9 Park Place once again recognised as "Leading Set" by The Legal 500
We are delighted to announce that we have once again been recommended as a Top-Tier set by The Legal 500 with more total recommendations (33) than any other set in Wales. Added to a record 28 individual recommendations and featuring recommendations across multiple practice areas for David Elias QC, Emyr Jones, Richard Kember and Phillip Morris, the 2018 edition also recommends Owen Williams, Cerys Walters and Cadi Dewi for the first time.
The Guide reports that we enjoy “a strong reputation across criminal, family and civil law. Expertise in the latter area includes commercial and Chancery matters, employment, personal injury and public law. In the criminal space, the set was strengthened at senior level when David Elias QC was appointed silk in 2017. The ‘excellent’ clerking team is ‘very flexible and solution-driven – nothing is too much trouble’. In particular, senior clerk Michael Lieberman is ‘superb’.”
Head of Chambers Paul Hopkins QC said, “we are delighted to report that a record twenty-eight of our members are recommended across the Legal 500 practice areas, again illustrating the breadth of quality available at 9 Park Place. We are also thrilled to see that the dedication and hard work of our clerking team has been recognised and we would like to take this opportunity of publicly thanking all those who contributed to the research programme”
Three QC’s (David Elias QC and Williams Hughes QC for crime and Paul Hopkins QC in family) are listed in the "Leading silks" list, The Legal 500’s guide to outstanding silks nationwide;
In terms of Leading Juniors in Commercial, Banking, Insolvency and Chancery Emyr Jones, Gwydion Hughes and Richard Kember are all recommended and in Construction, Planning and Environment Emyr Jones and Phillip Morris are recommended;
In Crime those recommended as Leading Juniors are Elizabeth Pearson, Heath Edwards, Matthew Roberts, Matthew Cobbe and Owen Williams;
In Employment Carys Williams, Phillip Morris, Richard Kember and Robert Vernon are recommended;
In Family and Children Law the Leading Juniors recommended are Andrew Barcello, Christina Thomas, Christopher Felstead, Eifion Williams, Katherine Broadhurst, Lisa Thomas, Matthew Barry, Owen Thomas and Richard Miller;
In Property, Cerys Walters, Emyr Jones and Gareth Thomas are all recommended;
In Public Law Nuhu Gobir is recommended;
In Regulatory, Health and Safety and Licensing Michael Hammett and Cadi Dewi are recommended.
9 Park Place Chambers has been a leading Welsh legal brand for seventy years and continues to set the standard for top quality legal representation in Wales.
