In response to Covid-19 we are working within the current Government Guidelines.
Our services will not be interrupted, clerks and support staff can be contacted via our main number 020 7332 5400, DDI, mobile, and email, with full access to our digital and video facilities. For a list of full contact details click here.
Our highly effective team of Clerks are available to provide professional and lay clients with the Counsel of their choice.
+44 (0) 207 332 5400
Out of Hours
+44 (0) 7715 526 542
Secure Documents
criminal.team@5sah.cjsm.net
Office hours: 8.30am and 6pm, Monday – Friday
(Excluding Bank Holidays)
Clerks
Dave Scothern Chambers Director - DDI: 02073325401 Mobile: 07931776630
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Dave Scothern joined 5SAH as our Chambers Director in 2019. He is responsible for providing strategic leadership, business development and the overall management of the set, practice areas and individual members.
The Chambers Director role is client-facing with a focus on client care and developing collaborative relationships.
Dave works very closely with both the 5SAH clerking and marketing teams, leading on internal practice management and external marketing.
'The Clerks have always provided a good quality service under the able leadership of Dave Scothern.'
'Dave Scothern, [chambers director] is superb.'
The Legal 500 2021.
With his long-standing background in chambers, most recently as a Business Development Director at Outer Temple Chambers from 2013-2019 and prior to that as Senior Clerk at Dyers Chambers (now Drystone) he has a wealth of experience and contacts within the profession.
Dave is committed to the promotion of diversity and inclusion at 5SAH with a keen interest in social mobility and supporting programs that provide wider access to both the Bar and the supporting professions.
He is a Management Committee member of the Institute of Barristers Clerks’ and a qualified member of the Institute of Leadership & Management.
In his spare time Dave enjoys all things outdoors, his declining fitness took a brief reprieve for the 2018 London marathon.

Gary Norton FIRST JUNIOR - DDI: 02073325403 Mobile: 07740683039
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Gary Norton is excellent and the clerking team are always straightforward to deal with and provide quick turn around times.
The Legal 500 2021.
'Gary Norton and Dean Cook are extremely efficient and will always go the extra mile to assist in any way that they can.'
Chambers and Partners 2020.
'Senior clerk Gary Norton ‘takes the time to understand the organisation you are working for so he can recommend barristers for particular jobs depending upon the requirements of the instructing client department’
The Legal 500 2020.

Dean Cook CLERK - DDI: 02073325402 Mobile: 07915614173
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'Dean Cook is an asset to chambers, always helpful, never needs chasing and a safe pair of hands.'
The Legal 500 2021.
'Dean Cook who is ‘an extremely able and responsive clerk who ensures everything runs smoothly and feels like an extension of the legal team.’
Legal 500 2020.
"Gary Norton and Dean Cook are extremely efficient and will always go the extra mile to assist in any way that they can."
Chambers and Partners 2020.

Dean Farlam Senior Civil & Family Clerk - DDI: 02073325405 Mobile: 07595598889
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'First-class clerks room – always willing to go the extra mile!'
The Legal 500 2021.

Adam Murray CIVIL AND FAMILY CLERK - DDI: 02073325406 Mobile: 07515555407
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Adam has been a clerk at 5SAH for 18 years. He works closely with Dean Farlam in the development and management of Chambers' family and civil practice areas. His extensive experience enables him to advise on the suitability of a barrister/s for an instruction, particularly when assisting a Public Access enquiry.
He has excellent knowledge of civil and family court procedure, regularly attending the High Court for fixing appointments.
In his spare time, he enjoys playing golf, watching Arsenal FC and reading autobiographies of sporting greats.
Adam is a member of the Institute of Barristers Clerks, and a representative for the Bar Council Public Access Panel.
'The clerks are all very dependable and can be counted on to give honest answers which is a quality not all chambers possess.'
The Legal 500 2021.

Theresa Kavanagh SENIOR FEES CLERK - DDI: 02073325444 Mobile: 07861710010
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Theresa is the senior fees clerk at 5SAH. Theresa looks after all aspects of billing and fee collection. She regularly assists the chambers director, clerks, accountant and members of chambers at 5SAH in relation to fees and billing information.
Clerks are helpful and efficient and are prepared to go ‘extra mile’ to ensure that client and barrister are supported.
The Legal 500 2021.

Tessa Nejranowski Marketing & Business Development Manager - Mobile: 07753765866
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The set as a whole is praised for its provision of "really good seminars and training courses."
The Legal 500, 2021.

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How to Find Us
5 St Andrew’s Hill, London, EC4V 5BZ
DX 417 London
By Train
5 St Andrew’s Hill is a short two minute walk from either Blackfriars Station, (Circle Line, District Line & Thameslink) or St Paul’s Underground Station (Central Line).
By Car
Parking is available three minutes’ walk away, either inside the multi-storey car park on Queen Victoria Street (above Blackfriars Underground Station) or at the meters immediately outside.
St Andrew’s Hill is a no-through road and hard to turn in. It is better to aim throughout office hours for the car park.