Areas of Law

Outer Temple Chambers continues to provide clients with the resources and sound legal judgements on which its reputation as a remarkably effective problem-solving team has been built. Chambers continues to grow and seeks like-minded barristers with the shared values and commitment to excellence which Outer Temple has made its hallmark. Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented growth of Chambers without any compromise of the skills and commitment for which it is known. Covering diverse areas of law and working across numerous areas of practice, Chambers can provide a truly multi-disciplinary service.

Commercial & Business Law [more]
Chambers has a significant and increasing presence in international and domestic commercial litigation and advice. Members’ long-standing reputation in international arbitration is now enhanced by fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and having multi-jurisdictional membership of the legal bars such as New York, Northern Ireland and the Eastern Caribbean. We are frequently asked to travel abroad and to advise on matters of English law in other common law jurisdictions. Chambers’ commercial and business law team offers a rare combination of first class expertise in professional regulation and compliance, Norwich Pharmacal orders, statutory asset recovery, trusts and pensions, all underpinned by a deep-seated and specialist knowledge of the law and practice in civil and criminal fraud.


Pensions [more]
Outer Temple Chambers has long been established as one of the leading Chambers specialising in pensions law, with recognised expertise at all levels of call. Members of Chambers advise employers, trustees (in particular professional trustee companies), insurers, industry bodies (e.g. the Pensions Regulator and the Pensions Protection Fund), the government and pension scheme members on all aspects of pensions law, from interpreting the most technical details of new legislation to advising on the operation of equitable principles in the pensions context. Chambers also has extensive experience of professional negligence claims against actuaries, solicitors and all other professionals involved with pension schemes.

International Services [more]
Chambers has a number of practitioners who are qualified in a variety of foreign jurisdictions.  We offer our advocacy services in those jurisdictions together with specialist advice on English law, or conflict of laws and can bring our in-depth knowledge of banking law, general commercial litigation and advisory work, financial services, extradition, fraud, asset tracing and recovery and international criminal work.

Employment & Discrimination [more]
At a time when the law concerning employment and discrimination has developed a high political profile and an increasingly complex statutory framework, Outer Temple Chambers is acknowledged as being at the forefront of its development. Chambers is particularly well known for its work in the area of disability discrimination and provides a service which combines first-class knowledge with an accessible and flexible approach, providing multi¬disciplinary teams of practitioners as and when required. Many of the employment and discrimination team have cross¬disciplinary expertise in pensions law.


Professional Discipline & Regulatory [more]
Chambers acts regularly in a wide range of disciplinary and regulatory proceedings. In financial and professional work, members act for the FSA and the Council of Lloyd’s and in proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, the Actuaries Disciplinary Tribunal and the Institute of Chartered Accountants. In medical work, members act in proceedings before the General Medical Council, the General Dental Council, the FHSAA, Primary Care Trust Tribunals, the Hearing Aid Council and in the fields of psychology and nursing. In family work, Chambers has acted for Ofsted in almost all cases before the Care Standards Tribunal. Members regularly appear before the Transport Tribunal and have appeared in many of the cases which have altered the regulatory regime and also appear before the Civil Aviation Authority. Chambers also acts in MOD Police Disciplinary matters.

Health and Safety [more]
Chambers has unparalleled expertise in corporate manslaughter and the related area of health and safety. Teams have worked on a number of landmark cases of criminal negligence, including the Lyme Bay canoeing disaster, the loss of the trawler Pescado, the loss of the Maria Assumpta, the capsize of the Lone Signature, the Avonmouth Bridge collapse and the investigations into the rail crashes at Southall, Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield, Tebay and Potters Bar.


Fraud and Extradition [more]
Chambers acts in the highly specialised fields of commercial fraud, corporate manslaughter and the inter-jurisdictional issues of extradition and asset recovery. Our track record in major commercial crime is well proven and members of Chambers have appeared in many high profile serious fraud cases including Guinness, Blue Arrow, Polly Peck, Barlow Clowes, Maxwell, Levitt, Wickes and most recently O’Neill and others – known as Operation Holbein - concerning the manipulation of the generic pharmaceutical industry. Several members are currently instructed by the Serious Fraud Office in substantial investigations.


Personal Injury [more]
Chambers undertakes work for both claimants and defendants, whether funded privately, by insurance or under conditional fee agreements. This includes large scale group litigations to smaller accidents. Work is also undertaken in relation to industrial diseases, health and safety at work, road traffic claims, severe brain and spinal injury cases, accidents at sea, stress claims and sports injuries. We also advise and appear in professional negligence actions arising out of the mishandling of personal injury claims which are, for example, time-barred, struck out for other procedural reasons or have been settled disadvantageously.


Clinical Negligence & Healthcare [more]
Outer Temple Chambers offers specialist advice and advocacy in all aspects of clinical negligence claims involving doctors, dentists, nurses and other health professionals and acts for both claimants and defendants. Chambers also advises on a wide range of healthcare issues including confidentiality, reproductive rights and embryology, statutory consultation on proposed changes to health service provision, the respective responsibilities of health and social care bodies, regulation of independent hospitals and health facilities under the Care Standards Act 2000, the application of the Human Rights Act 1998 and discrimination and equal
opportunities issues.


Public law [more]
Members of Chambers deal with judicial review cases (often acting for or against central and local government), Human Rights cases in the UK and Strasbourg and cases before a wide range of tribunals. We advise on the powers and duties of public bodies and the public law aspects of commercial transactions. We are well known for our work in major public inquiries, including many healthcare and disaster inquiries and the inquiry into the death of Zahid Mubarek. We work closely with colleagues in Chambers when public law issues arise in any context. We have specialist knowledge of transport law, sports law, all aspects of social care and mental health law and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.


Children [more]
A number of members of Outer Temple Chambers specialise in the law relating to children. In addition to appearing in many care proceedings for parents, guardians and local authorities, members have advised and acted in cases of national significance involving fast¬developing areas of children law such as Human Rights Act remedies, consent to treatment, reproductive rights and embryology, education law, and care negligence.


Costs [more]
Chambers also has a niche team experienced in all costs-related matters including detailed assessment hearings in the Supreme Costs Office.