Money, debt & disputes
Money, debt and dispute barristers, instructed directly.
When money is owed, a contract has gone wrong or a civil dispute is heading to court, a barrister can advise on your position and represent you.
Most civil disputes come down to money: a contract that was broken, an invoice that has not been paid, a claim that needs defending, or a loss that someone else should put right. A barrister can tell you quickly whether you have a strong case, what it is worth and how to pursue or defend it.
Through Direct Access you can instruct a barrister directly, without going through a solicitor first, which keeps costs proportionate to the sum in dispute. Barristers are regulated by the Bar Standards Board.
Choose the area closest to your dispute below, or send us the details and we will match you with the right barrister.
Through Direct Access you can instruct a barrister directly, without going through a solicitor first. Barristers are regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB).
Areas within Money, debt & disputes
Choose the area closest to your matter.
Contracts
When a contract is broken or its meaning is disputed, a barrister can advise on your rights and remedies and represent you.
→Civil disputes
For civil claims of all kinds, a barrister can assess the merits, value the case and represent you in court.
→Debt recovery
If you are owed money, a barrister can advise on the quickest route to recover it and represent you in court.
→Small claims
Even a small claim can be worth getting right. A barrister can advise on the merits and help you prepare or defend the hearing.
→Insolvency
For personal and corporate insolvency, a barrister can advise on bankruptcy, winding up and director duties and represent you.
→Defamation & privacy
When your reputation or privacy is harmed, a barrister can advise on defamation and privacy claims and represent you.
→Professional negligence
When a professional's poor advice or work causes you loss, a barrister can advise on a negligence claim and represent you.
→Insurance
When an insurer declines a claim or disputes cover, a barrister can advise on the policy and represent you.
→Legal costs
Disputes about legal costs can be substantial in their own right. A barrister can advise on costs and represent you at assessment.
→Mediation
Many disputes are best resolved without a trial. A barrister can act as your mediator or represent you in mediation.
Alexander Bunzl
Alexander Bunzl is a commercial, property and family barrister who appears regularly in the County Court, the Senior Courts and the Family Court. He...
Amy Sloan-Thomas
Amy's commercial chancery practice has involved her in many aspects of company law, including: - • Advising on, drafting, and reviewing business...
Andrew Locke
Andrew Locke is a barrister at Nexus Chambers with a mixed practice across landlord and tenant, commercial, regulatory and licensing, and criminal...
Andrew Marsden
Andrew Marsden is a specialist in shareholder, director, partnership and commercial-agent disputes, ranked in Band 1 of Chambers UK and the Legal 500....
Andrew Mckie
Representing both claimants and defendants, Andrew has experience in a wide range of landlord and tenant disputes, including: - Disrepair claims -...
Arshad Ghaffar
Arshad Ghaffar is a commercial dispute resolution barrister with over 20 years' experience, specialising in international and commercial arbitration,...
Azeem Ali
Azeem Ali is a specialist in Personal Injury (including RTA claims), Credit Hire, Consumer Credit and Contract work. He is based in Manchester with a...
Barnaby Hope
Barnaby Hope is a barrister specialising in legal costs, professional negligence and commercial disputes. Called in 2011 after four years as an...
Charles Mannan
Mr Mannan has a thriving practice, being instructed by solicitors and directly by members of the public under direct access in employment law. His...
Charles Price
Charles Price is an employment and discrimination barrister at No5 Chambers with over 22 years' experience, acting for both employees and employers. A...
Christopher Coyle
Christopher Coyle's specialisms lie primarily in the field of public and administrative law, although his practice also encompasses commercial and...
David Fearon
David specialises in construction, engineering and process engineering work, dealing with contentious and non-contentious matters and in particular...
David Hirst
David specialises in defamation, privacy and confidence, data protection, IP, harassment and other media and entertainment related work and is...
David Mendes Da Costa
David Mendes Da Costa is a family and civil barrister, called in 1976, who specialises in disputes over jointly owned property alongside financial...
Dirk van Heck
Dirk van Heck is a barrister specialising in privacy, data protection and commercial litigation, authorised to conduct litigation since 2014. He has...
Dr Alexander Khan
Alex is a highly experienced and respected barrister with over 25 years of practice, specialising in financial applications arising from divorce, both...
Dr John Brown
Civil Litigation is often described as " the most complicated indoor sport devised by mankind ". Going to Court is not to be undertaken without fully...
Duncan Kynoch
Duncan is a commercial chancery practitioner. His work ranges across the full spectrum of property and company/commercial and disputes including;...
Elissa DaCosta-Waldman
Elissa DaCosta-Waldman is a family finance barrister, mediator, collaborative lawyer and Family Law Arbitrator. Called in 1990, she specialises in...
Farhan Asghar
Farhan Asghar is a barrister specialising in legal costs alongside a wide property, wills, probate and trusts practice, often involving foreign...
Feliks Kwiatkowski
Feliks Kwiatkowski is a civil law barrister at Central Court Chambers who has practised since 1977, exclusively in civil law since 1998. A...
Gary Summers
Gary Summers is a barrister with over 30 years' experience specialising in private prosecutions, commercial disputes, fraud, insolvency and...
Graeme Wood
Practice at the highest level, involvement in law programs at some of the world's leading institutions, leadership of a major transatlantic law...
Hermione Williams
Hermione's Company law practice includes shareholder disputes, derivative actions, unfair prejudice petitions, claims against directors for breach of...
Horaine Henry
Horaine has a broad practice that intersects across Civil and Public and Regulatory law. Horaine regularly appears in the County Court, before...
Hugh O'Donoghue
Hugh is an expert in the laws of Ireland and is fully qualified in Ireland. Hugh was Chair of the EU and International Affairs of the Law Society in...
Huw Davies
Huw Davies is a barrister with over 25 years' experience in employment, commercial, construction and contractual disputes, with a strong commercial...
Huw Shepheard
About me Huw Shepheard undertakes commercial and contractual disputes and public law litigation, advisory work and drafting over a range of practice...
Jala Patang
Jala is a leading barrister in family law and her busy practice includes a wide variety of cases, including allegations of domestic violence, coercion...
James Miller
James specialises in family law, civil litigation and costs. He accepts instructions in relation to Children Act matters (child arrangements) as well...
Janaka Siriwardena
Janaka is instructed for both Claimants and Defendants and has dealt with fast and multi-track trials for breach of contract, family property and...
Jeff Hardman
Jeff Hardman is a seasoned trial advocate and litigator. He has been a barrister for more than 10 years and is recommended by the legal directories as...
Jerome Wilcox
Jerome's practice centres around all forms of dispute arising out of general contract with a particular emphasis on building and property related...
John Lucas
I offer expertise in a wide range of legal fields and in particular criminal defence work including, complex fraud, murder and attempted murder, rapes...
John Meredith-Hardy
John is regularly instructed on coverage, indemnity & related disputes by both the insured and insurers. John's experience encompasses a range of...
Jonathan de Rohan
"Jonathan read through the documents in my dispute quickly, explained the necessary procedure succinctly and managed to settle a 10 month disagreement...
Joseph Chiffers
I am a Cheshire-based direct access barrister specialising in civil and commercial litigation. I have over 13 years experience in these areas. My...
Joseph Giret KC
Joseph Giret KC is an experienced and highly regarded silk recognised for his formidable advocacy, commercial acumen and pragmatic approach to dispute...
Julian Gun Cuninghame
Why choose me? I will always fight your corner in court and outside court. I have expertise in landlord and tenant cases acting both for landlords and...
Julie O'Malley
I am an experienced barrister of 30 years' call, with expertise in - Divorce, separation and money issues, for married and unmarried couples. -...
Khairie Gedal
Khairie is able to advise clients through a wide range of legal sectors including, International, Contract and Diplomatic law. After being called to...
Mark Engelman
Mark Engelman has acted in numerous high profile cases including for the estate of Adrian Jacobs against JK Rowling and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc's...
Mark Spackman
Mark enjoys a broad commercial and chancery practice with a particular specialization in insolvency work, both personal and corporate. Mark has...
Matthew Feldman
Matthew's particular areas of property-related practice include: - adverse possession - boundary disputes - easements and covenants - mortgages, -...
Meg Cochrane
Meg is a commercial and civil disputes barrister acting for directors, shareholders and companies in commercial, contract and consumer disputes,...
Michael Cameron-Mowat
Michael is an experienced advocate across a wide range of practices. Michael accepts instructions in all areas of Chamber's areas of expertise. Prior...
Michael Clark
Michael's practice covers a broad range of litigation and arbitration involving complex commercial disputes. He accepts instructions in the following...
Michael Rogers
Michael regularly acts for Claimants and Respondents in Employment Tribunals, the EAT and the High Court. His practice includes unfair dismissal,...
Michael Trevelyan
Are you in arrears with your mortgage or rent? Are you a landlord who needs to evict a bad tenant? Are you worried about a Charging Order being placed...
Muhammad Imtiaz
My professional experience lies in Commercial Chancery, Company, Construction, Civil Fraud, Deformation, International and offshore, Landlord and...
Neil Mendoza
Neil is a highly accomplished commercial litigator whose practice substantially involves disputes in a business context. Whilst providing friendly,...
Nick Blake
I have been instructed in a broad range of professional negligence matters. Over the years since commencing practice in 1998, I have acted in most...
Nick Wright
Nick Wright is one of the most approachable, client focused, easy to deal with Counsel you will ever instruct. Nick has made this his trade mark since...
Nigel Brockley
I have extensive experience of advising both companies and individuals in relation to all insolvency issues. My experience within this field has...
Patrick Boch
I have about a decade's worth of experience of tax, including of: - litigation and representation in the tax tribunals - inheritance tax and capital...
Paul Dipré
Family law, Children Paul represents clients at all stages of private law children disputes. He regularly represents parents and guardians in...
Paul French
Independent insolvency barrister,offering advisory, advocacy and consultancy services in relation to all insolvency and insolvency-related matters, to...
Paul Oakley
Philip Galway-Cooper
Philip is a property barrister appearing before all tribunals including the Court of Appeal, High Court, County Courts and Leasehold Valuation...
Philip Newman
I qualified as a barrister in 1977, and have practised both as a barrister and solicitor. That gives me a distinct advantage when advising my clients,...
Professor Mark Watson-Gandy
Effective and respected barrister with expertise in banking, insolvency, directors disqualification and civil fraud work, offering expert and...
Richard Bloomfield
Professional negligence - Regulatory - Contentious probate - Judicial Review
Robert Rhodes KC
Why Choose me ? I am good with people, and able to empathise with them. - I am a senior KC with extensive judicial experience. - Mediation: - I am an...
Roderick Hine
Rod is an experienced advocate with over 30 years call. Has sat as a Deputy District Judge for the last 12 years. Rod's practice mainly involves the...
Saad Karim
Saad has a broad spectrum of practice, from complex civil and commercial disputes to cross border Family Law, Children Act proceedings and Trust...
Sandy Joseph-Urquhart
I offer expertise in commercial and general civil with a particular focus on commercial contracts, insolvency, bankruptcy, company disputes, property...
Sean Middleton
I am authorised to coduct litigation. This means a 1-stop-shop. Not all Public Access barristers can receive papers on your behalf or deal directly...
Sheila Aly
I am a highly experienced practitioner and have been ranked in the Legal 500 as a Leading Junior in Employment Law. Having spent a few years of my...
Simon Cavender
In relation to construction matters, Simon has advised and acted for Employers, main Contractors, sub-Contractors and members of the professional...
Stephen Boyd
I offer expertise in disputes about contracts, particularly relating to travel, as I have arbitrated 60 holiday disputes, namely, claims brought...
Stephen James Willmer Willmer
My practice focuses on the law of contract, that is, the law relating to agreements between people and organisations. Quite often, I am called upon...
Steven Hayden
I am a criminal defence barrister working from the Chambers of Michael Mansfield KC and fully qualified in 2010. I have represented hundreds of people...
Suffian Hussain
Suffian is a specialist property barrister, and his experience encompasses (but is not limited to): Real property disputes; Residential and commercial...
Suleman Shams
Suleman has a growing international practice. He has advised Dubai-based businesses and individuals in commercial disputes and intends to register as...
Tahina Akther
An experienced dispute resolution Barrister, contracts, businesses, high-net-worth. Recognised in the legal directories. Can conduct litigation. -...
Timothy Becker
This includes all areas of corporate and individual insolvency related litigation both in UK and some cross boarder. Personal : Statutory demand...
Timothy Raggett KC
I practice in all areas of Regulatory Civil restraints Orders, Confiscation and criminal property, Debt Recovery (Freezing / injunction Orders), Civil...
Frequently asked questions
Can a barrister help me recover a debt without a solicitor?
Yes. Through Direct Access you can instruct a barrister directly to advise on and pursue a debt or civil claim, without going through a solicitor first.
Is it worth it for a smaller claim?
Often yes. Many barristers offer fixed fees and can advise on whether the likely recovery justifies the cost. There is no charge to enquire.
Can a barrister represent me in the County Court?
Yes. A Direct Access barrister can draft your case and represent you at hearings and trial in the County Court and higher courts.
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