Civil

The Civil Team comprises of 10 practitioners whose years of call range from 1987 - 2008.

Angel Chambers is able to provide a Civil Team with significant expertise in the main areas of personal injury, clinical negligence, commercial, employment, chancery and property law. We aim to give practical advice and a professional service.

Angel Chambers is well known locally, and enjoys an excellent reputation for good service to professional and lay clients alike, whilst providing absolute client confidentiality.

The Civil Team can take advantage of modern, large and first rate conference facilities, including the ability for video conference directly from Chambers. The facilities are particularly good for joint settlement meetings and other larger conference needs, including seminars.

Members of the team undertake civil work across the spectrum of the High Court, County Court, Tribunals, Inquests, ADR and Arbitration. We deal routinely with multi-track, fast track and small claims cases.

Team members regularly undertake work under legal expenses insurers, CFA and private instructions.

We offer advisory, drafting and advocacy service in the following fields of expertise:

Personal Injury
The range of work includes all aspects of personal injury work, including structured settlements and infant settlements. Team members undertake claimant and defendant work and deal with individuals, companies, Public Authorities and Trade unions. The team have a wide range of expertise in accident at work cases, criminal negligence disputes, disease and toxic based litigation, group litigation, insurance litigation, highways claims, RTA, fatal accident claims, professional negligence claims and stress at work claims.

Commercial
Team members are experienced in dealing with all types of commercial litigation. We are able to provide advice and advocacy skills on a wide range of commercial disputes involving companies, partnerships and individuals. The main areas of expertise include insolvency issues, sale and supply of goods, consumer and trade credit, commercial torts and the interpretation of commercial contracts. We have found that commercial clients in particular are impressed by conferences held in our modern facilities.

Chancery and Property
Team members can offer expertise in all property matters from commercial to private landlord and tenant disputes, boundary disputes, adverse possession, easements and rights of way disputes, wills, trusts, TOLATA, planning, building and environmental disputes. We deal with all types of claims based in nuisance, tort and negligence; including professional negligence by surveyors and architects. We are able to offer a complete range of service from drafting contracts, to their interpretation and subsequent enforcement.


Our Aim
The Civil Team will generally return paperwork with 14 days of receipt. If there are difficulties with this timeframe, then our instructing solicitors will be informed directly, by counsel, in advance of the deadline. Instructions can be accepted and returned electronically.

We are able to offer an efficient, practical and competitive team of experienced civil practitioners working from first class modern facilities.

Fees are to be agreed with the clerks on a pre-arranged basis and can be quoted on an hourly rate of or by fixed fee by way of negotiation as required.

The Civil Team includes 2 fluent Welsh speakers.

Members of Angel Chambers
Alison Donovan
Phillip Harris-Jenkins
Dominic Boothroyd
David Blake
Cenydd Richards
Richard Steer
Mark Monaghan
Lucy Leader
Jake Pratt
Clare Templeman
Simon Stephenson
Laura Leavesley
Kate Smith
Cadi Dewi