Lamb Building & Mitre House Chambers join forces
The members of chambers of Lamb Building and Mitre House Chambers are delighted to announce that they will be joining forces from 30th January 2012.
Mr Ami Feder will be the Head of the new set which will be based at Lamb Building, Temple (and Lamb Building, 22 Ship Street, Brighton) and, given the geographical location, will continue to be called "Lamb Building - The Chambers of Mr Ami Feder"
Members of Lamb Building and Mitre House Chambers share a long-standing commitment to the protection of individual rights and the empowerment of the vulnerable in our community. Members of the new "Lamb Building" will sustain and develop this commitment.
We are delighted that our clerking teams will be uniting and that under Gary Goodger, our Senior Clerk, we will be offering specialist clerking teams in all of our main areas of practice.
By joining forces the members of the existing chambers will be creating a set of over 70 members, able to offer our clients strong dedicated teams across a wide range of specialisations.
The largest groups will be our established Criminal Law team including our Head of Chambers, Ami Feder, three Queen's Counsel and senior juniors including Francis Gilbert, who has been the longstanding Head of Chambers at Mitre House; our well respected Family Law team, and the Immigration & Nationality team incorporating, as well as present practitioners at Lamb Building, the body of the established Mitre House Chambers immigration team ranked by Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 for some years as a leading applicant focussed team in this area.
Our Civil team will maintain its particular strength in housing and employment cases and a varied expertise across the full range of civil disputes. Members of different teams are individually listed in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories. Members of the new set will continue to provide high quality advice, representation, and mediation.
Chambers will continue to have a strong commitment to public law and human rights cases.
Chambers comprises individuals who specialise in one or more of our key areas of practice, namely:
CRIMINAL LAW: Our Criminal Team defends and prosecutes cases at all levels of seriousness and in all levels of court, both nationally and internationally.
FAMILY LAW: Children: public and private law; matrimonial property; TOLATA; special educational needs; child abduction; domestic abuse.
IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM & NATIONALITY: The members of our Immigration and Nationality team provide advice and representation at all levels in relation to asylum, personal and business immigration, British nationality, statelessness, and related matters.
EMPLOYMENT AND DISCRIMINATION LAW: For employers and employees.
FINANCIAL LITIGATION & FRAUD: Confiscation and forfeiture cases; cases involving complex fraud; VAT tribunals; civil recovery; insolvency.
ADULT WELFARE: "Best Interest" cases, Court of Protection and judicial review.
MENTAL HEALTH: Mental Health Review Tribunals; cases involving a substantial mental health element e.g. manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.
PUBLIC LAW, JUDICIAL REVIEW, HUMAN RIGHTS, and EUROPEAN LAW: These permeate much of the work done in our core practice areas and are a focus for many of our members.
HOUSING LAW: For tenants and housing authorities; landlord & tenant; judicial review of local authority decisions.
PRISON LAW & PRISONERS' RIGHTS: adjudications; categorisation disputes; parole hearings; prison crime; judicial review. Also miscarriage of justice and CCRC cases.
POLICE LAW, ACTIONS AGAINST THE POLICE, POCA, SOPO & ASBO CASES: Both on behalf of and against the police.
REGULATORY & DISCIPLINARY LAW: Health and Safety; professional conduct regulation; general regulatory law; professional disciplinary tribunals; claims against medical, therapeutic and other professionals.
SPORTS LAW: Allegations of misconduct by sportsmen and women, sports bodies; procedural issues (e.g. challenges to selection); conflicts within sporting bodies; equine law.
OTHER SPECIALISATIONS: Individual members maintain other areas of specialisation, most notably personal injury, probate and general property work.