Tanfield Chambers
UK Bar Guide 2025
About
Heads of Chambers: Philip Rainey KC and Andrew Butler KC
Chief Executive: Walter Womersley
Tenants: 59
THE CHAMBERS Tanfield is a specialist business and property set and a ‘force to be reckoned with’ in real estate litigation. Operating from its own member-owned premises just outside Gray’s Inn, Tanfield adopts a flexible and ‘unfussy’ approach, and is committed to excellent client care. All members, from its silks to its ‘junior juniors’ pride themselves on being open, friendly and approachable and are supported by a responsive and helpful practice management team.
WORK UNDERTAKEN Tanfield has built on its long-standing reputation as the leading set for the specialist field of enfranchisement and residential property to broaden its expertise on all commercial property disciplines.
Other areas of core expertise include general commercial disputes and private client.
Members of chambers write and lecture widely on real property issues and related topics. Recent/forthcoming publications include:Service Charges and Management: Law and Practice, (4th ed); Where is my boundary? (Nicholas Isaac KC); Business Premises: Possession & Lease Renewal — 6th Edition (Daniel Dovar)
The majority of members accept direct access instructions in appropriate cases.
- Philip Rainey (1990) MCI Arb (KC-2010) A
- Christopher Heather KC (1995) (KC-2017) A
- Iain Mitchell KC (Scotland) (1976 Scotland) (2012 England) (KC Scotland-1992) A
- Andrew Butler KC (2018)
- Timothy Polli KC (2018)
- Nicholas Isaac KC (2019)
- David Guy (1972) FCI Arb A
- Nigel Meares (1975)
- Charles Joseph (1980) FCI Arb A
- Edward Denehan (1981)
- Sebastian Reid (1982) A
- Mark Loveday (1986) MCI Arb A
- Martin Young (1984)
- Michael Bailey (1986) A
- Christopher Bamford (1987)
- John Buck (1987) A
- Michael Buckpitt (1988) A
- Christopher Maynard MCI Arb (1988) A
- Phillip Aliker (1990) FCI Arb A
- Philip Brown (1991)
- Birgitta Meyer (1992)
- Timothy Cowen (1993)
- Stan Gallagher (1994) A
- Robert Bowker (1995) A
- Karen Jones (1995)
- James Fieldsend (1997)
- Piers Harrison (1997) A
- Daniel Bromilow (1996)
- Daniel Dovar (1997) A
- Andrew Mace (1997)
- Nicola Muir (1998) A
- Marc Glover (1999)A
- Adrian Carr (1999) A
- Carl Fain (2001) A
- Graham Callard (2001)
- Tom Carpenter-Leitch (2002) A
- Tim Hammond (2003) A
- Estelle Lear (2006) A
- Sara Jabbari (2007)
- Sam Madge-Wyld (2008)
- Christy Burzio (2010)
- Richard Alford (2011) A
- Diane Doliveux (2011)
- James Hamerton-Stove (2012) A
- Richard Granby (2012) A
- Katy Gray (2013) A
- Robyn Cunningham (2014)
- Chloe Sheridan (2015)
- Will Beetson (2015) A
- James Castle (2015)
- Elizabeth Fisher (2016)
- Ceri Edmonds (2017)
- Andrew Brueton (2017)
- Nora Wannagat (2018)
- Hugh Rowan (2021)
- Andrew Martin (2022)
- Annie HIggo (2022)
- Lorenzo Leoni (2023)
- Thomas Dawson (2023)
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- London2-5 Warwick Court, London, Greater London, UK, WC1R 5DJ
- Web: www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk
- Tel: (020) 7421 5300
- Fax: (020) 7421 5333
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