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Christopher Sharp KC
- Call: 1975
- Silk: 1999
After an extremely successful career at the bar and consistently recognised as being among the leading experts in financial remedy cases, Christopher is now focussing solely on adjudicating Private FDR’s and remains an associate member of St Johns...

Matthew Phillips KC
- Call: 1993
- Silk: 2017
Matthew leads a successful and expanding Clinical Negligence team. He is known for his expertise in clinical negligence, personal injury and sports law cases. In the field of personal injury he specialises in asbestos related disease claims and...

William Godwin KC
- Call: 1986
- Silk: 2017
William has over thirty years’ experience advising and acting in disputes before arbitrators and the English courts. He specialises in commercial and construction law, often with a cross border element, and international arbitration. He sits as an arbitrator...

Nathan Tavares KC
- Call: 1992
- Silk: 2018
Nathan specialises in clinical negligence, catastrophic personal injury claims, product liability, and professional negligence. He is regarded by solicitors and opponents interviewed by the legal directories for having “sound judgment“, “an industrious approach“, “a measured and independent perspective“,...

Nick Marston
- Call: 1975
Nick is a qualified arbitrator with the CIArb, and a retired Judge. He recently won the ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’ at the Bristol Law Society Annual Awards Ceremony 2022. Called to the Bar in 1975, Nick practised in family...

Tim Higginson
- Call: 1977
Tim has built up an extensive practice over a number of years, the main areas of which concern disputes in these areas: Commercial and Chancery Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing Professional Negligence (principally, solicitors, barristers, auditors/accountants and bankers)...

Guy Adams
- Call: 1989
Guy is a chancery and commercial specialist who acts in complex cases which often raise difficult and/or novel points of law. His commercial work includes banking, finance, commercial contract, company and partnership and professional negligence. He also has...

Anna Symington
- Call: 2002
Anna acts for Insurers in all aspects of fraud related to personal injury claims. She is preferred Counsel for one major Insurer in all their Casualty claims. Anna deals with: Exaggerated injury claims Phantom passenger claims LSI Staged...

Anna Symington
- Call: 2002
Anna acts for both claimants and defendants in most personal injury matters. She is regularly instructed in CCMCs on behalf of both claimants and defendants. She is also experienced in appearing at detailed assessments. She has been recommended in...

Richard Gold
- Call: 2006
Richard has a general chancery and commercial practice. His main areas of expertise are: Real estate (particularly landlord & tenant and mortgage cases) Wills & trusts (including challenges to the validity of wills and applications under the Inheritance...

Nick Pointon
- Call: 2010
Nick is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter and an Associate Academic Member of St John’s Chambers. From 2010 – 2021, Nick practised as a specialist commercial and chancery law barrister. His particular areas...

Iain Large
- Call: 2016
Iain was elected an associate member of Chambers in 2022, having practised across the full range of family law matters at St John’s for a number of years. He was frequently instructed to represent local authorities, parents and...
Derek O'Sullivan KC
- Call: 1990
- Silk: 2006
Derek O’Sullivan KC’s practice concentrates on personal injury and he has significant experience in: catastrophic injury claims, employer’s liability claims, occupier’s liability claims, fatal accident claims and road traffic accidents. Derek is also regularly instructed in health and...