We are delighted to announce our results in Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2027 Rankings

This year's highlights include:

  • 5 Practice Area Rankings
  • 34 Ranked Barristers - Across 10 practice areas
  • Professional Discipline & Regulatory Law recognised as a Band 3 Practice Area for the first time

  • Crime Team - moving up to Band 3 Practice Area

  • We are particularly pleased to congratulate John Warrington on his first ranking in Inquests & Inquiries.
  • Rebecca Thomas for her first ranking in POCA & Asset Forfeiture.
  • Mark Smith for his first ranking in Family: Children.
  • Continued set rankings in Extradition (Band 2), Proceeds of Crime & Asset Forfeiture (Band 2), & Financial Crime (Band 4).

This builds on our recent success in The Legal 500, with Professional Discipline securing a Tier 3 ranking, alongside first-time individual rankings for John Warrington in Inquests & Inquiries and Rebecca Thomas in POCA & Asset Forfeiture.

Our thanks and congratulations go to all of our barristers, staff, and clients whose continued support and dedication have contributed to these outstanding results. 

Our rankings in more detail are set out below:

Professional Disciplinary & Regulatory Law | Band 3 

Many congratulations to the team for their new Set ranking, following their recent recognition in the Legal 500 in Tier 3.  

Congratulations on moving up in Professional Discipline:

  • Guy Micklewright - Band 3 
  • Matthew Corrie - Band 3

Continued recognition in Professional Discipline:

  • Wendy Hewitt - Band 3
  • Alecsandra Manning Rees - Band 4

Inquests & Inquiries

Newly Recognised in Inquests & Inquiries:

  • John Warrington - Band 5 - Leading Junior

POCA & Asset Forfeiture | Band 2 

Newly Recognised in POCA:

  • Rebecca Thomas - Up & Coming 

Congratulations on moving up in POCA:

  • John McNamara - Band 2

Continued recognition in POCA:

  • Andrew Bird KC - Band 1
  • Sarah Wood - Band 1
  • Gary Pons - Band 1
  • Barnaby Hone - Band 1
  • James Fletcher - Band 1

Extradition | Band 2 

Continued recognition in Extradition:
  • David Josse KC - Band 2
  • Ben Keith - Star Individual
  • Natasha Draycott - Band 1
  • Rebecca Hill - Band 1
  • Louisa Collins - Band 1
  • Danielle Barden - Band 4
  • David Williams - Band 2
  • Georgia Beatty - Band 3
  • Mark Smith - Band 4

Financial Crime | Band 4

Congratulations on moving up in Financial Crime:

  • Edmund Burge KC - Band 3
  • Dominic Connolly - Band 3
  • Danielle Barden - Band 3
Continued recognition in Financial Crime:
  • Andrew Bird KC - Band 4
  • Mark Cotter KC - Band 4
  • David Stern - Band 3
  • Ini Udom - Band 4
  • David McNeill - Band 4

Crime: Defence & Prosecution | Band 3

Continued recognition in Crime:

  • Mark Cotter KC - Band 3
  • John Cammegh KC - Band 6
  • Kevin Dent KC - Band 6
  • Dominic Connolly - Band 3
  • Jose Olivares-Chandler - Band 3
  • John Warrington - Band 4
  • Christopher May - Band 4
  • Oliver Kirk - Band 5
  • Francesca Levett - Band 6
  • Danielle Barden - Band 6

Financial Crime: Private Prosecutions

Continued recognition in Crime:

  • Andrew Bird KC - Band 2
  • Sarah Wood - Band 2

Family: Children

Newly Recognised in Family: Children:

  • Mark Smith - Band 5

Family: Matrimonial Finance

 

Continued recognition in Family: Matrimonial Finance:

  • Sarah Wood - Band 4

Immigration

Continued recognition in Immigration:

  • Ben Keith - Band 3
  • Mark Smith - Band 5