Hailsham Chambers

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Awarded leading set in UK Bar 2026

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Overview

Provided by Hailsham Chambers

Head of Chambers: Nicola Rushton KC

Senior Clerk: Stephen Smith

Tenants: 58

THE CHAMBERS Hailsham Chambers strives to provide clients with excellent service. The award winning set is frequently praised for its friendly and helpful clerking, the quality of its members’ work and for its reliability. Established more than 100 years ago and today offering 58 barristers, 10 of whom are silks, Hailsham Chambers contains many of the most sought-after barristers at the London Bar. The set’s progressive thinking and use of modern technologies help chambers to run efficiently and to offer clients choice and flexibility.

WORK UNDERTAKEN Hailsham acts for claimants and defendants, providing advice and representation before all levels of courts and tribunals throughout the world, in the specialist areas of:

Professional Liability: In cases involving lawyers, accountants, auditors, surveyors, valuers, financial professionals and trustees, as well as advising about professional indemnity insurance coverage points.

Clinical Negligence: Acting for patients and their relatives and dependants, trusts, doctors, dentists, healthcare professionals, health authorities, private hospitals and clinics in civil litigation, at inquests and in the Court of Protection.

Costs Litigation: Involving points of principle and advising in disputes between solicitor and client, retainers, funding arrangements, DBAs, CFAs and costs budgets.

Professional Discipline: Advice and advocacy before tribunals and regulatory bodies, both medical and non-medical.

Personal Injury: Acting for claimants and defendants and their insurers in RTA claims and claims based upon employer’s, occupier’s, public and product liability, with an emphasis on cases of high value and complexity.

Commercial Dispute Resolution: Acting in general commercial matters such as insurance claims, fraud and partnership disputes.

To find out about the availability of counsel, please contact Hailsham’s clerking team on 020 7643 5000 or by email at [email protected].

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UK - Head office

Greater London

4 Paper Buildings (Ground Floor) Temple , London, Greater London, UK, EC4Y 7EX, London

www.hailshamchambers.com

(020) 7643 5000

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Members

Provided by Hailsham Chambers

  • Nicholas Davidson KC (1974) (KC-1993)
  • David Pittaway KC (1977) (KC-2000)
  • Dominic Nolan KC (1985) (KC-2006)
  • Julian Picton KC (1988) (KC-2010)
  • William Flenley KC (1988) (KC-2010)
  • Simon Howarth KC (1991) (KC-2022)
  • Alexander Hutton KC (1992) (KC-2012)
  • Nicola Rushton KC (1993) (KC-2018)
  • Jamie Carpenter KC (2000) (KC-2020)
  • Simon Wilton (1993) (KC-2024)
  • Jane Mishcon (1979)
  • Matthew Jackson (1986)
  • Francis Bacon (1988)
  • Nicholas Peacock (1992)
  • Sarah Christie-Brown (1994)
  • Catherine Ewins (1995)
  • Dan Stacey (1996)
  • Andrew Hogan (1996)
  • Dr Mark Friston (1997)
  • Dr Peter Ellis (1997)
  • Eva Ferguson (1999)
  • Joshua Munro (2001)
  • James Gilberthorpe (2002)
  • Lucy MacKinnon (2003)
  • Margaret Griffin (2004)
  • Imran Benson (2005)
  • Alice Nash (2006)
  • Henry Bankes-Jones (2004)
  • Niamh O’Reilly (2007)
  • Heather McMahon (1999)
  • Stephen Bailey (2006)
  • David Juckes (2008)
  • Justin Meiland (2010)
  • Nicholas Pilsbury (2008)
  • Thomas Crockett (2009)
  • Nicola Campbell-Clause (2010)
  • Richard Anderton (2010)
  • Erica Bedford (2012)
  • Clementine Coram James (2012)
  • Alicia Tew (2012)
  • David Story (2012)
  • Jack Steer (2013)
  • Jake Coleman (2013)
  • Michael Patrick (2014)
  • Clare Elliott (2015)
  • Alexander Echlin (2017)
  • Lucile Taylor (2018)
  • Tom Stafford (2018)
  • Christopher Cooke (2018)
  • Joe Docherty (2019)
  • Bramble Badenach-Nicolson (2019)
  • Thomas Phillips (2021)
  • Thomas Mason (2022)
  • Connor Jones (2021)
  • Lewis Dunsmure (2021)
  • Clare Parkhouse (2022)
  • Amy Chapman (2022)
  • Oliver Brewis (2024)

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