Field Court Chambers is a leading set of barristers and mediators based in London.
We work across many areas of law but focus on: business, employment, family, housing, property, public law & Court of Protection.
Field Court Chambers is a leading set of barristers and mediators based in London.
We work across many areas of law but focus on: business, employment, family, housing, property, public law & Court of Protection.
Pupil barristers James Fowler and Andrew Burrell have accepted offers of tenancy with us. They will join us as tenants in September after completing their pupillages.
Dr Martina van der Leij, led by Anna McKenna KC, acted for a mother in care proceedings concerning 3 children who had contracted gonorrhoea while in their mother’s care. Using her microbiology research background, Martina analysed the medical records and assisted in drafting detailed questions to experts to crystallise the issues in dispute. The court ruled that the children be returned to their mother’s care.
Housing law practitioners will be familiar with the appointment of Equality Act assessors when a disability discrimination defence goes to trial. Genevieve Screeche-Powell discusses how the recent judgment in Laidley v Metropolitan Housing Trust Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 448 impacts the requirement to disclose the advice of these and other court-appointed assessors.
Joanna Thom and Harrison Engler represented a father pro bono in his successful appeal against a finding that he raped the mother. Rather unusually, the rape finding had been made 3 years before. In his judgment, Mr Justice Hayden gives important guidance on procedural and substantive aspects of private law fact-findings.