St Paul's Chambers

Head of chambers

Mr Guy Kearl KC

Applications to

Secretary of Pupillage Committee

Practice Areas

Administrative & public law

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

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.

Construction & engineering

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

Crime/fraud

Specialist criminal law chambers offer expertise in all areas, including child abuse, human rights, violent crime, and white collar crime.

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.

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.

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.

Revenue law

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

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Learn more about St Paul's Chambers

St Paul's House, 23 Park Square, Leeds, LS1 2ND
Phone: 0113 245 5866
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stpaulschambers.com

Mini-pupillages:

Yes