Chambers & Partners award Band 1 Set status to Outer Temple Chambers
Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2025 have today launched their 2025 Guide and we are delighted to share the highlights from this year’s rankings, including two Band 1 awards for our Pensions Law team and Travel Law team.
We are delighted to share the news that Outer Temple Chambers has yet again been awarded 9 set rankings in the 2025 Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide and over 110 individual rankings. In what is our best set of rankings ever, our individual rankings see 12 new entries and 16 elevations, whilst we are delighted with two new Band 1 set rankings.
A huge congratulations to all of our barristers and clerks for another year of excellent results. A particular thank you to all our clients and colleagues for taking the time to provide references.
View this year’s highlights for each of our practice areas below:
Our Pensions team has been involved in most of the leading cases of the last decade and are widely regarded as a go-to set for pensions so we are delighted that this has been recognised with a Band 1 Set ranking. Individuals have been highlighted for their excellence too, with two advancing up the rankings:
- Andrew Short KC (Star Individual)
- Andrew Spink KC (Band 1)
- David E Grant KC (Band 3)
- Keith Bryant KC (Band 2)
- Lydia Seymour (Band 2)
- Michael Uberoi (Band 3)
- Naomi Ling (elevated to Band 1)
- Nicholas Hill (elevated to Band 2)
- Nicolas Stallworthy KC (Band 1)
- Richard Hitchcock KC (Band 2)
- Saul Margo (Band 1)
- Victoria Brown (Band 4)
We are delighted to be listed in Band 1 for our team’s expertise in travel and international injury law. Our team includes many highly sought-after travel law experts including:
- Aliyah Akram (Band 3)
- Carin Hunt (new entry into Band 3)
- Daniel Clarke (Band 2)
- Eliot Woolf KC (Band 2)
- Gerard McDermott KC (Band 2)
- Ian Denham (Band 2)
- Sarah Crowther KC (Band 1)
With 15 ranked individuals, our Employment law team is pleased to be regarded amongst the best sets for employment law:
- Andrew Allen KC (elevated to Band 3)
- Andrew Short KC (Band 1)
- Bianca Venkata (elevated to Band 6)
- Daniel Barnett (Band 5)
- Elizabeth Grace (Up and Coming)
- Gus Baker (Band 6)
- Keith Bryant KC (Band 3)
- Lydia Seymour (Band 4)
- Martina Murphy (Band 4)
- Naomi Cunningham (elevated to Band 2)
- Naomi Ling (Band 1)
- Saul Margo (Band 4)
- Stephen Butler (Band 6)
- Victoria Brown (new entry to Band 6)
- Will Young (Band 4)
Our stellar Health & Safety Law team retains its status as a Band 2 set with four ranked individuals, two of whom move up in the ranking this year:
- Ben Compton KC (Band 1)
- James Leonard KC (elevated to Band 2)
- Oliver Powell (elevated to Band 2)
- Paul Rogers (Band 2)
With a number of high profile cases in 2024, we are delighted with 12 individual rankings, including a silk elevation:
- Aliyah Akram (Band 4)
- Ben Bradley (Band 2)
- Eliot Woolf KC (Band 2)
- Gerard McDermott KC (Star Individual)
- Harry Steinberg KC (Band 2)
- James Aldridge (Band 4)
- James Counsell KC (Band 3)
- Jonathan Hand KC (Band 3)
- Matthew Phillips KC (Band 3)
- Nathan Tavares KC (Band 2)
- Sarah Crowther KC (elevated to Band 2)
- Will Young (Band 3)
We are delighted to be included in this brand new table focused on animal related injury claims, with 4 members in the Spotlight Table:
- Nathan Tavares KC (Spotlight Table)
- Jonathan Hand KC (Spotlight Table)
- Harriet Jerram (Spotlight Table)
- Ben Bradley (Spotlight Table)
Our Personal Injury team have also been acknowledged yet again as experts in the specialist field of industrial disease:
- Harry Steinberg KC (Star Individual)
- Matthew Phillips KC (Band 1)
- Aliyah Akram (Band 2)
- John McKendrick KC (Band 1)
- Alex Cisneros (elevated to Band 3)
Our Clinical Negligence team continues to dominate the rankings with 14 individuals recommended for their expertise including a new entry and 2 elevations.
- Ben Bradley (elevated to Band 1)
- Christopher Wilson-Smith KC (Senior Statesperson)
- David Haines (elevated to Band 3)
- Eliot Woolf KC (Band 1)
- Harriet Jerram (Band 4)
- James Aldridge (Band 2)
- James Counsell KC (Band 3)
- Jonathan Hand KC (Band 3)
- Nathan Tavares KC (Band 2)
- Rachel Vickers KC (Band 2)
- Robert Dickason (Band 3)
- Sarah Crowther KC (Band 2)
- Tom Gibson (Band 3)
- Will Young (new entry into Band 5)
After winning some of the most high-profile group actions in the last few years, and with some major cases still ongoing, the team has been acknowledged again with a set ranking and 7 individual rankings:
- Aliyah Akram (Band 4)
- Andrew Short KC (Band 2)
- Harry Steinberg KC (Band 2)
- Keith Bryant KC (Band 2)
- Naomi Cunningham (Band 3)
- Robert Dickason (Band 3)
- Saul Margo (Band 2)
With a silk elevation and new entry into the junior rankings, Outer Temple Chambers now has 5 ranked individuals as well as our set ranking:
- Fiona Horlick KC (elevated to Band 1)
- James Counsell KC (Band 3)
- Matthew McDonagh (Band 1)
- Michael Uberoi (Band 2)
- Sophie O’Sullivan (new entry into Band 5)
In addition to our 9 set rankings, congratulations to the following individuals for their rankings:
- Joshua Hitchens (new entry into Band 4)
- David E Grant KC (Band 4)
- Nicolas Stallworthy KC (Band 3)
- Andrew Spink KC (Band 6)
- Justina Stewart (elevated to Band 3)
- Claire van Overdijk KC (elevated to Band 3)
- Justina Stewart (Band 1)
- Andrew Spink KC (Band 2)
- Alex Line (elevated to Band 2)
- Michael Uberoi (new entry into Band 3)
- Patrick Sadd (Band 3)
- Paul Livingston (Band 3)
- Lucian Ilie (new entry as ‘Up and Coming’)
- Stephen Doherty (new entry into Band 4)
- Nathan Tavares KC (Band 3)
- Nicolas Stallworthy KC (Band 4)
- Andrew Short KC (Band 4)
- Andrew Spink KC (Band 4)
- Nicholas Hill (Band 4)
- Alex Haines (elevated to Band 1)
- Oliver Powell (new entry into Band 2)
- Sophie O’Sullivan (new entry into Band 2)
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News 17 Oct, 2024
