Chancery | UK Bar

Kings Chambers has a fine reputation among interviewees for its chancery work. Its highly regarded practitioners handle traditional and commercial work, including probate and property disputes, finance cases and charities matters. An interviewee highlights the set as having "numerous barristers who are excellent at dealing with the most complex and challenging of cases and delivering results." Members of the set appeared this year in PSV 1982 Limited v Sean Langdon, a leading case on issues related to Section 217 of the Insolvency Act 1986.

18 St John Street is a strong set of barristers who regularly handle a wide variety of property cases and company and insolvency matters. An interviewee praises the set as "very responsive, attentive and collaborative." Members of the set have appeared in high-profile matters recently including Cumbria Zoo Company v Zoo Investment Co, an urgent injunction matter.

9 St John Street is a strong set of barristers who regularly appear in the County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal, as well as the First-tier Tribunal. This set's barristers handle a wide variety of property cases and company and insolvency matters. A source states: "They are very good for chancery matters."

Exchange Chambers is a set that has expertise in an array of chancery matters. Members of the set represent clients in commercial cases, including banking, company, insolvency and shareholder disputes, as well as in traditional chancery litigation concerning trusts, wills and probate. A source praises the set for having "a wide range of experienced counsel offering detailed advice on the law," and another says: "The set is able to deal with complex and difficult company member disputes, breach of duty claims and other chancery work of this nature."