We offer expert legal advice and representation with barristers who specialise in Chancery and Commercial law.
Chambers has extensive, collective expertise and considerable practical experience of how multiple legal disciplines often overlap when applied to the actual issues our clients face. We also offer highly skilled barristers who practice in areas that fall outside the scope of traditional Chancery law.
Our friendly, professional Clerks’ Room is the principal port of call for anyone who would like to instruct a barrister at Ten Old Square.
Our team of clerks will advise on the expertise and availability of the barristers in Chambers and discuss the most suitable fee structures for your case. They will do this in a speedy and responsive manner, keeping you fully informed throughout the process.
Our clerks offer a very high quality service combined with a down-to-earth and collaborative approach.
If you would like to discuss a specific case, arrange a meeting or receive further information about any of our barristers, areas of expertise or about the way we work in general, please contact our clerks.
Our excellent legal services extend beyond case work to the provision of remote talks, complimentary training events and programmes to support our clients’ continuing competence requirements.
Further details about this can be found on our events page or by contacting Emily Overett.
Ten Old Square is a professional, friendly and forward-looking set.
We are renowned for delivering an outstanding level of service and welcome applications from like-minded individuals.
Ten Old Square is an award-winning set of Chancery barristers’.
Chambers contains some of the finest and brightest lawyers currently practising in all the current Chancery disciplines. Our Chambers comprises of talented barristers whose expertise meets and exceeds the demands of those who approach us needing legal representation and require expert advice of the very highest calibre.
Who Are We?
Who Are We?
Ten Old Square is a premium set of Chancery barristers’ chambers undertaking advocacy, advisory and drafting work in all of the legal disciplines commonly associated with Chancery Law, as well as niche areas of law not typically covered by the more mainstream, commercial sets of chambers.
We have been based in Lincoln’s Inn, one of the four Inns of Court, since 1996 following an amalgamation of 3 leading sets of Chancery chambers whose origins could all be traced back for may decades prior to the merger.
The specialist legal space is exciting and constantly evolving and there is continued, rapid change to how legal serices can be delivered. Ten Old Square combines the steadfast, traditional values associated with any premier set of barristers’ chambers married to state-of-the-art, secure technologies to enable our legal services to be delivered beyond the expectations of our professional and lay clients.
Our head of chambers is Simon Taube KC. There are currently 26 specialist, independent Chancery barristers practicing at Ten Old Square.
Our instructions usually come from UK solicitors and foreign lawyers as well as UK professionals who hold a Bar Standards Board license to instruct barristers. Please take a look at our practice areas by clicking on the tab above to get an idea of the work we undertake. We do not undertake Public Access work.
We have a highly experienced practice management team led by our Senior Clerk, Keith Plowman, who has been a barristers’ clerk since 1982; Keith has been our Senior Clerk since 1992. He is supported by the equally qualified Marc Schofield, the former Senior Clerk at 8 Stone Buildings along with Fay Bennett. Between them they have over 100 years of clerking experience and continue to garner praise from our clients for their enthusiastic and valuable guidance.
