Specialist Teams & Practitioner Groups

Crime

Despite the wide-ranging nature of criminal offending the procedural, evidential and funding rules facing practitioners assist in maintaining a cohesive spirit amongst our criminal team, led by Richard Kelly.  Team members also deal with regulatory offences proesecuted by trading standards departments, the Health & Safety Executive, etc, and also trials under military law.

 

Family law

The same is essentially true for our family practitioners, led by Carole Parry-Jones, despite natural divisions between financial relief hearings in the County Court or Principal Registry and public law and private work involving children, much of which takes place in the Family Proceedings Court.

 

Civil work

However, with civil practice covering non-litigious or transactional advisory work as well as litigation not only before the courts, governed by the Civil Procedure Rules, but also claims or rights to be heard with their own statutory codes and systems of tribunals – such as Planning Inquiries, Employment Tribunals, the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry, and others – our members have developed more specialist, interest based, practitioner groups to assist both with marketing and the sharing of members' knowledge and experience.

 

Junior practitioners

The more junior members of Chambers are encouraged not to specialise too early in their careers but to gain wide experience within Chambers' existing teams and practitioner groups.