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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 200 leading barristers, including 30 KCs. We offer clients an unrivalled breadth and depth of inter-disciplinary expertise.

Awards

Between 2015 and 2023, Garden Court’s awards include:

  • Immigration Set of the Year, Legal 500 Awards 2023
  • Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards (winners in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019 and 2015 and finalists in 2017 and 2016)
  • LexisNexis Awards 2023, Highly Commended
  • Crime Set of the Year, Legal 500 Awards (finalists 2023, 2016 and 2017, winners 2015)
  • Public Law Set of the Year, Legal 500 Awards 2022
  • Outstanding Contribution to Diversity & Inclusion, Finalist, Chambers Bar Awards 2022
  • BSN Lawyer of the Year, UK Diversity Legal Awards 2021
  • 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 2020 and 2019
  • Silk of the Year 2020, Women in Law Awards
  • Crime Silk of the Year, Legal 500 Awards 2019
  • 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; community care law, 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, children's rights law, commercial & business ethics.

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.

Members
  • Laurie Fransman KC (1979) (KC-2000)
  • Henry Blaxland KC (1978) (KC-2002)
  • Icah Peart KC (1978) (KC-2002)
  • Michael Turner KC (1981) (KC-2002)
  • Dexter Dias KC (1988) (KC-2009)
  • James Scobie KC (1984) (KC-2010)
  • Bernard Tetlow KC (1984) (KC-2011)
  • Rajiv Menon KC (1993) (KC-2011)
  • Peter Wilcock KC (1988) (KC-2012)
  • Marc Willers KC (1987) (KC-2014)
  • Leslie Thomas KC (1988) (KC-2014)
  • Stephanie Harrison KC (1991) (KC-2013)
  • Michael Ivers KC (1991) (KC-2016)
  • Clare Wade KC (1990) (KC-2018)
  • Sonali Naik KC (1991) (KC-2018)
  • Amanda Weston KC (1995) (KC-2018)
  • Brenda Campbell KC (2002) (KC-2018)
  • David Emanuel KC (1996) (KC-2019)
  • Keir Monteith KC (1994) (KC-2019)
  • Hossein Zahir KC (2005) (KC-2019)
  • Stephen Simblet KC (1991) (KC-2020)
  • Allison Munroe KC (1992) (KC-2020)
  • Anya Lewis KC (1997) (KC-2021)
  • Sam Robinson KC (2002) (KC-2021)
  • Nicola Braganza KC (1992) (KC-2022)
  • Mark Gatley KC (1993) (KC-2022)
  • Liz Davies KC (1994) (KC-2022)
  • Duran Seddon KC (1994) (KC-2023)
  • Edward Grieves KC (1995) (KC-2023)
  • Irena Sabic KC (2002) (KC-2023)
  • Richard Harvey (1971)
  • Michael House (1972)
  • Marguerite Russell (1972)
  • Sarah Forster (1976)
  • Patrick Roche (1977)
  • Lalith de Kauwe (1978)
  • Kathryn Cronin (1980)
  • Michael Hall (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)
  • Maggie Jones (1990)
  • Malek Wan Daud (1991)
  • Helen Curtis (1992)
  • Valerie Easty (1992)
  • Henry Drayton (1993)
  • Kevin Gannon (1993)
  • Abigail Holt (1993)
  • Rajeev Thacker (1993)
  • Navita Atreya (1994)
  • David Jones (1994)
  • Laura Williams (2017) (Solicitor: 1994)
  • Amina Ahmed (1995)
  • Grace Brown (1995)
  • Gregor Ferguson (1995)
  • Louise Hooper (1997)
  • Patrick Lewis (1997)
  • Sharon Love (1997)
  • Roger Pezzani (1997)
  • Lorna Cservenka (2021) (Solicitor: 1997)
  • Jacqueline Vallejo (1997)
  • Nick Wrack (1997)
  • Adrian Berry (1998)
  • Adrian Marshall Williams (1998)
  • Katherine Marks (1998)
  • Gordon Lee (1998)
  • Emma Favata (1999)
  • Hugh Mullan (1999)
  • Hannah Rought-Brooks (1999)
  • Ronan Toal (1999)
  • Helen Butcher (1999)
  • Ruby Selva (1999)
  • Bojana Asanovic (2000)
  • Courtenay Barklem (2016) (Solicitor: 2000)
  • 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)
  • Tim Baldwin (2001)
  • Desmond Rutledge (2001)
  • Sadat Sayeed (2001)
  • Stella Harris (2002)
  • Victoria Meads (2002)
  • Colin Yeo (2002)
  • Maha Sardar (2002)
  • Jodie Blackstock (2003)
  • Alex Rose (2003)
  • Abigail Smith (2003)
  • Bansi Soni (2003)
  • Tom Wainwright (2003)
  • Abigail Bache (2004)
  • Andrew Eaton (2004)
  • Daniel Jameson (2004)
  • Olamide Ogunrinade (2004)
  • Mark Symes (2004)
  • William Tautz (2004)
  • Joanne Cecil (2005)
  • Justine Compton (2005)
  • Lucie Wibberley (2005)
  • Victoria Burgess (2006)
  • Sarah Hemingway (2006)
  • Stephen Lue (2006)
  • Greg Ó Ceallaigh (2006)
  • Jennifer Twite (2006)
  • Alex Grigg (2007)
  • Kirsten Heaven (2007)
  • Giles Newell (2007)
  • Richard Reynolds (2007)
  • Lee Sergent (2007) (2016)
  • Shahida Begum (2008)
  • Will Bulman (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)
  • Paul Powlesland (2009)
  • Jacob Bindman (2010)
  • Paul Clark (2010)
  • Emma Fenn (2010)
  • Russell Fraser (2010)
  • Michael Goold (2010)
  • Owen Greenhall (2010)
  • Connor Johnston (2010)
  • Gráinne Mellon (2010)
  • Gerwyn Wise (2010)
  • Emma Fitzsimons (2011)
  • James Holmes (2011)
  • Bijan Hoshi (2011)
  • Taimour Lay (2011)
  • Maria Moodie (2011)
  • Catherine Oborne (2011)
  • Alia Akram (2011)
  • Tessa Buchanan (2012)
  • Grace Capel (2012)
  • Una Morris (2012)
  • David Sellwood (2012)
  • Michael Etienne (2012)
  • Nick Bano (2013)
  • Sophie Caseley (2013)
  • Stephen Clark (2013)
  • Tom Copeland (2013)
  • Natasha Shotunde (2013)
  • Susan Wright (2013)
  • Audrey Cherryl Mogan (2014)
  • Ubah Dirie (2014)
  • Katherine Duncan (2014)
  • Sebastian Elgueta (2014)
  • Anthony Forde (2022) (Solicitor: 2014)
  • Monifa Walters-Thompson (2014)
  • Matthew Ahluwalia (2015)
  • Shina Animashaun (2015)
  • Meredoc McMinn (2015)
  • Jennifer Grehan (2016)
  • Zehrah Hasan (2016)
  • Franck Magennis (2016)
  • Danielle Manson (2016)
  • Luke McLean (2017)
  • Angharad Monk (2017)
  • Ollie Persey (2017)
  • Steven Galliver-Andrew (2018)
  • Ella Gunn (2018)
  • Nadia O’Mara (2028)
  • Elena Papamichael (2021) (Solicitor: 2018)
  • Gerard Pitt (2018)
  • Navida Quadi (2018)
  • Rachel Schon (2018)
  • Eva Doerr (2019)
  • Rehab Jaffer (2019)
  • Fatima Jichi (2019)
  • Georgie Rea (2019)
  • Mark Robinson (2020)
  • Alex Schymyck (2020)
  • Isaac Ricca-Richardson (2020)
  • Hannah Lynes (2021)
  • Will Hanson (2021)
  • Stephen Kamlish KC (1979) (KC-2003) *
  • Peter Weatherby KC (1992) (KC-2012) *
  • Anna Morris KC (2006) (KC-2023) *
  • David Watkinson (1972) *
  • Elizabeth Woodcraft (1980) *
  • Mary McKeone (1986) *
  • Alex Sharpe (1988) *
  • Nicos Trimikliniotis (1993) *
  • Dr Mary Malecka (1994) *
  • Shereener Browne (1996) *
  • Paul Troop (1998) *
  • Femi Omere (1999) *
  • Kamran Choudhry (2001) *
  • Sareta Ashraph (2002) *
  • Smitah Shah (2002) *
  • Leto Cariolou (2002) *
  • Jo Wilding (2007) *
  • James Mehigan (2008) *
  • Dr Terry McGuinness (2009)*
  • Dr Hannah Tonkin (2013) *
  • Adrienne Copithorne (2018) *
  • Dr Peter Dunne *
  • Margaret Doyle *
  • Professor Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos *
  • * Associate Tenant

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