12KBW is proud to be recognised as a Top Ranked Set once again in the Chambers and Partners Rankings 2025. We are delighted to have 68 barrister rankings in 11 areas of law: ▪️ Personal Injury ▪️ Industrial Disease ▪️ Travel: International Personal Injury ▪️ Clinical Negligence ▪️ Employment ▪️ Costs Litigation ▪️ Motor Insurance Fraud ▪️ Aviation ▪️ Civil Liberties & Human Rights ▪️ Group Litigation ▪️ Inquests and Public Inquiries Our Practice Management Team is highly commended with Chambers and Partners commenting, “12 King’s Bench Walk provides outstanding clerking. They go out of their way to ensure the clients’ needs are met. Their clerking team is one of the very best – nothing is too much trouble and they will go to the ends of the earth to make things happen for you". We are immensely grateful to our clients for their support and thank Chambers and Partners for their rankings and research. To get in touch, please contact Oliver Parkhouse, Director of Clerking or any other member of the clerking team (chambers@12kbw.co.uk). https://bit.ly/3Ya9V9h
About us
12 King’s Bench Walk, known as 12KBW, is a long-established civil set of chambers with an outstanding reputation for excellence in personal injury, clinical negligence, costs, employment, industrial disease and international travel claims. We have many other rapidly expanding specialist practice groups related to these core practice areas. Chambers has been ranked Band 1 for Personal Injury by the legal directories over the past 14 years. We are five-time winners of Personal Injury Set of the Year, confirming our pre-eminence in this area of law. Our Practice Management Team is consistently recommended for exceptional clerking in the legal directories. 12KBW barristers are at the forefront of developments in the law, having been instructed in many of the leading tort cases of recent times. We are professional and dedicated, whilst remaining approachable and friendly. Our barristers come from a range of backgrounds and we are proud of our record of recruitment based purely on merit. We are a large set, with over 90 barristers, including 14 silks, and our aim is to continue our expansion into the future. In contrast to many other civil sets, 12KBW is able to offer a service to clients, both claimants and defendants, from the smallest portal or small claims track case, to the most complex legal point in the Supreme Court or European Court of Justice. We cover civil and employment cases throughout England and Wales, employment cases in Scotland, and a range of cases in other jurisdictions. 12KBW has always prided itself on its cohesive and supportive culture. 12KBW is led by Steven Snowden KC, Head of Chambers, supported by our Management Committee. 12KBW’s Business Support Team, led by Oliver Parkhouse, Director of Clerking, provides clients and barristers alike with an efficient, proactive and effective service. A number of our barristers sit as judges, including Recorders and Deputy District Judges, act as arbitrators or are qualified mediators.
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- Legal Services
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- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Temple, London
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1930
- Specialties
- Personal Injury, Employment & Discrimination, Clinical Negligence, Professional Negligence, International & Travel, Industrial Disease, Insurance, Product Liability, Costs, and Aviation
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Thank you to all the aspiring barristers who made a beeline for our stand at The Bar Council of England and Wales Pupillage Fair today! The future of the Bar is in safe hands! Hugely grateful to our Hollie Patterson, Ted Cunningham, Megan Griffiths, Rebecca Henshaw-Keene, Jessica Muurman and Robert Oldham for sharing their insights on pupillage and tenancy at 12 King's Bench Walk. If you couldn’t make it today, hot foot it over to our pupillage and mini-pupillage pages to find out more: https://lnkd.in/e9rZRJgu #pupillagefair2024 #pupillage #aspiringbarristers
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So very proud to lead these chambers, full of outstanding barristers and the very best clerks and support staff. Thanks to all our referees and to those who entrust us to deal with their cases.
12KBW is proud to be recognised as a Top Ranked Set once again in the Chambers and Partners Rankings 2025. We are delighted to have 68 barrister rankings in 11 areas of law: ▪️ Personal Injury ▪️ Industrial Disease ▪️ Travel: International Personal Injury ▪️ Clinical Negligence ▪️ Employment ▪️ Costs Litigation ▪️ Motor Insurance Fraud ▪️ Aviation ▪️ Civil Liberties & Human Rights ▪️ Group Litigation ▪️ Inquests and Public Inquiries Our Practice Management Team is highly commended with Chambers and Partners commenting, “12 King’s Bench Walk provides outstanding clerking. They go out of their way to ensure the clients’ needs are met. Their clerking team is one of the very best – nothing is too much trouble and they will go to the ends of the earth to make things happen for you". We are immensely grateful to our clients for their support and thank Chambers and Partners for their rankings and research. To get in touch, please contact Oliver Parkhouse, Director of Clerking or any other member of the clerking team (chambers@12kbw.co.uk). https://bit.ly/3Ya9V9h
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We are delighted to announce that Pankaj Madan of 12 King's Bench Walk has been appointed as President-Elect of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Pain Medicine Section Council. Pankaj will take over as President of the Pain Medicine Section Council in 2026 when Professor Ashish Shetty completes his term in office. It is believed to be the first time a lawyer has been appointed to such a position in the Royal Society of Medicine’s long history. The Royal Society of Medicine is one of the UK’s leading providers of continuing learning for healthcare professionals with a global network of 20,000 members. https://lnkd.in/eHh2F8Kp
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𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐔 𝐥𝐚𝐰? Dr David Sharpe KC SC, Joint Head of 12KBW's Sports Law Team, considers the implications of the recent European Court of Justice ruling on the Lassana Diarra case. The Court's decision marks a significant and seismic change to the football transfer system. It could lead to an increase in players moving clubs without the spectre of massive financial risk to them or their new clubs. The ruling will likely have significant ramifications in the UK. Given the exposure of the Premier League to the European transfer market, the CJEU ruling could have profound implications for smaller clubs that rely heavily on developing young talent and selling them on at a profit. Read the article in full here: https://bit.ly/407MXSQ #LawInSport
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12KBW are looking forward to meeting lots of prospective pupils at The Bar Council of England and Wales Pupillage Fair taking place tomorrow. Come and meet the 12KBW team on our stand: Hollie Patterson, Ted Cunningham, Megan Griffiths, Rebecca Henshaw-Keene, Jessica Muurman, Robert Oldham. They will be on hand to give expert advice to aspiring barristers and share their journeys to the Bar. Find out more about pupillage at 12 King's Bench Walk by visiting our pupillage pages: https://lnkd.in/eM7qvBfW #PupillageFair2024
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12KBW is delighted to be sponsoring the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) Asbestos Conference at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square today. APIL has brought together a host of eminent speakers and experts in the field, including our Patrick Kerr and Gemma Scott of 12 King's Bench Walk. Patrick will be speaking on ‘Cuthbert and White’. Gemma will be speaking on ‘Quantum Update’. She will also be chairing the afternoon session. 12KBW’s Practice Manager, Rob Palumbo, will be on hand at our stand today and looks forward to meeting delegates. Thank you to APIL for hosting us. Follow the link to view the full programme. (https://lnkd.in/eF7QBqJk) #APILasbestos24
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I'm really, really proud of our set. A wealth of knowledge and acumen there that cannot be captured in books, and is more than the sum of its individual parts.
12KBW is proud to be recognised as a Top Ranked Set once again in the Chambers and Partners Rankings 2025. We are delighted to have 68 barrister rankings in 11 areas of law: ▪️ Personal Injury ▪️ Industrial Disease ▪️ Travel: International Personal Injury ▪️ Clinical Negligence ▪️ Employment ▪️ Costs Litigation ▪️ Motor Insurance Fraud ▪️ Aviation ▪️ Civil Liberties & Human Rights ▪️ Group Litigation ▪️ Inquests and Public Inquiries Our Practice Management Team is highly commended with Chambers and Partners commenting, “12 King’s Bench Walk provides outstanding clerking. They go out of their way to ensure the clients’ needs are met. Their clerking team is one of the very best – nothing is too much trouble and they will go to the ends of the earth to make things happen for you". We are immensely grateful to our clients for their support and thank Chambers and Partners for their rankings and research. To get in touch, please contact Oliver Parkhouse, Director of Clerking or any other member of the clerking team (chambers@12kbw.co.uk). https://bit.ly/3Ya9V9h
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SOAS LLM International Law Graduate and Advice Line Volunteer at Nucleus Legal Advice Centre
It was a pleasure attending “The Value of Non-Legal Work & Overcoming Adversities” online event hosted by Anna Moradi of 12 King's Bench Walk and Antonieta Alvarez with Gray's Inn. It was truly an insightful and inspiring talk in which I learnt a lot about leveraging non-legal work experience in applications for Bar scholarships, pupillage applications and applications for legal roles. I’d like to thank Anna Moradi, Antonieta Alvarez and Gray's Inn for this valuable event.
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So very pleased and honoured that the Dean of the Royal Society Of Medicine has appointed me President Elect of the Pain Section Council for 2026 with a tenure of 2 years. This is a historic occasion because we believe that this will be the first appointment of a lawyer to the position in its history. Congratulations to Dr Ashish Shetty who commences his 2 year term as Section President of the Royal Society of Medicine pain section. I look forward to supporting his role. I will remain in full-time practise as Counsel throughout at Exchange Chambers & 12 King's Bench Walk.
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