Practice Areas of Old Square Chambers
We believe that specialisation at the bar is the key to providing the highest quality advice and representation. We have developed nine areas of particular expertise, around our core practice areas of Employment, Personal Injury and Environmental Law. Please click on the links below for more information. For information on practice areas not detailed, click on "Other".
A “specialist, well-established set with good strength in depth”, Old Square Chambers has both “approachable, knowledgeable and communicative barristers” and “friendly and efficient” clerks.
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Old Square Chambers' Employment and Discrimination Group is widely regarded as one of the foremost in the UK. The group comprises over three-quarters of our members (including 6 Queen's Counsel), many of whom are leaders in their field. Members of Old Square Chambers have appeared in many of the most significant reported employment and discrimination law cases over the last 25 years. |
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Old Square Chambers has particular expertise in this growing area of law. Members of Chambers at all levels of call have experience of appearing before, chairing and sitting as Legal Assessors on Disciplinary Tribunals. Members appear at all stages of the process including safeguarding any rights by recourse to the High Court and the Privy Council. |
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Old Square Chambers' Personal Injury Group has an outstanding reputation throughout the UK. The Group comprises over half of Chambers, and includes 6 Queen's Counsel. The Personal Injury Group is regularly instructed in high value head, brain and spinal injury cases. Old Square Chambers has acted in a large number of high value claims involving ex service personnel. |
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Old Square Chambers has vast and varied experience in clinical negligence work. The Group were founder members of Action Against Medical Accidents (AVMA) and have assisted Claimants for over twenty years. Members of the Group have extensive experience throughout the highly specialised field of clinical negligence. |
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Old Square Chambers has expertise in both criminal and civil litigation relating to product liability. The Product Liability Group comprises counsel of all seniorities and is well equipped to deal with the full range of work. For many years members of the Group have advised a large number of companies, local authorities, individuals and specialist associations in respect of defective and unsafe products. |
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Old Square Chambers' Environment Group has consistently been recognised as one of the leading teams of environmental specialists at the Bar. Members of the Group offer expertise in a broad range of fields and at all levels of call and include some of the most well-known and sought-after practitioners in the field. |
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Old Square Chambers is ranked as a leading set in Health & Safety law, and members of the Group are the editors of the leading practitioner texts in this area: Redgrave on Health & Safety, and Munkman on Employer's Liability. |
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Old Square Chambers is recommended as a leading set in the field of public inquiry work in Legal 500 (2006 edition). In particular, Chambers is able to draw on its in-depth knowledge of health and safety and industrial relations in order to provide expert representation in public inquiries concerned with major accidents or disasters, and those in which industrial relations play a key role. |
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In recent years Old Square Chambers has responded to the demand for mediation, acknowledging concerns over the costs of litigation in courts and tribunals, and also recognising the growing awareness of the positive benefits of mediation and other forms of ADR. |
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In addition to our core areas of specialism some members of Chambers have expertise in related areas of law. They include Commercial Agents, Costs, Credit Hire, General Civil Litigation, Human Rights / Civil Liberties, Industrial Relations, Judicial Review, Prison Law and Professional Negligence. |
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