12 King’s Bench Walk is proud to be recognised once again as a Top Ranked Set by Chambers and Partners.

This year’s Bar rankings saw 68 barrister rankings for 12KBW across our specialist areas of law, recognising our leading expertise in:

  • 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

According to Chambers and Partners personal injury rankings, Band 1 ranked 12KBW is noted for being “routinely instructed in the most important cases in the market…members have significant experience appearing before the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.”  

Our leading expertise in personal injury was recently recognised at the Legal 500 Awards where 12KBW won Personal Injury Set of the Year 2024. We have recently been shortlisted for ‘Personal Injury Set of the Year 2024’ at the upcoming Chambers UK Bar Awards.

12 King’s Bench Walk’s Band 1 Industrial Disease Team is “unmatched in its depth and breadth of experience in asbestos-related and other industrial diseases”.

Our Clinical Negligence Team has secured a richly deserved promotion from Band 5 to Band 4, reflecting our growing number and seniority of rankings in this area of law. Chambers Bar Guide comments, “12 King’s Bench Walk hosts a well-regarded team of silks and juniors with great experience in highly complex medical matters and excellent command of the complex subject material.”

Our International Personal Injury Team has maintained a Band 1 ranking. 12KBW is described as a “highly regarded personal injury set with a strong reputation in the travel sector with experience appearing before the courts in several foreign jurisdictions, as well as the UK Supreme Court and Court of Appeal”.

Chambers and Partners comments on our “impressive claimant-side employment practice, which sees the barristers handle a range of claims on behalf of individuals in professional and financial services as well as the public sector. The fantastic barristers also have experience representing respondents”. 

Our Practice Management Team is highly commended with Chambers & 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.” 

For further details on our ranked barristers and teams, visit the Chambers and Partners website.

To get in touch, please contact Oliver Parkhouse, Director of Clerking or any other member of the clerking team.