What We Do
Areas of Law
We offer Legal Advice and Representation in a wide range of areas from commercial & civil through trusts Property and Probate to Immigration and Corporate Crime. We do not undertake Family or General Criminal work.
Mediation
Our Barristers have a strong commercial focus and regularly settle their client’s disputes through mediation or act as mediators themselves.
International
With Barristers in London and India and our head of chambers as a consultant to a boutique firm of Avvocati in Italy 1215 Chambers has true international reach.
Our Barristers
Experienced Barristers with a clear commercial focus and International Expertise
About
1215 Chambers is a London Barristers' Chambers formed by a select group of experienced practitioners seeking to create a new kind of Chambers for the modern Bar. From our modern offices in the heart of Legal London we offer high quality legal advice, representation and dispute resolution to clients from individuals to multi-nationals.
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Our Barristers
Simon Canter
Richard O’Sullivan L.L.M M.CIArb Barrister (E&W)
Satnam Singh Bains L.L.M Barrister (E&W) Advocate (I)
Latest News
Howe to get a Longer Tonge*
Howe v London Borough of Brent [2024] EWCA Civ 1444 Successful in a Court of Appeal Judgment today that people (well…Lawyers… if they are actually people) might find interesting. The Court of Appeal confirmed that a family member of a secure tenant with a right to buy their home is able to exercise a shared[…]
The Price of Silence
Hot from the bench of the Court of Appeal is Northamber PLC v Genee World Ltd & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 428 a breach of exclusivity agreement/ inducing breach of contract case that has a interesting sidebar on mediation/costs. Ignoring an offer to mediate can be expensive Key points that might interest ADR practitioners: Where[…]
New Premises at Central Court
On 31 January 2021 1215 Chambers will be moving to new premises at Central Court, 25 Southampton Buildings, Holborn, London WC2A 1AL. Still in the heart of Legal London our new premise has improve conference facilities and is more accessible.
Court of Appeal Gives Guidance on Late Homelessness Appeals
Richard O’Sullivan appeared for the successful appellant in Al-Ahmed v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 51 The Court of Appeal gave important guidance on when permission should be granted for a homeless applicant to bring a s204 Housing Act 1996 appeal outside of the 21-day time limit. The Appeal overturned the High[…]
Bribery and Corruption Seminar
1215 Chambers- In co-operation with Lex Meridian and Be Coherent Ltd will be offering Bribery and Corruption seminars in Dehli in October 2016. Please contact Satnam Bains for booking. Take a look at teh brochure below or download a copy here
Richard O’Sullivan Appointed as Preferred Arbitrator
1215 Chambers’ Richard O’Sullivan has been appointed as preferred Arbitrator for a new Med-Arb joint venture with Martin Plowman’s Mediation 1st. Martin Plowman is one of the country’s leading mediators, ranked in Chambers and Partners and the head of Medaition 1st a stable of sought after and highly rated mediators. Mediation 1st has been developing[…]
1215 Chambers Launch ALL ADR
1215 Chambers has launched its Alternative Dispute Resolution service ALL ADR with a particular focus on Hybrid ADR that fuses the collaborative and cobative ADR process. For more information click Here
Arran Dowling Hussey Appointed to UNICTRAL Advisory Role
1215 Chambers Arran Dowling-Hussey is attending as a nominee of the CIArb an UNCITRAL Working Group in New York. The Working Group II runs from 1-5 February and is discussing inter alia the revision of UNCITRAL Notes on Organising Arbitral Proceedings.
Arran Dowling Hussey’s brief guide to Arbitration
A short video guide to Arbitration given at the Chartered Institute of Arbitration.
New Year- New Law
This Article is a more detialed version of the article produced for the December 2015 issue of Fine Magazine At the start of the new year we need to take a look back to the dog days of the last to see some changes in Consumer Protection Legislation that underpin a less well publicised new[…]