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Join us
We are actively recruiting for Third Six pupils with an interest in family law. We have a surplus of family work, and pupils can expect to be in court every day. Further information is available on the link below and at https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/careers/third-six-vacancies-and-best-practice/
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Shortlisted for Family Clerking Team of the Year
5 Pump Court are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for Clerking Team of the Year at the Family Law Awards 2019. Voting is now open on the Family Law Awards website.
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Onyoja Momoh ranked in Legal 500
We are very pleased that once again, Onyoja Momoh has been ranked in the Legal 500 for her children law work. A highly skilled advocate, she is described as ‘Always very thoroughly prepared.’
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Join Us
Due to a significant surplus of work and a desire to expand, we are looking for high quality practitioners across all of our core areas of expertise: Civil, Crime and Family
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Direct Public Access Barristers
5 Pump Court has 40 qualified Direct Public Access Barristers with expertise in the following areas of law: Employment & Discrimination, Family, Property & Landlord & Tenant, Business & Commercial, Construction, Professional Negligence & Liability, Crime, Personal Injury.
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5 Pump Court Legal 500
5 Pump Court is well known for its criminal and regulatory work but the set also has expertise across the family and civil spectrums. The clerks’ room consists of first junior and designated criminal clerk John Wooloughan, designated family clerk Jay Dorton, designated civil clerk Greg Piner, and assistant practice clerk Stephen Bush. Our Family clerking team are also finalists for Clerking Team of the Year at the Family Law Awards 2019.
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5 Pump Court Seminar Program
We regularly provide in-house seminars to professional clients on a range of subjects within our core areas of Civil, Family and Crime. Please contact our clerks about any such requirements.
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Kemi Ojutiku Successful in Court Of Appeal
Kemi recently appeared in the Court of Appeal before Peter Jackson LJ and successfully resisted an application for permission to appeal against the decision of a Recorder by a Mother in respect of the interim removal of the subject children from her care. Kemi represented the Father who, together with the Children’s Guardian, had supported the local authority’s application for an Interim Care Order. There had been a long history of Private Law proceedings and the children were found to have suffered emotional harm.
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Dr Onyoja Momoh at POAM project workshop
Onyoja Momoh co-organises the UK POAM project workshops (EU funded) on the intersection between domestic violence and parental child abduction, which took place on 28th & 29th May 2019, hosted by the University of Aberdeen.
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5 Pump Court takes part in London Legal Walk 2019
5 Pump Court took part in the London Legal Walk 2019 on 17 June 2019 raising money for charities that provide life changing legal advice and representation to those in need.
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Mark Eldridge successfully prosecuted a Section 18 stabbing
Mark Eldridge successfully prosecuted a Section 18 stabbing at Croydon Crown Court this week where a man stabbed his ex-partner with a kitchen knife in her face after she visited him in his flat due to concerns that he was not taking prescribed medication.
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5 Pump Court are delighted to welcome new tenants
5 Pump Court are delighted to welcome Dale Timson and Nancy Williams as tenants on successful completion of their pupillages
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Mark Eldridge successfully prosecutes attempted murder and Section 18 GBH
Mark Eldridge successfully prosecutes attempted murder and Section 18 GBH at the Old Bailey. The two men ambushed and savagely attacked a 15 year old in Chessington in June 2018
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Chambers is recognised in the latest version of the Legal 500: “5 Pump Court is well known for its criminal and regulatory work but the set also has expertise across the family and civil spectrums. The clerks’ room consists of first junior and designated criminal clerk John Wooloughan, designated family clerk Jay Dorton, designated civil clerk Greg Piner, and assistant practice clerk Stephen Bush.” Our Family clerking team are also finalists for Clerking Team of the Year at the Family Law Awards 2019.
The Legal 500, 2019 '5 Pump
Court is ‘excellent’ on criminal and regulatory work related to property and
housing, including local authority prosecutions under the Housing Act 2004. The
set also has expertise across the family and civil spectrums. The clerks’ room
is ‘flexible and reactive’
The Legal 500, 2017; 5 Pump Court contains 'a good calibre of counsel' across the family, civil and criminal spectrum, and provides 'a seamless service throughout'. Indeed, the 'outstanding' clerks are 'always happy to assist' and 'go out of their way for clients'.
Comprising 52 barristers, we are regularly trusted to advise and represent an array of high profile clients including global corporations, some of the UK's top 10 insurance companies, numerous local authorities, the Crown Prosecution Service, and those charged with serious criminal offences.
5 Pump Court is one of the oldest established sets of chambers in existence, dating from 1870, and we were awarded Legal Services Commission Quality Mark status in 2005.
We take pride in the quality of service, high calibre of our barristers, and the value for money we provide to our clients. Our existing clients appreciate the open and frank approach we adopt, whether it be dealing with general enquiries as to availability of Counsel or advising on the suitability of our barristers for any particular case. Our clerks' room will readily suggest Counsel whose experience is commensurate with the complexity or size of the case.
40 of our barristers undertake Direct Public Access and Licensed Access work. For further details click on Direct Access Barristers
This website sets out the type of work covered by Chambers and contains profiles of each of our barristers. If more detailed particulars are required, our Clerks are always happy to help.
Chambers is an accredited Solicitors Regulation Authority CPD course provider.
5 Pump Court Chambers has adopted the Bar Council Standard Contractual Terms of Work. Any privately funded instructions are accepted on the basis of these terms. Should you wish to view these terms, please click here
What Clients Say
"A very reliable and professional set of Chambers which
I use time and time again"
Aynur Duman - Faradays Solicitors
5 Pump Court
Temple, London
EC4Y 7AP
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LDE 497 Chancery Lane
Hours
8.30 am until 7.00 pm
Urgent out-of-hours
07976 368031
