News & Events
News & Events
We are delighted to announce that Chaitanya Kediyal has officially joined Chambers as a member after being offered tenancy. After successfully completing Third Six Pupillage in Chambers, Chaitanya was offered tenancy which will commence from April 2024. Head of Pupillage, Saul Margo said, “We are delighted to welcome Chaitanya to Chambers. His career is already off to a flying start and we wish him every success for the future.” Chaitanya Kediyal Chaitanya is building a practice in line with Chambers’ broad commercial and civil profile. He has experience in commercial disputes, civil fraud, sanctions, digital assets, employment, company, insolvency, pensions, and trust litigation. Chaitanya completed a 12-month pupillage at a leading commercial set before coming to Chambers. He has worked…
News 2 Apr, 2024
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to welcome leading group claims and serious injury silk, Harry Steinberg KC, to the team. Harry is a leading silk specialising in personal injury, sports law, private international law and group litigation. Harry has specialised in industrial disease and mesothelioma since his junior days and he is described as having “…an exhaustive knowledge of asbestos disease issues” by Chambers & Partners. He is the chief editor of the leading textbook, “Asbestos: Law and Litigation” (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd edition, June 2022). He has appeared in many of the landmark cases that have shaped this area of law. His personal injury practice also focuses on high value and complex serious injuries and he is currently acting…
News 28 Sep, 2023
We are delighted to announce that upon completion of their pupillages, Charlotte Elves and Katherine Hampshire have officially joined Chambers as members. Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce that after twelve months of hard work and upon completion of their pupillages, Charlotte Elves and Katherine Hampshire accepted offers of tenancy and are now official chambers members. We wish them the very best in this new journey, and long, happy and successful careers at Outer Temple. Charlotte Elves Charlotte Elves joined Outer Temple Chambers as a pupil in September 2022. Prior to starting pupillage, Charlotte was the Singer Fellow in Medical Law and Ethics at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where she taught Medical Law, Criminal Law, and Jurisprudence. Her…
News 11 Sep, 2023
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce the expansion of the Middle East team. Three impressive international lawyers join us in Dubai, broadening our client specialist services in commercial law, private wealth and Islamic law. Oliver Agha brings extensive experience in Islamic Law and Walid Chiniara in ultra-high net worth (UNHW) Middle Eastern families governance. Shabana Saleem specialises in private wealth. They will work alongside our existing Dubai based members David Russell KC, Philip Punwar and Sean Yates in the International Team, covering international arbitration and commercial matters. Oliver, Walid and Shabana enhance the strong team of Outer Temple barristers already successfully working in the DIFC and Middle East markets and the wider team of international commercial specialists working from London…
News 16 May, 2023
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce the arrival of Oliver Lawrence to Outer Temple’s Employment Team. Oliver joined the London office in March 2023 and will be taking instructions on all employment matters. He has an expanding tribunal, appellate and advisory Employment practice and receives repeat instructions from both Claimant and Respondent employment firms on cases across the full range of statutory employment, commercial employment and discrimination law. He acts in complex litigation at first instance and on appeal, working with clients in the NHS, financial services, food, tech and retail sectors. Oliver has significant experience as a trial and appellate advocate relative to his year of call and has appeared in the Court of Appeal (led), the EAT (unled)…
News 13 Mar, 2023
Philip Punwar and Sean Yates join Outer Temple Chambers. Both will remain in the Middle East and join existing Dubai based members David Russell KC and David Holloway, and other members who are regularly in the region instructed on international arbitration and commercial matters. Their arrival not only strengthens Chambers’ Middle East presence but also our international disputes offering. Outer Temple has an office in the DIFC and is the only set of chambers to have a physical office presence in the region. Philip Punwar and Sean Yates are both English qualified barristers with experience of common law and civil law disciplines, particularly important in local law matters in Dubai, they start on 17 October 2022 and 1 November 2022,…
News 17 Oct, 2022
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to announce the arrival of Samuel Cuthbert which bolsters the Health Team. Samuel brings with him a wealth of experience and talent in his specialist areas of Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence, Private and Public Law, Sports Law, and Commercial Law. He is an award-winning Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury barrister and joins the London office as of 17 October 2022. Samuel Cuthbert joins the Health Department which includes the formidable Outer Temple Clinical Negligence and PI teams. He is frequently instructed both as led junior counsel and in his own right. He also has a growing Sports Practice, regularly acting on behalf of both athletes and national governing bodies and has recently been published…
News 17 Oct, 2022
Outer Temple Chambers is delighted to welcome another new addition to our growing Business Team; George Bennett as Senior Practice Manager. Joining our formidable clerking table, George will be working alongside Matt Sale in the development and management of some of our business focused barrister’s practices, with particular focus on the areas of Pensions & Trusts, Fraud, Insolvency and Restructuring, and Private Client. He will help Matt manage and develop client relationships, both domestic and internationally, and maintain Outer Temple’s excellent service levels. George began his clerking career in 2008 working at some of the leading commercial and chancery sets in London. He brings with him an abundance of knowledge and energy in this field. George is a member, and…
News 26 Jul, 2022
