Field Court Chambers

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Head of chambers

Mr John Critchley

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The Training and Pupillage Committee

Administrative & public law

The public law Bar spans the full range of administrative, public and constitutional law.

Chancery

Traditional chancery includes trusts, probate, real property and tax, while commercial chancery covers a range of finance and business disputes.

Civil law

Civil law involves relations between persons, and between persons and organisations.

Civil liberties & human rights

Human rights law is essential for a fair society where all are protected, including the vulnerable.

Commercial dispute resolution

The commercial Bar covers a range of areas, including banking, sale of goods and shipping, insolvency, civil fraud, and insurance/reinsurance.

Common

Typically, common law chambers are multidisciplinary and are divided into practice groups so members can develop and maintain specialisations.

Company law

Company law is relevant to almost everything a company does, from filing annual returns to proper procedure in relation to board decisions.

Employment

Employment lawyers handle a variety of issues, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, redundancy, equal pay and whistleblowing claims.

Family/matrimonial

Think about all the things that members of a family can fall out about and multiply that – that’s your area.

Immigration

Immigration lawyers deal with all legal matters relating to immigration and nationality.

IP barristers advise on issues such as infringement disputes, issues on validity of registered IP rights, and commercial agreements that deal either exclusively with IP rights or with IP rights in the wider context of larger commercial transactions.

Landlord & tenant/housing

Housing/landlord and tenant law encompasses all aspects of residential and commercial tenancies covering issues like disrepair, human rights and succession.

Personal injury

Personal injury law falls under the law of tort and involves civil claims brought to obtain compensation for injuries.

Professional negligence

Barristers involved in this field deal with claims against professionals such as architects, accountants, solicitors and financial advisers.

Property

Property law (now sometimes labelled as real estate) embraces a wide range of work, including real property, such as contracts for sale, covenants and land registration, trusts over land; and commercial and residential tenancies involving issues as diverse as disrepair, possession claims, succession and assignment.

Technology, media and telecommunications

Media and entertainment barristers have clients in a variety of sectors, including theatre, film, music, publishing, broadcasting, sport and advertising.

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Learn more about Field Court Chambers

5 Field Court, Gray's Inn, London, WC1R 5EF
Phone: 020 7405 6114
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.fieldcourt.co.uk

Mini-pupillages:	Yes
Minimum qualification:	2.1 expected