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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. Our teams have a broad spread of expertise and experience, with the more junior members well supported by the more senior members.

Please use the links to the right for further information about the practice areas we specialise in.

Administrative & Public Law: A leading set in the South West for all aspects of administrative and public law.

Alternative Dispute Resolution: Extensive experience of various Alternative Dispute Resolution procedures.

Clinical Negligence: Specialists in all aspects of clinical negligence litigation.

Commercial: Advice and advocacy on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution work.

Costs & Litigation Funding: Inter partes costs disputes & costs issues.

Court Of Protection: Our barristers have extensive experience in advising and representing various parties.

Crime: One of the foremost criminal sets in the country and the leading set on the Western Circuit.

Employment & Discrimination: Specialist advocacy and advisory services across the full range issues.

Insolvency: Specialist in all aspects of contentious and non contentious insolvency issues, corporate recovery and CDDA work.

International & Offshore: Experienced in assisting overseas clients and appearing in high-profile cases.

Personal Injury: Expertise in a wide array of complex areas.

Property & Estates: Specialist chancery work from agriculture to trusts, wills and estates.

Regulatory & Discipline: A large and experienced team of regulatory and discipline barristers.

Sports Law: Advocacy and advisory services to the sports sector.
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Local Government & Licensing Barristers

"They provide London quality of clerking, client service and commercial awareness at regional prices. No one else in the region comes close."
Chambers UK 2014

Guildhall Chambers has a national reputation in local government licensing law, and our members offer expertise in numerous other areas affecting local government.

We act in relation to all forms of licensed activities, including:

Pubs, night clubs, restaurants, hotels and off-licences
Members clubs
Betting shops and casinos
Lotteries, competitions and online gaming
Sexual entertainment venues and sex shops
Street trading
Money lending
Zoos
Tattoo artists
Taxis

Kerry Barker and Sue Cavender are joint authors of Licensing: The New Law. Kerry is also editor of the new Licensing Law Reports (Jordan Publishing), co-author of Betting, Gaming and Lotteries and a contributor to Paterson's Licensing Acts.

Our barristers also have a strong record in challenging and defending local authority decisions, including in relation to austerity cuts, conflicts between cuts and statutory duties, and developments in the law of consultation and proportionality.

Other areas of expertise include education, special educational needs and EHC assessments and plans, housing and homelessness.

Clerk Contact Information

For further information and enquiries please contact our civil clerks via email or on 0117 930 9000.

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