We recognise that clients demand specialist knowledge from barristers who are technically astute, excellent in court and aware of wider commercial issues and personable.
St Philips Chambers is noted for its public and private sector expertise. St Philips Barristers has ‘a very good spread of available counsel’ advising claimants and respondents on matters ranging from restraint of trade and discrimination to breaches of contract and civil workplace harassment. – Legal 500
We recognise that clients demand specialist knowledge from barristers who are good on their feet, commercially minded and approachable.
You will find barristers at St Philips who can meet your needs in restraint of trade and confidentiality litigation, work as part of a team with the client’s best interests in mind and achieve the very best results time after time.
Every senior member of the team is recommended by the legal press.
John Brennan is an “extremely good analytical lawyer [who] marries legal acumen with cautious common sense”.
The General Counsel of a major UK FMCG company said that Mark Grant “excels” at giving “pragmatic, commercial litigation advice...a valued and trusted member of my inner ‘external lawyer’ circle”.
Whether you need urgent representation in injunctive relief proceedings or seek advice on complex issues including fiduciary duties (where a number of our members have publication credits and regularly conduct seminars) or ancillary intellectual property, corporate or shareholder issues, we promise you a first-class service that you can trust.
Justin Luckman, Ross Hands, Jake Smithers, Tom Kelly and Ella Ballard.
The following article was prepared as part of the Business & Property juniors’ Litigation Toolkit series. Throughout October, a series of articles will be published providing junior practitioners with useful...
The following article was prepared as part of the Business & Property juniors’ Litigation Toolkit series. Throughout October, a series of articles will be published providing junior practitioners with useful...
We are delighted to invite you to our Autumn Commercial Conference: “What’s Changed and What Matters Now“. The conference brings together members of our Business & Property Group for practical...
We are pleased to share that Raghav Trivedi has been elected to the Bar Council for a three-year term commencing in 2027. He was elected in the “Self-employed Junior Counsel...
The Upper Tribunal has handed down a run of decisions in 2026 dealing with s.84 applications to modify or discharge restrictive covenants. For developers, the message is broadly encouraging: planning...
Raghav Trivedi appeared in the Rolls Building last week before an ICC judge acting for a property developer on an urgent validation order application under s.127 Insolvency Act 1986. Contracts had...
Our Annual Real Estate Conference is taking place on Wednesday 11 November 2026 at The Exchange, Birmingham. We are currently finalising the full programme and speaker line-up, but this year’s conference promises a...
In a nutshell In a unanimous judgment, the Supreme Court has now confirmed that a bankruptcy petition can be presented on an unrecognised and unregistrable foreign judgment. Such a judgment creates a “debt”...
In this edition of Lay of the Land, Gavin McLeod examines the acquisition constructive trust, an important but often overlooked tool for protecting beneficial interests in land without requiring proof of detrimental...
In this article, new tenant Abigail Collier, considers the position where a deceased person’s estate is found to be insolvent, in circumstances where no bankruptcy petition had been presented before...
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