1 Crown Office Row
John Petrie is an experienced professional with a diverse background in leadership and management across various organizations. Currently serving as Chambers Director at 1 Crown Office Row since February 2022, John also holds a trustee position at the National Holocaust Centre since January 2011. Previous roles include Chief Executive at Serle Court from July 2015 to February 2022 and Director at Aegis Trust from 2012 to 2014. Earlier in their career, John was Chief Executive Officer at England Golf from January 2008 to October 2012, Chief of Legal Operations for the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2002 to 2004, and served as an Officer in the British Army from September 1985 to July 2002.
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1 Crown Office Row
Welcome to 1 Crown Office Row We are a leading barristers Chambers with 78 barristers, including 24 KCs, based in London and 55 based in our Annex in Brighton. We are regularly rated as one of the top 30 sets of Chambers in England with large numbers of our barristers listed in Legal Directories as leaders in their field of practice. Tracing our history back to the 1930’s, we have developed a strong reputation in particular for our advocacy skills. High standards are set to obtain a tenancy here. This strict “quality control” is reflected in the large numbers of Members who have become KCs and in the regularly high numbers of appointees to the Attorney General’s A, B and C Panels. We run the widely acclaimed UK Human Rights Blog (http://ukhumanrightsblog.com) and legal podcast Law Pod UK. Our members also publish the Quarterly Medical Law Review (QMLR) available on our website. In Brighton, we practice in Family, Civil and Regulatory Criminal law from a centrally located Annex established 50 years ago with clients drawn from Brighton & Hove and a wide swathe of the South Coast and areas South of London. We provide dispute resolution and mediation services in London and Brighton and several Brighton-based barristers also accept work in accordance with the Bar’s public access scheme i.e. receiving instructions direct from members of the public. Visit our website at www.1cor.com for further information.