Mayfair Place Chambers

Mayfair Place Chambers is a boutique set of highly respected regulatory and criminal experts, each recognised for their exceptional track record and acknowledged authority in their specialist fields. All members are distinguished by excellence at the highest levels of criminal and regulatory legal practice. Regularly retained at the earliest stages of investigations, members of chambers bring a level of focus and depth of experience that allows them to provide comprehensive strategic advice to clients throughout the life of a case.

Offering a unique and modern approach to the instruction of counsel, Mayfair Place Chambers is at the forefront of modern legal excellence.

Main Areas of Practice

Health & Safety: Mayfair Place Chambers specialises in complex and high-profile health and safety matters, representing corporate and individual clients across all industries in the full range of cases arising out of fatal and non-fatal incidents, and appeals against improvement and prohibition notices. Expertise extends to fire safety, including prosecutions under the Fire Safety Order, notice appeals, and where technical measures are referred for determination by the Secretary of State.

Environmental: Mayfair Place Chambers has expertise encompassing a broad range of environmental law matters with particular focus on the water and power industries, alleged breaches of environmental permits and Environment Agency prosecutions.

Professional discipline: The members of Mayfair Place Chambers have experience of a wide range of professional discipline cases, concentrating on the medical, dental, health, veterinary, and social care sectors.

Inquests & Inquiries: Each of the barristers at Mayfair Place Chambers has very substantial experience acting in a wide range of inquests, including those relating to deaths in workplace and medical settings, and high-profile public and statutory inquiries. They are very frequently engaged to advise companies and individuals at the earliest stage of an investigation, throughout the inquest, and to the conclusion of any subsequent criminal, regulatory and disciplinary proceedings.

Criminal law: All members of Mayfair Place Chambers are specialist criminal advocates with a professional lifetime spent advising and acting in complex and serious cases across the full spectrum of criminal law, including homicide, serious and organised crime, and sexual offences.

Corporate governance, financial regulation and fraud: Mayfair Place Chambers barristers have broad experienceinadvising companies and individual company directors on matters pertaining to corporate governance and internal investigations arrangements and following reputational crises. They advise and act for companies and individuals charged with serious fraud and financial crime offences, usually instructed pre-charge and acting through to the conclusion of criminal proceedings.

Healthcare regulatory law: Mayfair Place's expertise incorporates investigations and prosecutions of health and social care providers by the CQC and HSE, inquests where allegations of deficient care arise, and advice and representation of individual medical practitioners facing criminal or regulatory proceedings.

Corporate and gross negligence manslaughter: Each of the barristers at Mayfair Place Chambers has vast experience in the highest profile work and public safety related manslaughter investigations and prosecutions. They are routinely instructed in corporate and gross negligence manslaughter investigations and are able to combine a singular expertise in both health and safety and criminal law to these complex and high-profile cases.