Barristers

Richard Smith QC

Year of Call: 1986
QC Call: 2001

Richard is a criminal and sports law barrister, with over 30 years’ experience at the Bar and some 16 years described as a "Leading Silk"

Andrew Langdon QC

Year of Call: 1986
QC Call: 2006

Andrew is a criminal silk who regularly appears in cases of homicide, complex fraud and regulatory crime.

* Christopher Stoner QC

Year of Call: 1991
QC Call: 2010

* John Whitting QC

Year of Call: 1991
QC Call: 2011

John joined Guildhall as a door tenant in December 2012 and is an experienced barrister in clinical negligence and professional negligence.

Christopher Quinlan QC

Year of Call: 1992
QC Call: 2011

Christopher is Head of the Guildhall’s Crime Team and Sports Team. He is a criminal, sports and regulatory law silk

Hugh Sims QC

Year of Call: 1999
QC Call: 2014

Hugh is recognised as a star of the UK Bar, with rankings in Chambers UK as a leading commercial and chancery barrister on the Western Circuit across 7 practice areas.

Selena Plowden QC

Year of Call: 1991
QC Call: 2020

Selena is a specialist clinical negligence barrister, who also undertakes some associated professional disciplinary and inquest work.

Adam Chippindall

Year of Call: 1975

Adam is a specialist barrister with over 30 years experience in clinical negligence, personal injury and associated solicitor's negligence.

Ian Fenny

Year of Call: 1978

Ian is widely regarded as a leading criminal advocate in all cases of serious sexual and physical violence. His regulatory practice is geared towards the farming and land management community.

Malcolm Warner

Year of Call: 1979

Malcolm predominately has a High Court practice, in chancery and commercial law.

William Batstone

Year of Call: 1982

William is an agricultural and rural property barrister who advises and acts for landlords and tenants of farms.

John Virgo

Year of Call: 1983

John is a specialist commercial barrister, with a strong practice emphasis on high-value financial product mis-selling litigation.

Ray Tully

Year of Call: 1987

Ray is a heavyweight Criminal Law and Sports Law barrister who is former Head of the Chambers' Crime Team.

Nicolas Gerasimidis

Year of Call: 1988

Nicolas is a busy Leading junior specialising in complex and serious high profile criminal and regulatory cases.

David Scutt

Year of Call: 1989

David is a criminal barrister experienced in all areas of complex / serious crime. He defends and prosecutes in the Crown and Appellate Courts.

Nicholas Smith

Year of Call: 1990

Nick has been band 1 ranked in both Chambers and Partners and the legal 500 directories since the late 1990’s.

Charles Thomas

Year of Call: 1990

Charles is an experienced specialist criminal barrister. His practice encompasses the entire range of criminal work.

Virginia Cornwall

Year of Call: 1990

Stephen Dent

Year of Call: 1991

Stephen has practised criminal law for the last 22 years; he has considerable experience in all courts and types of case.

Julian Benson

Year of Call: 1991

Julian works exclusively on complex and/or high value claimant and defendant work, typically involving brain injuries, catastrophic limb injuries (and amputations), chronic pain syndromes and disorders, and psychiatric injuries frequently against leading counsel.

Anthony Reddiford

Year of Call: 1991

Anthony has specialised in personal injury and clinical negligence claims for over 20 years, during which time he has frequently dealt with injuries up to and including those of the utmost severity.

John Snell

Year of Call: 1991

John specialises in clinical negligence and equine and other claims arising under the Animals Act 1971.

Brendon Moorhouse

Year of Call: 1992

Brendon is an expert barrister in environmental, regulatory and criminal law, for both defence and prosecution.

Matthew Wales

Year of Call: 1993

Matthew is a property barrister who works primarily in the field of property & estates law, and conducts related work in the fields of insolvency and professional negligence.

Gabriel Farmer

Year of Call: 1994

Gabriel has a longstanding specialist practice in personal injury and clinical negligence and led the Guildhall PI team for a decade

Mark Worsley

Year of Call: 1994

Mark has been practising in criminal law for 17 years. He defends and prosecutes serious crime.

Richard Ascroft

Year of Call: 1995

Richard is a barrister who specialises in insolvency law, company law and commercial litigation.

Ewan Paton

Year of Call: 1996

Ewan practises extensively in the traditional chancery areas of property, wills and estates, landlord and tenant and professional negligence claims relating to those areas.

Ramin Pakrooh

Year of Call: 1996

Ramin conducts a busy criminal defence practice, balanced by prosecution work, with particular specialisms in violent crime and in large scale drug and firearm conspiracies.

Adrian Posta

Year of Call: 1996

Debbie Grennan

Year of Call: 1997

Debbie is a highly sought-after and experienced employment & discrimination barrister.

Christopher Hare

Year of Call: 1998

Christopher specialises in banking, corporate and insolvency litigation and is presently the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Oxford.

Oliver Moore

Year of Call: 2005
Sol: 1998

Oliver is a barrister who specialises primarily in personal injury claims and costs litigation.

Katie Gibb

Year of Call: 1999

Katie practices in all areas of insolvency and enjoys a broad commercial litigation practice with particular specialism in partnership disputes.

Julian Allsop

Year of Call: 1999

Julian has a specialist, predominantly employer focused employment and discrimination practice in the Employment Tribunal, EAT and Civil Courts.

Jenny Tallentire

Year of Call: 2000

Jenny is a highly experienced criminal practitioner, with expertise in challenging and complex matters.

Pushpanjali Gohil

Year of Call: 2000

Anjali is known for her fearlessness in court, down to earth style, pleasing to juries and clients alike, and her ability for careful and sensitive yet robust cross-examination.

Robert Sowersby

Year of Call: 2000

Rob specialises in clinical work: he is well regarded in the field, and is consistently recommended as a leading junior in the main legal directories.

Harry Spurr

Year of Call: 2001

Martin Lanchester

Year of Call: 2001

Martin is a member of the Guildhall Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence team.

Stefan Ramel

Year of Call: 2002

Stefan is a highly regarded commercial advocate who litigates regularly in the High Court and who has also appeared several times without a leader in the Court of Appeal.

Douglas Leach

Year of Call: 2003

Douglas is a specialist employment & discrimination barrister. He has a well-rounded practice which encompasses all areas of employment, discrimination and collective labour law.

Allan Roberts

Year of Call: 2004

Allan is a specialist employment and commercial barrister with experience in all aspects of employment and equality law (including its application to partners and directors), as well as commercial and professional disputes, (particularly restraint of trade and partnership disputes).

James Haskell

Year of Call: 2004

James is a specialist criminal advocate who prosecutes and defends in a wide range of criminal cases.

Susan Cavender

Year of Call: 2004

Susan specializes in a variety of areas of law that includes criminal, licensing, dangerous dogs, regulatory/disciplinary and inquest hearings.

Louise Jones

Year of Call: 2004

Louise is a specialist in public and administrative law.

Jorren Knibbe

Year of Call: 2005

Jorren specialises in commercial litigation and disputes raising public law and regulatory issues.

Oliver Manley

Year of Call: 2005

Oliver is a commercial and personal injury barrister with considerable experience in resolving all manner of disputes arising from his practice areas.

Mary Cowe

Year of Call: 2006

Mary is a criminal barrister who defends and prosecutes exclusively in serious criminal cases.

Kerry Gardiner

Year of Call: 2006

Kerry is a specialist employment barrister. She acts for both Claimants and Respondents in all aspects of employment law

Michael Selway

Year of Call: 2007

Michael practises in property & estates and commercial law, appearing in the High Court, County Court and other tribunals.

Paul Lewis

Year of Call: 2007

Paul is a specialist chancery and commercial barrister.

William Tyzack

Year of Call: 2007

Lucy Walker

Year of Call: 2008
Sol: 1998

Lucy undertakes both contentious and non contentious advisory work in respect of all aspects of banking & financial services and commercial matters.

Katie Hooper

Year of Call: 2008

Katie is a specialist in commercial and property and estates law, having honed her skills at both the chancery commercial bar and in a busy international litigation practice offshore.

Daniel Neill

Year of Call: 2008

Daniel has a busy and broad-based medico-legal practice, acting on behalf of claimants and defendants.

Holly Doyle

Year of Call: 2008

Holly is a barrister with a broad range of experience and expertise in insolvency and commercial law

Samuel Jones

Year of Call: 2008

Sam is a specialist criminal advocate who prosecutes and defends in a wide variety of the most serious of criminal cases.

James Wibberley

Year of Call: 2009

James is a commercial and employment barrister, with experience of dealing with a wide range of disputes within the County Court, High Court and Employment Tribunal.

Simon Passfield

Year of Call: 2009

Simon is a specialist insolvency barrister who undertakes litigation and advisory work in all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency law.

Sophie Holme

Year of Call: 2009

A busy and dedicated junior personal injury and clinical negligence barrister who combines legal rigour with sensitivity of approach.

Oliver Mitchell

Year of Call: 2009

Oliver joined Guildhall's Commercial and Property & Estates teams in 2013. He has experience of a wide range of commercial and chancery/property work, acting for corporate clients, individuals and insolvency practitioners.

Caighli Taylor

Year of Call: 2010

Geraint Probert

Year of Call: 2010

Geraint is a specialist employment barrister. He has been recommended by Chambers UK as an up-and-coming leading junior practitioner

Gregory Gordon

Year of Call: 2010

Gregory is a criminal and regulatory barrister, specialising in serious and complex crime, hunting and animal welfare offences.

Suzanne Staunton

Year of Call: 2010

Suzanne was ranked in the first tier in the South Western Employment bar in the 2015 edition of the “Legal 500”, alongside senior juniors with over twenty years’ experience.

Matthew Brown

Year of Call: 2011

Matthew is a specialist property & estates barrister who practises exclusively in the areas of real property, estates, landlord and tenant and trusts.

Kriti Upadhyay

Year of Call: 2011

Kriti is a specialist personal injury, clinical negligence, professional discipline and Court of Protection practitioner, acting on behalf of claimants and defendants.

Jay Jagasia

Year of Call: 2012
Sol: 2010

Jay is a member of the Commercial and Property & Estates teams, and is a busy junior who is regularly instructed to act, either alone or as junior counsel, in high value and complicated litigation.

Alistair Haggerty

Year of Call: 2012

Alistair is a specialist criminal and regulatory advocate with a busy Crown Court practice. He undertakes instructions to prosecute and defend in a wide variety of cases

James Bentley

Year of Call: 2012

James is a specialist personal injury and clinical negligence barrister with a growing costs practice also.

James Hannant

Year of Call: 2013

James is a member of both the commercial and insolvency teams.

Brittany Pearce

Year of Call: 2015

Brittany joined the Property & Estates team following successful completion of her pupillage in September 2016.

Grace Flynn

Year of Call: 2015

Grace is a criminal barrister who undertakes instructions to prosecute and defend in a wide range of cases.

Samuel Parsons

Year of Call: 2015

Samuel is a specialist insolvency barrister, with a practice spanning corporate and personal insolvency, cross-border insolvencies, and commercial matters with an insolvency element.

John Churchill

Year of Call: 2016

John has had exposure to a diverse variety of commercial work stretching from general commercial work to specialist areas such as the provision of financial advice and regulation.

Philip Hughes

Year of Call: 2017

Philip is a specialist Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence practitioner, acting on behalf of claimants and defendants.

Nicholas Lee

Year of Call: 2018

Nicholas joined the crime team as a tenant in 2019, following his pupillage under the supervision of Mary Cowe.

Nicholas Evans

Year of Call: 2018

Nicholas completed his specialist commercial and property pupillage in October 2019.