Head of Chambers Colin Edelman QCChief Executive Officer Beverly LandaisHead of Clerking Services Clifford HollandMEMBERS
- Colin Edelman QC (1977) (QC-1995)
- Diana Cotton QC (1964) (QC-1983)
- Robert Glancy QC (1972) (QC-1997)
- Timothy Brennan QC (1981) (QC-2001)
- Graham Read QC (1981) (QC-2003)
- Stephen Killalea QC (1981) (QC-2006)
- Colin Wynter QC (1984) (QC-2006)
- Ingrid Simler QC (1987) (QC-2006)
- Bruce Carr QC (1986) (QC-2009)
- Ian Lee (1973)
- Nicholas Bard (1979)
- Bruce Silvester (1983)
- Colin Mendoza (1983)
- Joanna Heal (1988)
- Oliver Hyams (1989)
- Nicholas Randall (1990)
- Richard Harrison (1991)
- Suzanne McKie (1991)
- Peter Edwards (1992)
- Alison Padfield (1992)
- Robert Weir (1992)
- Andrew Burns (1993)
- Katharine Gollop (1993)
- Dijen Basu (1994)
- Richard Cartwright (1994)
- Mohinderpal Sethi (1996)
- Akash Nawbatt (1999)
- Shaen Catherwood (2000)
- Robert Sowersby (2000)
- Robert Hunter (2000)
- Sophie Belgrove (2001)
- Ben Lynch (2001)
- Alice Mayhew (2001)
- Sarah Watson (2002)
- Rachel Avery (2003)
- Yvette Budé (2003)
- Lucinda Harris (2004)
- Laura Bell (2004)
- Taila Barsam (2006)
- Thomas Cordrey (2006)
- Laura McNair-Wilson (2007)
- Sam Nicholls (2006)
- Christopher Stone (2007)
The Chambers Devereux Chambers specialises in the provision of expert litigation services for insurance, reinsurance, employment and personal injury cases. It is a well established set of chambers which places a strong emphasis on advocacy with a professional but client friendly and down to earth approach. Chambers attracts a wide client base ranging from public companies, underwriters and brokers to local authorities, government departments, trade unions and individual litigants. Chambers is recognised as a leading set in all of its main fields of work. Members of chambers play an active part in the support of specialist legal panels and a large number of tenants hold professional appointments. This includes members of chambers serving as Deputy High Court Judges and Recorders as well as holding appointments from the Attorney-General including Junior Counsel to the Crown. Members of Chambers sit on the Premier League Disciplinary Tribunal Panel, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel and the Mental Health Independent Review Tribunal. They also sit as Arbitrators, Mediators and chair Tribunals and Inquiries. Members of chambers also fulfil a prominent role in the Bar's professional bodies and associations including the Bar Council Professional Conduct Committee.
Work Undertaken
Insurance/Reinsurance/Commercial: Devereux Chambers has highly experienced commercial practitioners and talented juniors, who together supply practical and innovative solutions to suit commercial and business needs. The set's Commercial Group provides litigation and advisory work in insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, company and contractual disputes, sale and carriage of goods, domestic and international arbitration, shipping, commodities, telecommunications, financial services and markets, commercial property and mortgages, conflicts of law, environmental law and all areas of interim relief.
Employment: Devereux Chambers is widely regarded as a leading employment law set. All areas of employment related work are undertaken at both the collective and individual level. Members of chambers from the Employment Group appear in all employment related jurisdictions from the Employment Tribunal to the House of Lords. This includes work relating to trade disputes, restrictive covenants and confidential information, data protection, whistle-blowers, unfair and wrongful dismissal, race, sex and disability discrimination, redundancy, TUPE, share schemes, pensions and other benefits.
Personal Injury: Devereux Chambers is recognised as one of the leading sets specialising in personal injury and health and safety work. Members of chambers specialise in catastrophic injuries (particularly head and spinal injury) and multi-party actions, while the strong team of juniors provides a complete service to instructing solicitors in multi-track and fast track trials throughout the country. Members of chambers act for claimants and defendants in cases resulting from accidents and injuries of all levels of severity including clinical negligence, road traffic accidents, industrial accidents, explosions, disease, severe brain injuries, paraplegia and tetraplegia, severe psychiatric conditions and multiple injuries or death.
Additional Services: The set's interdisciplinary work is wide ranging. Members of Chambers regularly appear in leading high profile cases and as writers or co-writers of practitioners' books and articles in their fields of expertise. Members of chambers often provide seminars to firms of solicitors for in-house training purposes and as part of chambers' own Law Society accredited seminar programme. In addition to the set's core specialisms, individual members of chambers offer high level support for cases regarding tax, sport, education, arbitration and mediation, defamation, licensing, environmental law, landlord and tenant, administrative law, human rights and civil liberties.