Pump Court maintains Top Tier status in the Legal 500 2025 rankings

We are very proud to announce that Pump Court Chambers has maintained its status as a Top Tier Set in the latest edition of The Legal 500 UK Bar Guide.

Chambers is ranked as a Tier 1 set for Family: Children and Domestic Abuse, Family: Divorce and Financial Remedy and Crime (General and Fraud) on the Western Circuit.

Pump Court is also ranked as a Leading Set for Family on the South Eastern Circuit and Employment on the Western Circuit.

We are also delighted that the number of members ranked as Leading Individuals this year has increased to 50 across our key practice areas: Family: Children and Domestic Abuse, Family: Divorce and Financial Remedy, Family: Private FDR Judges and Arbitrators, Crime (General and Fraud), Employment, Inquests and Inquiries, Business and Regulatory Crime (including Health & Safety, Commercial Litigation, Charities and Personal Injury.

Several members of the family team are newly ranked in the London Bar section this year, including Edward Boydell KC, Julian Reed, Helen Brander, Mark Ablett and Samara Brackley. Elizabeth Spence, Stuart Snow, Paul Mertens, Victoria Ellis, Cordelia Williams and Rebekah Batt are all newly ranked, or have been elevated in the rankings.

Paul Mertens, Timothy Salisbury and Stephanie Painter are listed in the Inquests and Inquiries table and Stephanie also features as a Rising Star for Crime, alongside Ed Wylde.

Many thanks to all our clients for engaging with the research process – a selection of  feedback from this year’s guide includes the following accolades:

• Pump Court Chambers is the ‘go-to set’ for a variety of clients for advice on financial remedy litigation.
• Pump Court Chambers is a ‘very strong family set with a good spread of expertise and experience’ offering expert advice on the full spectrum of family law issues to both domestic and international clients.
• Pump Court Chambers is a ‘go-to set’ for employment law matters and handles the full range of contentious and non-contentious mandates for both employers and employees.
• Pump Court Chambers is ‘an excellent set with some top-notch practitioners’ who continue to act in high-profile cases of murder, large-scale drug conspiracies, serious sexual offences, courts-martial and high-value fraud.
• ‘Pump Court goes from strength to strength with good advocates at all levels and makes efforts to meet clients’ needs.’
• ‘Tony Atkins, James Collier and Matthew Fuller are client-focused and helpful.’ ‘The clerks are helpful and always have suitable barristers to assist, even at late notice.’
• ‘Albert Morgan and James Collier always go above and beyond.’
• ‘Dean Cunniff and Jonathan Cue are good to work with, personable and commercial in handling issues and happy to adopt a pragmatic approach when called for.’
• ‘Ben Harfield and James May are helpful, polite and understanding.’
• ‘Pump Court Chambers is a wonderful set, with very good client care, impressively led by chief clerk Tony Atkins.’