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LEGAL 500 2025Guildford Chambers is a good regional chambers which covers all the bases.

LEGAL 500 2025Guildford Chambers are excellent and always accommodating and helpful.

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FAMILY FINANCE

Our expert family finance barristers deal with all aspects of financial remedies whether the parties are married or not.
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CHILDREN - PRIVATE LAW

Our Chambers is renowned for its expertise in children private law cases. Our barristers have a wide range of experience in dealing with all areas of private law.
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CHILDREN - PUBLIC LAW

Guildford Chambers has a well distinguished and extensive team of barristers who accept instructions in public law Children Act matters.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & INJUNCTIONS

Members are experienced in dealing with urgent and non-urgent cases including non-molestation orders and occupation orders.
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PROPERTY

Guildford Chambers offers specialist property barristers at all levels of seniority with expertise in real property cases.
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WILLS, TRUST & PROBATE

Our Wills, Trusts and Probate team drafts documents and offers specialist advice and advocacy to both Claimants and Defendants.
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COMMERCIAL

Our Commercial team offers advice and advocacy to businesses, owners, directors and customers on a wide variety of matters.
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PERSONAL INJURY

Our barristers can advise on all aspects of a claim, draft pleadings, assist and represent at settlement meetings and appear at interim and final hearings.
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EMPLOYMENT & REGULATORY

Our employment barristers act for both employers and employees offering advice and support in relation to both contentious and non-contentious employment law issues.

Family Finance

Our expert family finance barristers deal with all aspects of financial remedies whether the parties are married or not.

Children (Private Law)

Our Chambers is renowned for its expertise in children private law cases. Our barristers have a wide range of experience in dealing with all areas of private law.

Children (Public Law)

Guildford Chambers has a well distinguished and extensive team of barristers who accept instructions in public law Children Act matters.

Domestic Violence & Injunctions

Members are experienced in dealing with urgent and non-urgent cases including non-molestation orders and occupation orders.

Property

Guildford Chambers offers specialist property barristers at all levels of seniority with expertise in real property cases.

Wills, Trusts and Probate

Our Wills, Trusts and Probate team drafts documents and offers specialist advice and advocacy to both Claimants and Defendants.

Commercial

Our Commercial team offers advice and advocacy to businesses, owners, directors and customers on a wide variety of matters.

Personal Injury

Our barristers can advise on all aspects of a claim, draft pleadings, assist and represent at settlement meetings and appear at interim and final hearings.

Employment & Regulatory

Our employment barristers act for both employers and employees offering advice and support in relation to both contentious and non-contentious employment law issues.
GUILDFORD CHAMBERS

A PROGRESSIVE, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SET OF BARRISTERS

Guildford Chambers is a progressive, multi-disciplinary set of barristers, uniquely positioned to provide competitive and effective advocacy for individuals and businesses in Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire, London and the South East.

Our growing portfolio of clients value that we work with them as an extension of their team, and we endeavour to build strong and successful working relationships. We operate a system of specialist practice groups which ensure you receive the best advice and advocacy from your chosen barrister.

Our barristers and experienced, responsive clerking team share an uncompromising attitude to quality and client service with a sensible approach to cost.

LATEST NEWS & VIEWS

Recent News

Chambers announcement
17Apr
Chambers announcement
Guildford Chambers is delighted to announce that Dominique Gillan has been elected as Head of Chambers, and Nicola Holland and Jamie Walker-Haworth have been elected as Joint Deputy Heads of Chambers. Their appointments are effective from 17th April 2025.   Chambers owes a huge debt of gratitude to George Coates who led Chambers for 18...
Covert Recordings within Family Proceedings: Risks and Implications
26Mar
Covert Recordings within Family Proceedings: Risks and Implications
Holly Parker   With advances in technology, an increasing number of parties are seeking to rely on covert recordings in family proceedings. On the surface, such recordings may appear to provide helpful evidence of alleged behaviour. However, the courts generally view recordings of these nature in a dim light. In Re B (A Child) [2017]...
Zonal non-molestation order provisions: occupation orders through the backdoor?
17Mar
Zonal non-molestation order provisions: occupation orders through the backdoor?
Introduction Picture this: you are instructed to represent a client in their application for without notice non-molestation and occupation orders under the Family Law Act 1996 (‘FLA 1996’). The court has read the application and has granted a without notice order on the papers and listed a return hearing. All good so far. You read...
Questionnaires at First Appointments
6Jan
Questionnaires at First Appointments
Questionnaires at First Appointments are forever a battle between lawyers as to what is necessary/proportionate and what is cross-examination. Since the introduction of rule 9.14(5) there is now a direction that both parties in a financial remedies case must provide one another with a questionnaire requiring further information about their finances 14 days prior to...
WHERE TO FIND US

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Guildford Chambers Stoke House, Leapale Lane, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4LY

Telephone

01483 539131

Email

clerks@guildfordchambers.com

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