"The clerks are professional and responsive as well as reasonable when it comes to fees. They understand the pressures for instructing solicitors."; "The clerks are always very responsive and they are good at providing alternatives. Someone will pick up where another left off without any inefficiencies."; "Outer Temple Chambers has incredibly responsive clerks who are willing to have open conversations about timeframes and fees."; "Practice director Matt Sale is excellent - attentive, responsive and personable."; "Practice director Lexie Johnson is great to deal with - responsive, helpful and friendly."
Chambers & Partners 2025
"One of a small handful of go-to silks in the pensions field - personable, bright and commercial."
Pensions, Chambers & Partners 2024
"Nick is one of the pre-eminent pensions barristers. A very solid choice with high levels of technical expertise grounded in commercial reality. He is very user-friendly and supports instructing solicitors very well."
Pensions, Chambers & Partners 2024
"He is excellent both technically and commercially, and he listens to others' views and invites challenge and constructive discussion."
Pensions, Chambers & Partners 2024
"Excellent - strength in depth, fantastic knowledge, they are possibly now the leading set in the pensions world"; "Outer Temple is a leading chambers for pensions law issues. They are also particularly good where combined pensions and employment law expertise is needed. There are a large number of very impressive juniors and KCs to choose from."; "The breadth of expertise in pensions and professional negligence matters within Outer Temple is outstanding. Counsel (both at the senior and junior stages) all have fantastic client facing skills. All counsel I have instructed at Outer Temple provide technically precise, clear, strategic advice to clients."
Pensions, Legal 500 2025
The Pensions Conference in Manchester was "extremely informative and engaging" with "excellent" quality and knowledge of the speakers and presenters.
John Hanratty, CMS
"The clerks are responsive, practical in terms of making things happen when diaries are tight and pragmatic in terms of fees."
Pensions, Chambers & Partners 2024
"The clerking team is first-rate - emails and calls are answered promptly, suggestions for barristers and associated rates are always pulled together attentively, and they approach fees sensibly. "
Pensions, Chambers & Partners 2024
"Outer Temple Chambers as a 'premier pensions set' combines strength and depth in its pensions practice and offers a complete service to its clients."
Pensions, Legal 500 2022
"Outer Temple has a large bench of QCs and juniors who specialise in pensions law [...]. The set complements its pensions work with expertise in related areas of law such as employment and banking and finance."
Chambers & Partners 2019
Please contact Matt Sale on +44 (0)20 7427 4910 for more information. Our experienced practice management team will be pleased to provide you with more details of our expertise in this area.
Please contact Lexie Johnson on + 44 (0) 207 427 0801 for more information. Our experienced practice management team will be pleased to provide you with more details of our expertise in this area.
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The Pensions team at Outer Temple Chambers is widely regarded as the go-to set for pensions, employee benefit trusts and other commercial trust cases, with vast experience of providing specialist advisory and adversarial services in this field.
With a unique offering of dual-expertise specialists in pensions law and complementary specialisms like banking, financial services, employment and (having regard to the 2021 Pension Schemes Act) criminal regulatory proceedings. We understand the intricacy and complexity of corporate restructurings, scheme mergers, the most technical court applications under CPR Part 8, or hard-fought litigation under CPR Part 7 and long-running regulatory procedures.
Members of the team have consistently been instructed in the leading pension cases of the last decade and regularly act for major industry bodies, including the Pensions Regulator and the Pensions Protection Fund.
A great number of practitioners in the team are members of the Association of Pensions Lawyers, with practitioners who have been on the main committee, education & seminars committee, public sector committee and pensions litigation committee; and also the Pensions Litigation Court Users Committee.
As well as acting as advocates before all relevant tribunals (from the Determinations Panel and Upper Tribunal to the High Court and all levels of the appellate courts), we regularly appear at mediations and arbitrations.
Our barristers offer in-depth advice and representation in all aspects of pensions law such as:
In addition to commercial trust work, some of our practitioners undertake private and charitable trust work for trustees and individuals, often with cross-border / international issues (whether in Dubai, Jersey, Guernsey, Caribbean, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australian, US or other jurisdictions).
Barristers from Outer Temple Chambers have starred in most of the significant pensions cases of the last decade, including:
Team members are highly ranked in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.
Our pensions barristers have a strong track record of successfully negotiating settlements and will work tirelessly to achieve the best outcome for their client.
We offer mediation, arbitration, and early neutral evaluation (ENE) where we provide an impartial assessment of the merits of your case before legal proceedings.
Various members are qualified to practice in other jurisdictions including USA, Ireland, the Middle East, Caribbean jurisdictions, New Zealand and Australia.
Find out more about our global arbitration team here
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