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'If you are serious about getting the very best representation then you need look no further than 5 KBW' - Chambers UK 2019

The ‘highly efficient and friendly’ clerks’ room ‘can be relied on to provide you the best barrister to suit your client’s needs’. The ‘inimitable’ Lee Hughes-Gage ‘epitomises all of these high qualities’ Legal 500 - 2018

Heads of Chambers Sarah Forshaw QC & Mark Heywood QC lead ‘a truly excellent team’ of Counsel and clerks, ‘right from the top to the bottom’ Legal 500 - 2018

"Chambers has an array of talented and hard-working barristers who support their instructing solicitors and each other, when necessary" - Chambers UK 2019

‘The ‘fantastic’ 5KBW has dealt with many high-profile criminal cases over the last year and is ‘fast becoming a leading Chambers thanks to the ability and experience of its Counsel’ - Legal 500 - 2018

Latest News

New leading authority on contempt

19 March 2019

Senghin Kong appeared for Dr Zafar in the appeal of Liverpool Victoria Insurance v Zafar [2019] EWCA...

Court of Appeal hears Conviction Appeal of Max Clifford

12 March 2019

Sarah Forshaw QC leading Orla Daly, instructed by ABV Solicitors, today appeared before Lady...

Dominic Webber 6.10.59 - 1.3.19

8 March 2019

It is with great sadness that we must report that our friend and colleague Dominic Webber has passed...

Jeffrey Israel and Aska Fujita defend in £5m...

26 February 2019

Jeffrey Israel, leading Aska Fujita, are defending in a large-scale alleged conspiracy to supply...

BAFTA-Nominated Director Acquitted of Sexual Assault Charge

14 February 2019

Orla Daly represented the Irish BAFTA-Nominated Director, Stephen Fingleton, who had been accused of...

5KBW welcomes James Brown

4 February 2019

Chambers are delighted to welcome James Brown who joins us with immediate effect from 2 Harcourt...

Natasha Wong QC & Paul Walker in landmark FGM trial

1 February 2019

Natasha Wong QC led Paul Walker in the landmark Old Bailey trial involving the defence of a mother...

Ex-Downing Street aide jailed for rape of sleeping woman

16 January 2019

Catherine Farrelly successfully prosecuted Mark Adams, a former aide to Tony Blair and John Major,...

Danny Robinson appointed Queen’s Counsel

10 January 2019

Chambers are delighted to announce that the Lord Chancellor has today announced that Danny Robinson...

Charlotte Newell shortlisted for Legal 500 Junior of the...

4 December 2018

Many congratulations to Charlotte Newell who has today been shortlisted for the Legal 500 Crime...

'If you are serious about getting the very best representation then you need look no further than 5 KBW' - Chambers UK 2019

The ‘highly efficient and friendly’ clerks’ room ‘can be relied on to provide you the best barrister to suit your client’s needs’. The ‘inimitable’ Lee Hughes-Gage ‘epitomises all of these high qualities’ Legal 500 - 2018

Heads of Chambers Sarah Forshaw QC & Mark Heywood QC lead ‘a truly excellent team’ of Counsel and clerks, ‘right from the top to the bottom’ Legal 500 - 2018

"Chambers has an array of talented and hard-working barristers who support their instructing solicitors and each other, when necessary" - Chambers UK 2019

‘The ‘fantastic’ 5KBW has dealt with many high-profile criminal cases over the last year and is ‘fast becoming a leading Chambers thanks to the ability and experience of its Counsel’ - Legal 500 - 2018

Latest News

New leading authority on contempt

Court of Appeal hears Conviction Appeal of Max Clifford

Dominic Webber 6.10.59 - 1.3.19

Jeffrey Israel and Aska Fujita defend in £5m...

BAFTA-Nominated Director Acquitted of Sexual Assault Charge

5KBW welcomes James Brown

Natasha Wong QC & Paul Walker in landmark FGM trial

Ex-Downing Street aide jailed for rape of sleeping woman

Danny Robinson appointed Queen’s Counsel

Charlotte Newell shortlisted for Legal 500 Junior of the...

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Chambers of Sarah Forshaw QC & Mark Heywood QC

Sarah Forshaw QC

Mark Heywood QC

Jonathan Higgs QC

Anthony Orchard QC

Natasha Wong QC

Danny Robinson QC

Alistair MacDonald QC

Christopher Sutton-Mattocks

John Fairhead

Simon Sandford

Bartholomew O’Toole

Irshad Sheikh

Mark Dacey

Dominic Webber - In Memoriam

Pieter Briegel

Andrew Collings

Stephen Chippeck

Martin Hooper

Susan Rodham

Edmund Fowler

Paul Walker

Charlotte Newell

Robert Ellison

Gregory Fishwick

Benjamin Temple

Pauline Thompson

Xenia Stavrou

Ian Dear

James Brown

Catherine Farrelly

Jonathan Polnay

Catherine Pattison

Jeffrey Israel

Orla Daly

Paul Jackson

Gordon Carse

James Martin

William Davis

Valeria Swift

Dickon Reid

Rishi Nathwani

Ben Holt

Nicholas Robinson

Senghin Kong

Fiona Ryan

Charlotte Hole

Aska Fujita

Peter Eguae

Ria Banerjee

Jonathan Reuben

Samantha Bonner

Elizabeth Wilson

Phoebe Bragg

Jack Triggs

Sam Willis

Olivia Haggar

Anna Dutka

William Sneddon