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 15 years. We are six-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 16 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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