Guildhall Chambers

Head of Chambers: Anna Vigars KC

Practice Director Crime, Regulatory & Sports: Lucy Northeast

Senior Practice Manager Civil (Property, Insolvency & Commercial): Stephen Arnold

Senior Practice Manager Civil (Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Court of Protection, Employment & Costs): Caroline Evans

Civil Clerks: Olive Kavanagh, Rob McDonald, Joe Stayte, Charlie Georgeson, Charlotte Blair

Crime Clerks: Grant Bidwell, Elena Brake, Michael Cregg, Shannon Winstone

Tenants: 80

WORK UNDERTAKEN

Banking & Financial:

Mortgages, charges, guarantees & indemnities, third-party securities, Consumer Credit Act issues, receiverships and retail banking transaction. Regulation and compliance, data protection act & GDPR, consumer and business finance, lender and bank liabilities, cryptoassets, crowd funding & peer to peer lending.

Clinical Negligence:

Acting for public and privately funded claimants, the NHSLA, NWSSP, legal and risk services, medical defence organisations, and commercial care providers.

Commercial:

Litigation, banking and finance, civil fraud, recovery of assets, injunctions, competition law, consumer credit, corporate and partnership, professional negligence, sale and supply of goods and services and TCC.

Company Law:

Contracts, partnership and joint ventures, shareholder agreements, the allotment and transfer of shares, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes, derivative claims, just and equitable windings up. Unfair prejudice disputes and director qualification proceedings.

Costs & Litigation Funding:

Inter partes costs disputes and costs issues. Assessment of costs, appeals, and costs management. Enforceability of funding arrangements, coverage and indemnity relating to BTE and ATE insurance.

Crime:

All areas of criminal defence and prosecution work from murder, serious sexual allegations, slavery, terrorism and serious fraud, to road traffic cases, drug and vehicle crime.

Employment & Discrimination:

Unfair, constructive and wrongful dismissal, contractual disputes, actionable discrimination, complex discrimination, whistleblowing & TUPE matters, breach of confidence, equal pay employment status, redundancy and restructuring, professional discipline, industrial action and injunctions.

Insolvency:

Corporate, partnership and personal insolvency, corporate and partnership break-up, and company directors and disqualification.

Personal Injury:

Serious brain injury, chronic pain, psychological injury, product liability, workplace accidents, public liability, motor claims. Complex group claims, inquests and industrial disease. Animals act claims and sports injuries.

Professional Negligence & Indemnity:

Disciplinary proceedings across all professions and at all levels, from healthcare and education sectors, to assisting police officers.

Property, Estates & Planning:

Landlord and tenant, agriculture, trusts, inheritance, wills & probate, estates & commons, towns & village greens. planning appeals and inquiries, enforcements, injunctions, development plan examinations.

Regulatory & Discipline: All aspects of criminal prosecutions, professional disciplinary proceedings and regulation. Internal investigation processes for employers re: disciplinary, grievance, whistleblowing and health and safety issues.

Sport: Disciplinary and regulatory hearings, sports-related contract, professional negligence, commercial, competition, criminal and employment law matters.

Technology & Construction: Payment claims, and enforcement of adjudication decisions. Claims for defective work, delay and disruption and loss and expense claims.