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UK Bar Guide 2024

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Head of Chambers: Anna Vigars KC
Senior Practice Managers: Oliver Edwards, Lucy Northeast
Civil Clerks: Stephen Arnold, Dan Cuthbertson, Caroline Evans, Olive Kavanagh, Rob McDonald, Joe Stayte, Emily Webb, Jordan Yandell
Crime Clerks: Grant Bidwell, Elena Brake, Michael Cregg, Shannon Winstone
Tenants: 76

WORK UNDERTAKEN 

Banking & Financial:
Mortgages, charges, guarantees & indemnities, third-party securities, Consumer Credit Act issues, receiverships and retail banking transaction. Regulation and compliance, data protection act & GDPR, consumer and business finance, lender and bank liabilities, cryptoassets, crowd funding & peer to peer lending.

Clinical Negligence:
Acting for public and privately funded claimants, the NHSLA, NWSSP, legal and risk services, medical defence organisations, and commercial care providers.

Commercial:
Litigation, banking and finance, civil fraud, recovery of assets, injunctions, competition law, consumer credit, corporate and partnership, professional negligence, sale and supply of goods and services and TCC.

Company Law:
Contracts, partnership and joint ventures, shareholder agreements, the allotment and transfer of shares, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes, derivative claims, just and equitable windings up. Unfair prejudice disputes and director qualification proceedings.

Costs & Litigation Funding:
Inter partes costs disputes and costs issues. Assessment of costs, appeals, and costs management. Enforceability of funding arrangements, coverage and indemnity relating to BTE and ATE insurance.

Crime:
All areas of criminal defence and prosecution work from murder, serious sexual allegations, slavery, terrorism and serious fraud, to road traffic cases, drug and vehicle crime.

Employment & Discrimination:
Unfair, constructive and wrongful dismissal, contractual disputes, actionable discrimination, complex discrimination, whistleblowing & TUPE matters, breach of confidence, equal pay employment status, redundancy and restructuring, professional discipline, industrial action and injunctions.

Insolvency:
Corporate, partnership and personal insolvency, corporate and partnership break-up, and company directors and disqualification.

Personal Injury:
Serious brain injury, chronic pain, psychological injury, product liability, workplace accidents, public liability, motor claims. Complex group claims, inquests and industrial disease. Animals act claims and sports injuries.

Professional Negligence & Indemnity:
Disciplinary proceedings across all professions and at all levels, from healthcare and education sectors, to assisting police officers.

Property, Estates & Planning:
Landlord and tenant, agriculture, trusts, inheritance, wills & probate, estates & commons, towns & village greens. planning appeals and inquiries, enforcements, injunctions, development plan examinations.

Regulatory & Discipline: All aspects of criminal prosecutions, professional disciplinary proceedings and regulation. Internal investigation processes for employers re: disciplinary, grievance, whistleblowing and health and safety issues.

Sport: Disciplinary and regulatory hearings, sports-related contract, professional negligence, commercial, competition, criminal and employment law matters.

Technology & Construction: Payment claims, and enforcement of adjudication decisions. Claims for defective work, delay and disruption and loss and expense claims.

Members
  • Anna Vigars KC (1996) (KC-2017) +
  • Nicholas Davidson KC (1974) (KC-1993) +
  • Richard Smith KC (1986) (KC-2001) +
  • Andrew Langdon KC (1986) (KC-2006) + A
  • Christopher Stoner KC (19991) (KC-2010) ++
  • John Whitting KC (1991) (KC-2011) ++
  • Christopher Quinlan KC (1992) (KC-2011)+ A
  • Hugh Sims KC (1999) A (KC-2014)
  • Selena Plowden KC (1991) (KC-2020)
  • Ray Tully KC (1987) (KC - 2021)
  • Ian Fenny (1978) A
  • William Batstone (1982) A
  • John Virgo (1983)
  • David Scutt (1989)
  • Nicholas Smith (1990)
  • Charles Thomas (1990)
  • Virginia Cornwall (1990)
  • Julian Benson (1991)
  • Anthony Reddiford (1991)
  • Peter Binder (1991)
  • Mark Worsley (1994) A
  • Gabriel Farmer (1994)
  • Richard Ascroft (1995) A
  • Ramin Pakrooh (1996)
  • Adrian Posta (1996)
  • Debbie Grennan (1997)
  • Christopher Hare (1998)
  • Oliver Moore (2005)
  • Julian Allsop (1999)
  • Katie Gibb (1999)
  • Robert Sowersby (2000)
  • Pushpanjali Gohil (2000)
  • Jenny Tallentire (2000)
  • Martin Lanchester (2001) A
  • Stefan Ramel (2002)
  • Douglas Leach (2003)
  • Susan Cavender (2004) A
  • Allan Roberts (2004)
  • James Haskell (2004)
  • Oliver Manley (2005)
  • Mary Cowe (2006)
  • Kerry Gardiner (2006)
  • Michael Selway (2007)
  • Paul Lewis (2007)
  • William Tyzack (2007)
  • Edward Hollingsworth (2007)
  • Lucy Walker (2008)
  • Holly Doyle (2008)
  • Samuel Jones (2008) A
  • James Wibberley (2009) A
  • Simon Passfield (2009)
  • Sophie Holme (2009)
  • Oliver Mitchell (2009)
  • Caighli Taylor (2010)
  • Gregory Gordon (2010)
  • Suzanne Staunton (2010)
  • Geraint Probert (2010)
  • Matthew Brown (2011)
  • Kriti Upadhyay (2011)
  • Jay Jagasia (2012)
  • Alistair Haggerty (2012)
  • James Bentley (2012)
  • James Hannant (2013)
  • Mandla Ndlovu (2015)
  • John Churchill (2016)
  • Manon Rowlands (2016)
  • Philip Hughes (2017)
  • Sophie Walmsley (2017)
  • Nicholas Lee (2018)
  • Nicholas Evans (2018)
  • Govinder Chambay (2018)
  • James Lewis-Bale (2018)
  • Anna Williams (2019)
  • Charlotte Mallin-Martin (2019)
  • Caitlin Evans (2019)
  • James Fuller (2020)

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Costs Litigation
2 Ranked Barristers
Juniors
3
James Wibberley
3
Band 3
3
Oliver Moore
3
Band 3
Independent Investigations
1 Ranked Barrister
Juniors
Debbie Grennan
Spotlight
Personal Injury: Industrial Disease
1 Ranked Barrister
Juniors
2
Anthony Reddiford
2
Band 2
The Regions (Bar)
Sport
1 Set
3 Ranked Barristers
Set
Sport
1
Sport
1
Band 1
Silks (KC)
1
Christopher Quinlan KC
1
Band 1
1
Richard Smith KC
1
Band 1
Juniors
1
Samuel Jones
1
Band 1
Western (Bar)
Agriculture & Rural Affairs
1 Ranked Barrister
Juniors
1
William Batstone
1
Band 1
Banking & Finance
1 Set
5 Ranked Barristers
Set
Banking & Finance
1
Banking & Finance
1
Band 1
Silks (KC)
1
Hugh Sims KC
1
Band 1
Juniors
1
John Virgo
1
Band 1
1
Stefan Ramel
1
Band 1
2
Holly Doyle
2
Band 2
2
Jay Jagasia
2
Band 2
Chancery
1 Set
3 Ranked Barristers
Set
Chancery
1
Chancery
1
Band 1
Silks (KC)
1
Hugh Sims KC
1
Band 1
Juniors
3
Jay Jagasia
3
Band 3
3
Michael Selway
3
Band 3
Clinical Negligence
1 Set
2 Ranked Barristers
Set
Clinical Negligence
1
Clinical Negligence
1
Band 1
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