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five new tenants
General News
29/10/2019

St Philips welcomes five new tenants

St Philips Chambers is delighted to announce that Olivia Beesley, Matthew Cullen, Anna Peaston, Sandamini Ethakada and Natalie Kearney have all accepted tenancy in Chambers following the successful completion of the pupillages. Olivia and...

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General News
10/10/2019

Clean Sweep of Band 1 Rankings Achieved

For the second year running St Philips has been awarded Band 1 Ranking in all of our practice areas in the Chambers & Partners 2020 UK Bar directory. Thank you again to all of our clients for your support during the last 12 months and in...

Blondel Thompson
General News
05/10/2019

Blondel Thompson honoured at the Middle Temple Exhibition: Celebrating a Century of Women in Law

The exhibition celebrated the centenary of the admission of women to the legal profession. Today the Middle Temple has in excess of 8000 women members, 160 women Benchers, amongst whom are several High Court judges, one Court of Appeal judge and many...

Peter Haynes
Crime
18/09/2019

Peter Haynes QC speaks at the UN/Human Rights Council in Geneva

President of the International Criminal Court Bar Association, Peter Haynes QC will be speaking at The United Nations/Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday 19th September 2019. Peter will be one of 7 speakers from around the world who will...

Barry Harwood-Ferreira
General News
10/09/2019

Barry Harwood-Ferreira gains two new appointments

Chambers congratulates Door Tenant, Barry Harwood-Ferreira on his two recent appointments, firstly as a national committee member to the Bar Council of England & Wales. The Bar Council represents the Bar community and promotes its role at the...

James Morgan QC
Business & Property
07/08/2019

Head of Business and Property Group, James Morgan QC, appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge

We are delighted to announce that Head of our Business & Property Group, James Morgan QC, has been appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge. Our congratulations go to James who is now authorised to act as a Judge of the High Court in the Chancery...

Jonathan Meichen
Employment
01/08/2019

Jonathan Meichen appointed as an Employment Judge

We are proud to announce that The Queen has appointed Jonathan Meichen to be a Salaried Employment Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales) on the advice of the The Lord Chancellor, The Right Honourable David Gauke MP. Jonathan...

Ed Peperall QC
General News
24/07/2019

New Presiding Judge Appointed for Midland Circuit

It has today been announced that former member of St Philips, The Hon Mr Justice Pepperall, has been appointed as the next Presiding Judge for the Midland Circuit.   The appointment is made from 1 January 2020, when the current Presiding...