Serjeants' Inn Chambers

Serjeants' Inn Chambers specialises in important, high profile medical, police, regulatory and public law cases, often involving political, ethical or social issues. Full details of practice areas are set out below. Current examples of work include: • the Hillsborough inquests; • the NHS whistle-blowing review; • the first female genital mutilation prosecution; • the Nicklinson and Martin assisted dying litigation; • two multi-million pound group litigations arising out of defective hip implants (on behalf of over a hundred claimants); • litigation relating to the alleged Forex manipulation; • litigation arising from the Winterbourne View care home scandal; • disciplinary proceedings and judicial review relating to the Plebgate affair; • the In Amenas/BP terrorist siege inquests. Chambers and Partners notes that we have “unrivalled expertise at all levels" and in addition to numerous individual rankings we are recommended as a leading set for clinical negligence, Court of Protection, professional discipline & regulatory law, police law, public & administrative and product liability law. Our Heads of Chambers are Angus Moon QC and John Beggs QC. We have been joined by ten new tenants over the last eighteen months and now have over 50 members. Robert Francis QC was knighted this year in recognition of his work as Chair of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust inquiry. John de Bono took silk in this year’s competition, the fourth member of the set to be appointed since 2010. We have recently appointed a senior management team who will draw on commercial, clerking and client service skills gained on both sides of the profession to run the set for the benefit of members and clients.