Welcome to Coram Chambers
We are a leading specialist set providing an outstanding service in our core areas of family law, as well as associated areas of civil practice including judicial review, human rights, mental health and care standards.
Chambers was founded in 1999 by members of 4 Brick Court and Queen Elizabeth Buildings. Chambers now has 65 barristers based in Fulwood Place in the heart of London. From the outset, Chambers has demonstrated a strong commitment to both publicly funded and private client work. We enjoy a strong and consistent reputation for client focused representation in all our areas of practice.
Members of Chambers act in leading cases, and we continue to be at the forefront of practice in key areas of family law, including public and private law children cases, adoption, wardship and the international movement of children. In addition, Chambers has key strengths in family finance and money cases. We are a centre of excellence in our areas of expertise and are recognised as a set which ‘delivers results’ (Legal 500). Members are regarded as highly committed and give ‘their hearts and souls to cases’ (Chambers and Partners).
Our experienced team of clerks are renowned for their dedication, attention to detail and reliability. They ensure that professional and lay clients receive an efficient, friendly and bespoke service.
Legal Headlines
Academic study sounds alarm on criminal justice reform
Government ambitions to impose top-down change on the criminal justice system may be doomed, according to an international academic study. :: UKAuthority
COMMENT: Campaigners call for an overhaul of CCRC
The Innocence Network UK, an umbrella group for the university-based Innocence Projects set up by law students to investigate miscarriage cases, has just called for an overhaul of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and its referral powers. :: Guardian
MPs warn: Brussels seeks to dictate laws and punishments
A“massive power grab” by European bureaucrats would allow them to dictate laws and punishments in the UK, MPs have warned. :: Telegraph :: Daily Mail
Jackson to push for provisional costs assessments in all courts
Lord Justice Jackson has said he has prepared a draft rule for the introduction of provisional costs assessments on a national basis after the success of a pilot at Leeds County Court. :: Solicitors Journal
Proposed online privacy rules are a 'missed opportunity'
Lawyers have expressed concern over the European Commission’s overhaul of the EU’s online privacy rules that will see companies facing fines of as much as 2 per cent of annual turnover for breach of code. :: The Lawyer
Collapse ofÂŁ30m corruption trial under fresh scrutiny
Investigators have discovered four intact files of supposedly "shredded" documents that caused the collapse of Britain's biggest police corruption trial and allowed eight officers accused of framing innocent men to walk free. :: Independent :: Telegraph :: Guardian
