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  • Charles Gibson QC
    Charles Gibson QC

    Call: 1984 Silk: 2001

    Head of Chambers Charles Gibson QC is identified in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading silk in commercial law, product liability, health and safety, environmental law and consumer law.

  • Richard Mawrey QC
    Richard Mawrey QC

    Call: 1964 Silk: 1984

    An advocate and legal scholar of over 45 years experience, Richard Mawrey has been in practice at Henderson Chambers since 1965 and undertakes a very wide range of work at the highest levels.
  • Peter Susman QC
    Peter Susman QC

    Call: 1966 Silk: 1997

    Peter is an advocate and adviser with wide experience, who now specialises in complex contract and commercial litigation.
  • Lawrence West QC
    Lawrence West QC

    Call: 1979 Silk: 2005

    Lawrence West QC is a highly experienced, effective and dynamic advocate. He has achieved recognition from independent legal directories such as Legal 500, Chambers’ and Legal Business.
  • Prashant Popat QC
    Prashant Popat QC

    Call: 1992 Silk: 2008

    Prashant Popat QC is a leading specialist in the areas of product liability, health and safety and public inquiries.
  • Prof. Alan Dashwood CBE QC
    Prof. Alan Dashwood CBE QC

    Call: 1969 Silk: 2010

    Alan has a range of experience that qualifies him perhaps uniquely as a specialist practitioner in the law of the European Union.
  • Rhodri Williams QC
    Rhodri Williams QC

    Call: 1987 Silk: 2010

    Rhodri Williams specialises in European Community law and local government and administrative law.
  • Patrick Green QC
    Patrick Green QC

    Call: 1990 Silk: 2012

    Patrick Green QC undertakes interesting and unusual cases, predominantly in the fields of Commercial law, Judicial Review and Employment law. Recommended by Chambers & Partners 2012 as "an impressive lateral thinker who is able to come up with an angle on a case which no one else has spotted." "If you have an unwinnable case, then this is the man to win it for you."

  • Bernard O'Sullivan
    Bernard O'Sullivan

    Call: 1971

    Bernard now principally practises family law and related fields.
  • Jonathan Harvey
    Jonathan Harvey

    Call: 1974

    Jonathan Harvey has for many years maintained a wide common law practice. He has acquired a first class reputation for his advisory work and his advocacy in cases involving professional negligence, health and safety, insurance, clinical negligence and personal injury claims.

  • Kenneth Hamer
    Kenneth Hamer

    Call: 1975

    Kenneth Hamer has an extensive common law practice. He has wide experience of civil litigation at almost every level.
  • William Hibbert
    William Hibbert

    Call: 1979

    William is a specialist in the commercial aspects of finance and consumer credit and of consumer protection and regulatory law.
  • James Palmer
    James Palmer

    Call: 1983

    James Palmer’s practice is widely based on contractual, tortious and general common law matters.
  • Jonathan Steinert
    Jonathan Steinert

    Call: 1986

    Jonathan enjoys a strong reputation in his principal areas of practice and is consistently recommended in The Legal 500, Legal Experts and by Chambers (UK) as a leading junior, and in The Lawyer as being "one of the best up and coming juniors" in his principal fields.
  • David Brook
    David Brook

    Call: 1988

    A specialist in Employment and Contract law, with a practical background in commerce and industry, David is head of Henderson Chambers’ Employment Group.
  • Andrew Davies
    Andrew Davies

    Call: 1988

    Andrew Davies is a common law and commercial barrister. He has been recognized as a leading junior in several of his fields of practice by both Chambers UK and the Legal 500
  • Julia Smith
    Julia Smith

    Call: 1988

    Julia is recommended as a leading junior in banking, finance and consumer credit by the Legal 500 and in consumer law by Chambers and Partners.
  • Linda Goldman
    Linda Goldman

    Call: 1990

    Linda Goldman acts for claimants and respondents in the employment tribunals and higher courts. She is standing counsel to a premier league football club and also advises in individual sports-related matters connected with employment, injuries and health generally.
  • Oliver Campbell
    Oliver Campbell

    Call: 1992

    Oliver has a commercial and common law practice, with a particular focus on regulatory and health & safety cases, and product liability claims.
  • Malcolm Sheehan
    Malcolm Sheehan

    Call: 1993

    “Articulate and a pleasure to work with on every level” Malcolm has a commercial and common law practice principally in the fields of product liability and group actions, commercial and insurance disputes, commercial property, personal injury, health and safety and public and regulatory law.
  • Geraint Webb
    Geraint Webb

    Call: 1995

    Geraint Webb has a broad commercial law practice and insurance practice.
  • Toby Riley-Smith
    Toby Riley-Smith

    Call: 1995

    Toby is an experienced advocate with a broad commercial and common law practice. 
  • Angus Withington
    Angus Withington

    Call: 1995

    Angus has a common law and commercial practice with particular expertise in personal injury, health and safety, product liability, regulatory proceedings and employment law.
  • Andrew Kinnier
    Andrew Kinnier

    Call: 1996

    Andrew is a leading junior in the fields of product liability law, public and administrative law, public procurement law and health and safety law.
  • Adam Heppinstall
    Adam Heppinstall

    Call: 1999

    Adam retains a broad practice advising and representing individuals, companies, charities and a full range of public sector bodies across a wide range of practice areas.
  • Noel Dilworth
    Noel Dilworth

    Call: 2001

    Recommended by the Legal 500 for his work in the fields of product liability, in which he was said to show "fantastic experience" and in commercial property litigation, Noel has also gained particular distinction in commercial and employment law.
  • Anna Burne
    Anna Burne

    Call: 2001

    Anna graduated from Cambridge University with starred First Class Honours, gaining the top first in History, before obtaining a diploma in Law from City University.
  • Natasha Sethi
    Natasha Sethi

    Call: 2001

    Natasha has developed a broad commercial and civil practice and has gained particular distinction in commercial disputes and employment law.
  • Nazeer Chowdhury
    Nazeer Chowdhury

    Call: 2002

    Nazeer has built up a broad common law and commercial practice that includes advising on and acting in tortious and contractual claims of all kinds including personal injury, health and safety, consumer credit, supply of goods and services litigation for both Claimants and Defendants.
  • James Purnell
    James Purnell

    Call: 2002

    James is a commercial lawyer who is recommended in the legal directories as a leading junior in the fields of Product Liability and Health and Safety.  He is an expert in Employment, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Regulatory & Disciplinary law.  He is a member of the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel.

  • Matthew Bradley
    Matthew Bradley

    Call: 2004

    Matthew has a wide-ranging civil and commercial law practice, with particular expertise in contractual disputes, product liability & consumer law, public procurement law and employment law.

  • Kathleen Donnelly
    Kathleen Donnelly

    Call: 2005

    Kathleen studied law at Oriel College, Oxford.  She worked as a research assistant at the Law Commission of England and Wales and obtained a postgraduate law degree at Queens’ College, Cambridge.
  • Hannah Wilson
    Hannah Wilson

    Call: 2005

    Hannah Wilson graduated from Cambridge University with a first class degree and an MPhil in Theology. Hannah has a broad civil and commercial practice, and has obtained particular expertise in health and safety, personal injury, property and commercial work.
  • Abigail Cohen
    Abigail Cohen

    Call: 2005

    Abigail graduated with a First Class degree in Law from The University of Birmingham. She joined Chambers in 2007 upon successful completion of her pupillage. Abigail has a broad civil and common law practice with particular experience in Health and Safety, Employment, Finance and Consumer Credit, Personal Injury and Property.  She also has a busy junior practice and has been led by Charles Gibson QC and Geraint Webb in a £50 million Commercial Court claim, by Roger Henderson QC and Prashant Popat QC in the criminal prosecution arising out of the Buncefield explosion and by Patrick Green QC in an appeal before the VAT Tribunal involving alleged MTIC fraud.

  • Richard Roberts
    Richard Roberts

    Call: 2006

    Richard graduated from Oxford university with a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and then studied for an M.Phil in International Relations at Cambridge.
  • Matthew Richardson
    Matthew Richardson

    Call: 2006

    Matthew's broad practice of general common law focuses specifically on high-tech law, public law, consumer credit and employment.
  • Henry Warwick
    Henry Warwick

    Call: 2007

    Henry Warwick was called to the Bar in 2007 and practices in commercial law, with particular experience in finance and consumer credit law, product liability and professional negligence.
  • Nicole Robertson
    Nicole Robertson

    Call: 2007

    Nicole graduated from Oxford University with a first class degree in Philosophy and German before being awarded a Distinction for her law conversion at City University.
  • Jonathan Lewis
    Jonathan Lewis

    Call: 2007

    After reading law at Exeter College, Oxford, Jonathan went on to qualify as a solicitor at Slaughter and May, where he gained insight into corporate transactions and litigation.
  • Thomas Evans
    Thomas Evans

    Call: 2008

    Having read law at Christ Church, Oxford, Thomas joined Chambers in 2008 and now receives instructions across a wide range of practice areas, most notably in banking, asset finance and consumer credit.
  • Dennis Rosenthal
    Dennis Rosenthal

    Call: 2009

    Areas of practice: Consumer; consumer credit; retail finance; retail financial services; asset finance and leasing; commercial law; data protection; anti money laundering and civil fraud.
  • Elizabeth Humphreys
    Elizabeth Humphreys

    Call: 2009

    Elizabeth is a double graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Oxford University, having read for a BSc in Social Anthropology and an MA in English Literature (Romantics) before completing the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Vocational Course. Elizabeth joined Chambers in 2009 and has experience in a wide range of specialisms, accepting instructions across all areas of Chambers’ work.

  • Hannah Curtain
    Hannah Curtain

    Call: 2010

    Hannah graduated from Oxford University with a First Class honours degree in English and French.  She was awarded a Distinction for the Graduate Diploma in Law at City University, and was assessed Outstanding on the Bar Vocational Course.

  • Paul Skinner
    Paul Skinner

    Call: 2010

    Paul graduated with a first class honours degree from the Royal Academy of Music, London, and then read law at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. Prior to pupillage he worked as a stagière at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and as a solicitor’s agent, appearing in the County Courts on a wide range of commercial and property matters.
  • James Williams
    James Williams

    Call: 2010

    James Williams was called to the Bar in 2010 and practices in commercial and employment law.  His commercial practice includes particular experience in company law and public procurement work.