practice in criminal law and procedure, international human rights and humanitarian law.
Garden Court Mediation provides an alternative dispute resolution service in all types of civil disputes.
Many Garden Court Chambers’ barristers are eligible to accept work directly from lay clients as part of the public access scheme.
- Henry Blaxland KC (1978) (KC-2002)
- Icah Peart KC (1978) (KC-2002)
- Laurie Fransman KC (1979) (KC-2000)
- Stephen Kamlish KC (1979) (KC-2003)
- Michael Turner KC (1981) (KC-2002)
- James Scobie KC (1984) (KC-2010)
- Bernard Tetlow KC (1984) (KC-2011)
- Marc Willers KC (1987) (KC-2014)
- Dexter Dias KC (1988) (KC-2009)
- Leslie Thomas KC (1988) (KC-2014)
- Peter Wilcock KC (1988) (KC-2012)
- Judy Khan KC (1989) (KC-2010)
- Stephanie Harrison KC (1991) (KC-2013)
- Stephen Simblet KC (1991) (Silk)
- Mark Gatley KC (1993)
- Michael Ivers KC (1991) (KC-2016)
- Nicola Braganza KC (1992)
- Rajiv Menon KC (1993) (KC-2011)
- Clare Wade KC (1990) (KC-2018)
- Sonali Naik KC (1991) (KC-2018)
- Allison Munroe KC (1992)
- Amanda Weston KC (1995) (KC-2018)
- Brenda Campbell KC (2002) (KC-2018)
- Keir Monteith KC (1994) (KC-2019)
- Liz Davies KC (1994)
- David Emanuel KC (1996) (KC-2019)
- Hossein Zahir KC (2005) (KC-2019)
- Anya Lewis KC (1997) (2021)
- Sam Robinson KC (2002) (2021)
- Richard Harvey (1971)
- Michael House (1972)
- Marguerite Russell (1972)
- Sarah Forster (1976)
- Patrick Roche (1977)
- Lalith de Kauwe (1978)
- Ben Beaumont (1978)
- Kathryn Cronin (1980)
- Celia Graves (1981)
- Michael Hall (1983)
- Ravinder Rahal (1983)
- Stephen Cottle (1984)
- Nerida Harford-Bell (1984)
- Peter Jorro (1986)
- Amanda Meusz (1986)
- Sorrel Dixon (1987)
- Christopher Williams (1988)
- William (Bill) Evans (1988)
- Piers Mostyn (1989)
- Alistair Polson (1989)
- Alex Taylor-Camara (1989)
- Rebecca Chapman (1990)
- Edward Fitzpatrick (1990)
- Bethan Harris (1990)
- Carol Hawley (1990)
- Colin Hutchinson (1990)
- Maggie Jones (1990)
- Dinah Loeb (1990) (2004)
- Peter Rowlands (1990)
- Malek Wan Daud (1991)
- Helen Curtis (1992)
- Valerie Easty (1992)
- Alastair Edie (1992)
- Henry Drayton (1993)
- Kevin Gannon (1993)
- Abigail Holt (1993)
- Rajeev Thacker (1993)
- Navita Atreya (1994)
- David Jones (1994)
- Duran Seddon (1994)
- Amina Ahmed (1995)
- Grace Brown (1995)
- Gregor Ferguson (1995)
- Edward Grieves (1995)
- Sean Horstead (1996)
- Birinder Kang (1996)
- Louise Hooper (1997)
- Patrick Lewis (1997)
- Sharon Love (1997)
- Roger Pezzani (1997)
- Jacqueline Vallejo (1997)
- Nick Wrack (1997)
- Adrian Berry (1998)
- Adrian Marshall Williams (1998)
- Katherine Marks (1998)
- Mai-Ling Savage (1998)
- Paul Troop (1998)
- Rebekah Wilson (1998)
- Emma Favata (1999)
- Hugh Mullan (1999)
- Hannah Rought-Brooks (1999)
- Ronan Toal (1999)
- Helen Butcher (1999)
- Minka Braun (2000)
- Ed Elliott (2000)
- Catherine O’Donnell (2000)
- Sam Parham (2000)
- Marina Sergides (2000)
- Christian Wasunna (2000)
- Felicity Williams (2000)
- Kate Aubrey-Johnson (2001)
- Allison Bailey (2001)
- Tim Baldwin (2001)
- Desmond Rutledge (2001)
- Sadat Sayeed (2001)
- Stella Harris (2002)
- Victoria Meads (2002)
- Irena Sabic (2002)
- Colin Yeo (2002)
- Maha Sardar (2002)
- Alex Rose (2003)
- Abigail Smith (2003)
- Bansi Soni (2003)
- Tom Wainwright (2003)
- Abigail Bache (2004)
- Andrew Eaton (2004)
- Davina Krishnan (2004)
- Christopher McWatters (2004)
- Mark Symes (2004)
- William Tautz (2004)
- Joanne Cecil (2005)
- Justine Compton (2005)
- Stephen Marsh (2005)
- Lucie Wibberley (2005)
- Sarah Hemingway (2006)
- Artis Kakonge (2006)
- Stephen Lue (2006)
- Anna Morris (2006)
- Ann Osborne (Solicitor - 2006) (2016)
- Greg Ó Ceallaigh (2006)
- Victoria Burgess (2006)
- Alex Grigg (2007)
- Kirsten Heaven (2007)
- Giles Newell (2007)
- Richard Reynolds (2007)
- Jo Wilding (2007)
- Shahida Begum (2008)
- Helen Foot (2008)
- Gemma Loughran (2008)
- David Renton (2008)
- Hannah Wyatt (2008)
- Lyndsey Sambrooks-Wright (2008)
- Ali Bandegani (2009)
- Raza Halim (2009)
- Thalia Maragh (2009)
- Jacob Bindman (2010)
- Paul Clark (2010)
- Emma Fenn (2010)
- Russell Fraser (2010)
- Michael Goold (2010)
- Owen Greenhall (2010)
- Connor Johnston (2010)
- Grainne Mellon (2010)
- Gerwyn Wise (2010)
- Bijan Hoshi (2011)
- Emma Fitzsimons (2011)
- Taimour Lay (2011)
- Maria Moodie (2011)
- Catherine Oborne (2011)
- James Holmes (2011)
- Naomi Wiseman (2011)
- Nisha Bambhra (2011)
- Alia K.A. Mohammad (2011)
- David Sellwood (2012)
- Tessa Buchanan (2012)
- Grace Capel (2012)
- Una Morris (2012)
- Tom Copeland (2013)
- Susan Wright (2013)
- Sebastian Elgueta (2014)
- Stephen Clark (2013)
- Sophie Caseley (2013)
- Audrey Cherryl Mogan (2014)
- Sebastian Elgueta (2014)
- Katherine Duncan (2014)
- Monifa Walters-Thompson (2014)
- Meredoc McMinn (2015)
- Tihomir Mak (2016)
- Courtenay Barklem (2016)
- Navida Quadi (2018)
- Mark George KC (1976) (KC-2009) *
- Peter Weatherby KC (1992) (KC-2012) *
- Gul Nawaz Mahboob Hussain KC (2000) (KC-2018)
- David Watkinson (1980) *
- Elizabeth Woodcraft (1980) *
- Mary McKeone (1986) *
- Alex Sharpe (1988)*
- Nicos Trimikliniotis (1993) *
- Dr Mary Malecka (1994) *
- Smitah Shah (2002) *
- Anthony Harrison (2004)*
- Terry McGuinness (2009)*
- Dr Hannah Tonkin (2013) *
- Adrienne Copithorne (2018)*
- Dr Peter Dunne*
- Professor Kathleen Lahey*
- Professor Iyiola Solanke*
- * Associate Tenant
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