Eleven barristers join St Ives Chambers

St Ives Chambers is delighted to welcome eleven new members from 9 September 2024, who join us from KCH Garden Square in Nottingham and Leicester.

 

Our new tenants all have established reputations in the East Midlands and will join the St Ives Civil and Family Law Teams. They will continue to practise from Nottingham, Leicester and the rest of the East Midlands, from new St Ives premises due to open in early 2025.

 

Head of Chambers, Elizabeth Isaacs KC said:

 

“We are absolutely thrilled to welcome the former members of the KCH Garden Square civil and family teams to St Ives in this hugely exciting venture. We are delighted that they have chosen to further their careers here and we very much look forward to them joining us. Each new member is an experienced practitioner with an established reputation for excellence in Nottingham and the wider East Midlands and we are excited to have the opportunity to develop a relationship with their professional clients.

 

“We will open our additional premises in Nottingham in early 2025, making us the only set of chambers on the Midland Circuit to offer a comprehensive service across the East and West parts of the circuit. We remain committed to our ethos of excellence across all our practice areas and we remain proud of being a true common law set of chambers.”

 

The new members of chambers are:

 

Moira Ashton-Walsh (2000)

James Cleary (2003)

Louise Sapstead (2004)

Tom Russell (2004, admitted 1995)

Tom Bramall (2010)

Sam Coe (2012)

Siân Waldron (2012)

Ben Chapman (2015)

Holly Cross (2019, admitted 1999)

Sam Peake (2019)

Katy Fellows (2021)

 

Chambers welcome applications for tenancy in all practice areas from dedicated and committed practitioners with a particular focus on criminal and civil work, in both the East and West Midlands.

 

Applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

 

The profiles of our new members will be uploaded to our website as soon as possible.