Field Court Chambers
  • About us
  • Barristers
  • Our expertise
  • Staff
  • News
  • Publications
  • Events
  • Join us
  • Public access
  • Contact us
Menu

Field Court Chambers is a leading set of barristers based in London. As well as high quality legal advice and representation, we offer expertise in alternative dispute resolution.

Our barristers work across many areas of law but focus on: business, employment, family, housing, property, public law & Court of Protection.

 

News

01 October 2025

Legal 500 2026: 26 individual rankings (7 new), continued set ranking for 3 areas of law

In Legal 500 2026, 19 of our barristers have been ranked (with 26 individual rankings overall). We continue to be recognised as a set for our expertise in Court of Protection and community care law, social housing law and for children law. Thank you to all our clients for your support and particular thanks to everyone who gave feedback on our barristers and clerks.

Genevieve Screeche Powell
18 September 2025

Genevieve Screeche-Powell defends successful local authority in Court of Appeal on suitability of accommodation offered in performance of prevention duty

Genevieve Screeche-Powell acted for the local authority that successfully defended a s. 204 Housing Act 1996 appeal brought by a homeless applicant. This is the 1st time that the Court of Appeal has had to consider the nature and impact of the s. 189A Housing Act duties on the lawful performance of the s.195 prevention duty in section 204 appeal proceedings.

See all »

Publications

13 October 2025

Family Law Week judgment summary: Re E (A Child – Application to Discharge Care Order – Failures of Local Authority) [2025] EWFC 223 (B)

Robert Sharp summarises a judgment for Family Law Week about a child's application to discharge a care order granted 10 months earlier. The court dismissed the application and maintained the order, but in doing so made pointed comments about the local authority’s failures to implement the agreed care plan.

Aristide Hoang-Brown
06 October 2025

Switching schemes and an erroneous email address: more tenancy deposit issues in the County Court

Hot on the heels of the Court of Appeal decision in Lowe v The Governors of Sutton's Hospital In Charterhouse, the county court decision in Macintyre v Cowdray Trust Ltd and Rathbones Trust Company provides encouragement to both landlords and tenants on the thorny issue of tenancy deposits. Aristide Hoang-Brown considers how the judgment impacts landlord and tenant advisers.

See all »

Find a barrister

Direct public access

Sign up to receive our legal updates
The Chambers Pro Bono Framework LogoLegal 500 2026: Leading Set
  • Terms of business
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Disclaimer
  • Contact us

Sign up to receive our legal updates

© 2025 Field Court Chambers. All rights reserved.

Barristers regulated by the Bar Standards Board.

Websites for barristers by Square Eye Ltd.

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}
  • About us
    • Our services
    • How we charge for our services
    • Client care
    • Terms of business
    • Equality and diversity
    • Social responsibility & pro bono
  • Barristers
  • Our expertise
    • Business
      • Company / commercial
      • Employment
      • Insolvency
      • Intellectual property / media & entertainment
      • Professional negligence
    • Family
      • Children
      • Financial claims/relationship breakdown
    • Housing
      • Anti-social behaviour
      • Disrepair & service charges
      • Homelessness, allocations & judicial review
      • Housing policy & regulation
      • Possession & eviction
    • Property
      • Landlord & tenant
      • Probate, succession & inheritance
      • Real property
      • Trusts of land
    • Public law & Court of Protection
      • Court of Protection
      • Election law
      • Inquests / inquiries
      • Judicial review
      • Community care/local government
  • Staff
    • Clerks
    • Practice management
  • News
  • Publications
  • Events
    • Past events
  • Join us
    • Tenancy
    • Pupillage
    • Mini pupillage
    • Staff vacancies
    • Parental leave policy
  • Public access
  • Contact us