Wilberforce Chambers
Wilberforce Chambers is a leading commercial chancery and business law set comprising 88 specialist barristers, including 35 KCs. Members are instructed in complex and legally significant matters across the Bar and provide advocacy, advisory, drafting, arbitration and mediation services to a wide range of clients in the UK and internationally. Founded in 1928 by Andrew Clark, chambers developed through successive generations of distinguished practitioners, including Richard Wilberforce and Irvine Goulding, and re-established itself after the Second World War at 3 New Square. Significant expansion followed under Edward Nugee from 1976, during which chambers broadened its work to include patents, commercial matters and pensions, becoming widely recognised as a leading set in the pensions field. Chambers continued to grow in size and scope and now offers services across the principal commercial, chancery and business law disciplines. Former members have gone on to hold senior judicial appointments, including positions in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, reflecting chambers’ longstanding contribution to the development of the law and the judiciary.
Areas of Expertise
- Arbitration and ADR
- International arbitration
- Domestic arbitration
- Early neutral evaluation
- Expert determination
- Accredited mediators
- Art and cultural property
- Banking and finance
- Charities
- Civil fraud and asset recovery
- Commercial disputes
- Company law
- Cryptocurrency
- Insolvency
- International / Offshore
- Joint venture and partnership disputes
- Pensions
- Professional liability
- Property
- Regulatory and disciplinary
- Sports law
- Tax
- Trusts, probate and estates: contentious and non-contentious