Head of Chambers: Oba Nsugbe KC, SAN
Senior Clerk: Tony Atkins
Senior Criminal Clerk: Tony George
Senior Civil Clerk: James Wackett
Senior Civil Clerk - Winchester: Jon Cue
Senior Family Clerk: Sean Gentleman
Tenants: 125
THE CHAMBERS Pump Court Chambers is one of the UK’s premier common law chambers, with deep strength in civil, criminal, family law and International law. Based in London and the South East and West, Chambers’ breadth of expertise and collaborative approach enable it to provide clients with joined-up, practical solutions across multiple specialisms in law. Its barristers and clerks are approachable, straightforward and focused on solving problems quickly and cost-effectively.
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Civil: The team, made up of over 40 practising members including two silks continues to grow in strength. Chambers has particular expertise in all areas of business and commercial, employment, inheritance, property, personal injury and clinical negligence, professional negligence, regulatory and transport law.
Family: With over 60 members including three KCs, six arbitrators and one mediator, Pump Court Chambers has one of the largest specialist family law teams at the Bar. The team practices in four main areas: family finance, court of protection work and children law; public and private. The family finance team undertakes a wide spectrum of work from complex high net worth ‘big money’ cases to actions with more modest assets and incomes. The private children law team specialises in residence and contact disputes as well as applications for permission to remove children from the jurisdiction. In public law Chambers advises and represents local authorities, parents and guardians in all areas of children work.
International: Chambers enjoys a strong international practice, members provide advice and representation throughout the UK and abroad. Oba Nsugbe KC, SAN is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s and Nigeria’s leading barristers and arbitrators. Anthony Akiwumi is admitted as an Attorney of the Cayman Islands and has practised in this jurisdiction since 1997. Jason Nickless has been called to the Bar in the British Virgin Islands. Hilary Lennox is a highly experienced family practitioner across three jurisdictions and Naima Asif qualified as an Advocate of the High Courts in Pakistan in 2015.
Regulatory & Criminal: Pump Court Chambers’ advocates enjoy an outstanding reputation. Over the last 20 years more than 15 of the group have become Circuit Judges. Chambers’ regulatory lawyers have expertise in disciplinary, local authority statutory regulation and compliance, health and safety, transport, financial regulation, fraud and corporate manslaughter. The criminal team covers the fields of sexual offences, violence and courts martials.
