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.
Our Data Protection Commitment
We take the collection, processing and storing of all personal data extremely seriously. Our entire workforce undertakes Bar Council approved, industry-standard training and certification annually with an emphasis on preserving the privacy and security of our clients’, suppliers’, members’ and employees’ personal data. A directory of all UK GDPR-certified barristers can be found here.
Privacy Notice
Please read the following information carefully. This privacy notice contains information about the information collected, stored and otherwise processed about you and the reasons for the processing. It also tells you who we share this information with, the security mechanisms we have put in place to protect your information and how to contact us in the event you need further information.
Who Are We?
Ten Old Square is a BSB-regulated set of Chancery barristers’ chambers. As such we may collect, use and is responsible for personal information about you. When we do this we are the ‘controller’ of this information for the purposes of the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
If you need to contact us about your information or the processing carried out you can use the contact details at the end of this document.
What do we do with your information?
We collect some or all of the following personal information that you provide:
Information collected from other sources
The same categories of information may also be obtained from third parties, such as members of Chambers (barristers), experts, members of the public, your family and friends, witnesses, courts and other tribunals, suppliers of goods and services, investigators, government departments, regulators, public records and registers.
How we use your personal information
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
Marketing and promotion
In relation to personal information collected for marketing purposes, the personal information consists of
This will be processed so that you can be provided with information about us and the barristers here and to invite you to events.
You may contact us using the contact details at the end of this document if you no longer wish to receive such invitations or information.
Whether information has to be provided by you, and why
If you apply to us for a position or are seeking a reference or are a member of staff your personal information has to be provided to us, so that your application/reference can be properly assessed/your employment records, pay and pensions can be administered and to enable us to comply with our regulatory obligations, and to keep accounting records.
If you are offering or providing us with goods or services your information may be processed in relation to such offers or contracts.
The legal basis for processing your personal information
We rely on the following as the lawful bases to collect and use your personal information:
Who will we share your personal information with?
It may be necessary to share your information with the following:
We may be required to provide your information to regulators, such as the Bar Standards Board, the Financial Conduct Authority or the Information Commissioner’s Office. In the case of the Information Commissioner’s Office, there is a risk that your information may lawfully be disclosed by them for the purpose of any other civil or criminal proceedings, without our consent or your consent, which includes privileged information.
We may also be required to disclose your information to the police or intelligence services, where required or permitted by law.
Sources of information
The personal information we obtain may include information obtained from:
Transfer of your information outside the European Economic Area (EEA)
This privacy notice is of general application and as such it is not possible to state whether it will be necessary to transfer your information out of the EEA in any particular case or for a reference. However, if you reside outside the EEA or your case or the role for which you require a reference involves persons or organisations or courts and tribunals outside the EEA then it may be necessary to transfer some of your information to that country outside of the EEA for that purpose. If you are in a country outside the EEA or if the instructions you provide come from outside the EEA then it is inevitable that information will be transferred to those countries. If this applies to you and you wish additional precautions to be taken in respect of your information please indicate this when providing initial instructions.
Some countries and organisations outside the EEA have been assessed by the European Commission and their information protection laws and procedures found to show adequate protection. Most do not. If your information has to be transferred outside the EEA, then it may not have the same protections and you may not have the same rights as you would within the EEA.
We have elected to store our cloud-stored data on Dropbox infrastructure located in the EU.
We may provide a link on our website to a judgment or other decision of a Court or Tribunal containing your information that has already been published elsewhere on the world wide web.
We will not transfer personal information outside the EEA except as necessary for the conduct of any legal proceedings.
If you would like any further information please use the contact details at the end of this document.
How long will we store your personal information?
We will normally store all your information:
Consent
As explained above, we are relying on your explicit consent to process your information in categories (g) to (o) above. You provided this consent when you applied to become a member of staff, tenant, pupil or mini-pupil /you asked us to provide a reference.
You have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, but this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing activity carried out prior to you withdrawing your consent. However, where we also rely on other bases for processing your information, you may not be able to prevent processing of your information.
If there is an issue with the processing of your information, please contact us using the contact details below.
Your Rights
Under the UK GDPR, you have a number of rights that you can exercise in certain circumstances. These are free of charge. In summary, you may have the right to:
If you want more information about your rights under the UK GDPR please see the Guidance from the Information Commissioners Office on Individual’s rights under the GDPR.
If you want to exercise any of these rights, please:
We will respond to you within one month from when it receives your request.
Marketing Emails
If you wish to unsubscribe from any marketing emails that you have signed up for, you can do so by contacting us by using the details below. It may take up to 7 days for this to become effective.
How to make a complaint?
The UK GDPR also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners’ Office if you are in the UK, or with the supervisory authority of the Member State where you work, normally live or where the alleged infringement of information protection laws occurred. The Information Commissioner’s Office can be contacted at http://ico.org.uk/concerns.
Future Processing
We do not intend to process your personal information except for the reasons stated within this privacy notice. If this changes, this privacy notice will be amended and placed on our website.
Changes to this privacy notice
This privacy notice was originally published on 16th May 2018 and updated on 2nd August 2023.
We continually review our privacy practices and may change this policy from time to time. When it does an amended privacy notice will be published here.
Contact Details:
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you, please contact us using the contact details below.
The best way to contact us is to write to our Senior Clerk, Keith Plowman, or contact him by email at keithplowman@tenoldsquare.com.
Please click here to download a copy of this Privacy Notice.