Staff

Heather Rees

Heather joined Outer Temple in November 2018, having previously worked as a junior clerk at Arden Chambers. Heather provides clerking support for the business and health teams and is building familiarity with court procedures and developing …

Rebecca Priestley

Rebecca joined Outer Temple Chambers as our Chief Executive in 2019. She is responsible for providing strategic leadership and the overall management of our set. This includes client care, practice management and business development, fees …

Steve Graham

Steve Graham, a director at Outer Temple Chambers, is in charge of practice development across chambers. He is responsible for servicing and maintaining existing client relationships as well as forging new ones. Steve is a past …

Graham Woods

Graham Woods is the Business Development Director for the Health Department at Outer Temple Chambers. Having been in the legal profession for his entire career, Graham has a wealth of experience stretching across all fields …

Paul Barton

Paul Barton is responsible for the supervision and day-to-day running of the Health department, including liaising with clients on a daily basis, diary management and fee negotiations. The assistance of his very positive and able team allows …

Peter Foad

Peter Foad is the First Junior clerk in the Health department. He joined Outer Temple in 2009, having started his clerking career in 2002. He assists in the management and practice development of the healthcare …

Mark Gardner

Mark Gardner began clerking in 2004 and joined Chambers in 2014 as First Junior Clerk to the Health Team. He clerks all areas of the team's work including; Clinical Negligence, Disciplinary & Regulatory and Personal …

Chris Rowe

Chris Rowe became a barrister's clerk in 2010 joining Outer Temple in January 2014. His previous experience was in a specialised criminal defence set. He is now 2nd junior clerk in our personal injury and clinical …

Julie Brown

Julie Brown started working at Outer Temple in April 2016 and helps with the day to day running of the office. Since Julie started she brings joy and fun to everyone, being very friendly, sociable and cheerful. …

David Smith

David Smith is the Business Development Director responsible for all aspects of Business Law within chambers. He works closely with Dave Scothern and is assisted by Nicholas Levett, Adam Macdonald, Sura Mustafa and Remy Ramirez in …

Dave Scothern

Dave Scothern joined Outer Temple in January 2013. In his role as a Business Development Director, Dave works very closely with David Smith, they are jointly responsible for all aspects of work undertaken within the Business …

Matt Sale

Matt Sale works alongside David Smith, and closely with Dave Scothern, Nick Levett and Adam Macdonald in the Business team, to provide practice assistance to those members of Chambers working in the Business Law Areas …

Nicholas Levett

Nicholas Levett has been a clerk at Outer Temple Chambers since 2007, joining from specialist criminal firm BCL Burton Copeland Solicitors. He works alongside Dave Scothern, and closely with David Smith and Adam Macdonald in the …

Adam Macdonald

Adam joined Outer Temple Chambers as Junior Clerk at the end of January 2013 after completing his Law Degree at Oxford Brookes University in June 2012. During his time at university, Adam took part in …

Sura Mustafa

After having completed her law degree at Queen Mary University (London) and gained work experience at a solicitors firm, Sura joined Chambers at the beginning of 2017. Her role consists of general day-to-day clerking administration, liaising with …

Marie Douglas

Marie Douglas is the senior fees clerk and manages the collection of fees for members of chambers. She works closely with her fees team to ensure that fee notes and reminder letters are sent out …

Judy Gant

Judy Gant works as part of the fees team and assists with fee collection for all Members of Chambers. This entails sending fee notes and reminder letters and dealing with queries relating to the payment …

Justine Nabacwa

Justine Nabacwa joined Outer Temple Chambers in 2007. She assists the fees collection team in managing aged debt collection and with general administration. She has previously worked for a social housing association, the Citizens Advice Bureau …

Pamela Chatterway

Pamela Chatterway joined Outer Temple Chambers in August 2013. She works full time assisting the Fees Team and the Finance Manager. Pam spent the first fourteen years of her career in Banking, starting in the machine …

Arthur Chikara

Arthur Chikara joined Outer Temple in 2008. He ensures the smooth running of all aspects of Chambers infrastructure and facilities. Prior to joining us he worked at another large London set for two years. Arthur has …

Andrew Dinkenor

Andrew Dinkenor joined Chambers in 2007 from another large set of Chambers where he was head of finance for six years. Andrew had various roles in both commerce and practice including Finance Development Worker for a …

Denise Austin

Denise is the Finance Officer in Chambers, assisting the Finance Manager and dealing, among other tasks, with bank reconciliation, purchase ledger, payment and barristers' levy invoices. Denise joined us in July 2018, having previously worked for 13 …

Helen Brew Gerlach

Helen Brew Gerlach joined Chambers in November 2015 from another chambers where she was Business Development Manager for two years. Helen has held a number of marketing and business development-related management roles across the Professional Services …

Shiraz Oshidar

Shiraz Oshidar's career started off in a research function within a local authority, from where he moved to producing a public policy conference for the European Commission. After a period working for an association of translators, …

Andreea Cojocaru

Andreea Cojocaru is currently working with the administrative team of Chambers, assisting on a range of marketing, policy and administrative projects. She worked first in Romania for a law-firm and a bank, and then as a …

Lynn Fossett

Lynn is working as one of a team of two receptionists providing front of house services. Lynn has a wealth of reception experience gained in both the public and private sector, having previously worked for the …

Isabella Daniels

Isabella Daniels joined Chambers in 2017 as a receptionist and works on front of house. She has previously worked in retail, Public Sector Organisations and the Charity Sector.

Dalia Al-harbie

Dalia joined the reception team at Outer Temple Chambers in 2018, having previously worked as a teacher in the Middle East and in retail after moving to the UK. She is currently studying for her MA …