How we work

How we work

In common with the rest of the Bar, members are independent practitioners who share offices and administration. Members often work with one another in teams. This offers the client many advantages:

• complementary skills
• diverse areas of expertise 
• varying degrees of experience
• speed and efficiency of communication

Fees

Fees are charged depending on the time and commitment required, the complexity of the case, the degree of responsibility, and the experience of the barrister concerned. The Senior Clerks are willing to provide estimates.

Quality of service

Members of chambers take pride in providing a high quality and flexible service which responds to their clients' commercial needs. We will advise at short notice and travel within the United Kingdom or abroad to consult clients, to offer advice or to appear as advocates. The Senior Clerks can be contacted outside office hours and at weekends and will always seek to ensure that there is a barrister available to deal with urgent matters.

Instructing a Barrister

Barristers are normally instructed by other lawyers. In the United Kingdom, these are usually solicitors or employed barristers.  Some organisations and individuals are members of the Licensed Access scheme which is supervised by the Bar Standards Board and can instruct barristers either on their own behalf or on behalf of their clients.

Overseas lawyers may instruct barristers directly:

• in any international arbitration, whether taking place in England or elsewhere 
• in any proceedings outside the United Kingdom
• to give legal advice

Barristers may also accept instructions directly from an overseas client, unless the work relates to proceedings before a tribunal governed by any part of UK law. Please contact us and one of the clerks will be happy to explain how these rules operate.