St John's Chambers

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Mr Matthew White

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Administrative & public law

The public law Bar spans the full range of administrative, public and constitutional law.

Banking & finance

Barristers and banks generally cross paths when something costly has gone wrong in relation to a transaction or product.

Chancery

Traditional chancery includes trusts, probate, real property and tax, while commercial chancery covers a range of finance and business disputes.

Civil law

Civil law involves relations between persons, and between persons and organisations.

Commercial dispute resolution

The commercial Bar covers a range of areas, including banking, sale of goods and shipping, insolvency, civil fraud, and insurance/reinsurance.

Common

Typically, common law chambers are multidisciplinary and are divided into practice groups so members can develop and maintain specialisations.

Company law

Company law is relevant to almost everything a company does, from filing annual returns to proper procedure in relation to board decisions.

Competition

Competition and regulatory work involves a mixture of commercial, public and European law.

Construction & engineering

Contentious construction work involves the resolution of disputes by way of litigation, mediation, adjudication or arbitration.

Employment

Employment lawyers handle a variety of issues, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, redundancy, equal pay and whistleblowing claims.

Family/matrimonial

Think about all the things that members of a family can fall out about and multiply that – that’s your area.

Insolvency/restructuring

Some of the biggest insolvencies have billions of pounds at stake, so there can be lucrative work for barristers.

IP barristers advise on issues such as infringement disputes, issues on validity of registered IP rights, and commercial agreements that deal either exclusively with IP rights or with IP rights in the wider context of larger commercial transactions.

International arbitration

When parties from different jurisdictions come into conflict over commercial relationships, they may decide that arbitration is the best method of resolution.

Landlord & tenant/housing

Housing/landlord and tenant law encompasses all aspects of residential and commercial tenancies covering issues like disrepair, human rights and succession.

Personal injury

Personal injury law falls under the law of tort and involves civil claims brought to obtain compensation for injuries.

Planning/environment

Planning law regulates the way property owners use and develop their property in the interests of the wider community.

Professional negligence

Barristers involved in this field deal with claims against professionals such as architects, accountants, solicitors and financial advisers.

Property

Property law (now sometimes labelled as real estate) embraces a wide range of work, including real property, such as contracts for sale, covenants and land registration, trusts over land; and commercial and residential tenancies involving issues as diverse as disrepair, possession claims, succession and assignment.

Regulatory

Whether it’s EU-originated, domestic or an industry code of conduct, regulation affects all aspects of civil life and commercial activity.

Revenue law

Tax barristers advise and litigate on all aspects of commercial and personal tax issues.

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One Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6DZ
Phone: 0117 923 4700
Email: [email protected]
Web: lawcareers.link/StJohns

Mini-pupillages:	Yes
Minimum qualification:	2.1 and would consider 2.2 degree with extenuating circumstances