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Old Square Chambers

2 Pupillages
82 Tenants
7 Tenancies in last 3 years

A leading set specialising predominantly in employment, personal injury, clinical negligence and professional discipline; Old Square Chambers’ defining quality is excellence.

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Head of chambers

Mr Oliver Segal KC


The defining quality of Old Square Chambers is excellence. Our members regularly appear in landmark cases before the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, and the Employment Appeal Tribunal, placing Chambers at the forefront of UK law.

Old Square was recently awarded Chambers of the Year, with members receiving nominations or awards for Employment Silk of the Year, Personal Injury Silk of the Year, Professional Discipline and Regulatory Silk of the Year, Employment Junior of the Year, Personal Injury Junior of the Year, and Aviation Junior of the Year. Many of our barristers are consistently ranked as leading practitioners in their fields, whilst others serve as part-time judges or coroners, sit on specialist panels, act as mediators, and contribute to leading practitioner texts.

We aim to recruit tenants from a small number of carefully selected pupils each year. Chambers has a strong retention rate, and we foster a collaborative, supportive environment for our pupils. We are firmly committed to equality diversity, and inclusion, and we are proud of our increasingly diverse membership which we continue to develop. Chambers participates in several initiatives to improve access to the Bar. We are committed to ensuring our recruitment and selection processes are fair and inclusive.

We are a leading set with specialist expertise in employment, personal injury, clinical negligence, and regulatory law. Although based in Bedford Row, London, we operate nationally.

Our work is balanced between claimant and defendants (or respondents) and includes the protection of individual rights. We act on behalf of trade unions, commercial organisations, the NHS, and local and central government.

In employment, we cover all areas including discrimination, collective action, individual rights, restraint of trade, and human rights. We also have a thriving professional regulatory and disciplinary practice – particularly in the healthcare sector with members often appearing on behalf of high-profile doctors before the General Medical Council, and in the High Court seeking injunctive relief.

Our personal injury practice spans the full spectrum of litigation, with particular strength in catastrophic injury, disaster and multi-party claims. Our clinical negligence expertise includes all areas of dispute involving the medical, dental, pharmaceutical and nursing professions. We also have a significant inquests and inquiries practice. Members have worked in many of the most high-profile inquests and inquiries over the last three decades, most recently including the Grenfell Inquiry, the Paterson Inquiry, the Leveson Inquiry, the Infected Bloody Inquiry and inquests into the London Bridge and Westminster terrorist attacks. Many of our cases involve the application of European jurisprudence.

We welcome applicants with a 2.1 degree or above. Applicants should have an interest in one or more of our core practice areas. Demonstrable commitment to the same is desirable.

We assess candidates on a number of criteria, which can be found detailed on our website.

Pupils receive generous funding, high calibre training, and gain experience across a wide variety of court work and paperwork. There are also opportunities to work closely with silks on complex and often high-profile cases.

As per Pupillage Gateway.

Apply online via our website.

The 2025 award will be £70,000, comprising of an award of £60,000 and guaranteed minimum earnings of £10,000, which may be exceeded depending on earnings in the second six. A draw down system facility of up to £20,000 is available for BTC on application subject to references.

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Extra info

10-11 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4BU
Phone: 020 7269 0300
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.oldsquare.co.uk
Mini-pupillages: Yes
Minimum qualification: 2.1 degree preferred