We have adopted a specialist team approach to our practices for many years. We feel that this is the way our clients want us to work, and that specialisation leads to the provision of a better service.
Transparency
Please note that the information on this page is primarily provided for the benefit of consumers and other non-professional clients. If you are in any doubt about the services which Guildhall Chambers offer, and how the services of the barristers of Guildhall Chambers will be supplied in the circumstances of your case, please contact our clerks.
This information is to provide further information about: (i) how services are provided by barristers at Guildhall Chambers; (ii) how a price for those services is determined; (iii) how to seek redress in relation to any services provided by Guildhall Chambers with which you are unsatisfied.
Guildhall Chambers is a set of barristers which currently has around eighty full-time practising barristers in the following specialist teams:
Full details of the services commonly provided by each of those teams can be found on the relevant team page on the website. Alternatively, please call the clerks for further information.
Our barristers are self-employed within chambers, and are therefore separate and independent from one another in their practices. Barristers within Guildhall Chambers are not responsible for the work of another barrister in chambers and can act against each other in the same case.
Guildhall Chambers are also fortunate to have a team of clerks (and practice managers), who manage the diaries of barristers, take instructions on their behalf and are responsible for the negotiation of fees. Please contact the clerks for all discussions on fees. Please note that the clerks cannot (and will not) give you legal advice.
In which courts and tribunals do barristers from Guildhall Chambers appear? What services do barristers from Guildhall Chambers commonly provide?
Our barristers act both in advising clients and in representing clients in court. Barristers from Guildhall Chambers appear at all levels of the civil and criminal courts, including the Magistrates’ Court, the Crown Court, the County Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
Our barristers act in criminal work for the Crown Prosecution Service (hereafter ‘CPS’) and other prosecuting agencies, as well as for Defendants, at all stages in the criminal justice process.
In civil work, our barristers act for both Claimants and Defendants at all levels of the civil justice system.
We also act for public bodies (particularly in Court of Protection work). Some of our barristers are members of the Attorney General’s Panel Scheme, which means that they can be instructed to act for the government.
Members of chambers also act for clients in cases heard in the Land Tribunal and in the Employment Tribunal.
If you have any questions about whether a barrister from Guildhall Chambers is able to represent you or has experience in representing clients in a particular area of law, or in a particular tribunal or court, then please do not hesitate to contact the clerks.
A member of the clerking team will help you resolve your request.