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A word from our head of chambers:

‘The party line, as you might expect, is that we want to be recognised as one of the premier common law sets in the UK – and we do and we are. Quality and expertise are very important to us here.

But really, high standards are merely the threshold of entry for a set operating at our level. If you aren’t pursuing and delivering high-quality then you’re in the wrong game.

Beyond that, we want to be recognised as a set with an independent spirit and a conscience. There’s humility and humanity here – I like to think of it as ‘soul’ – and I think that makes us a little bit different.

There’s great longevity within our ranks and we’ve produced a disproportionate number of judges, which I think says something about us. People stay here because they like the work we attract, and they like coming to work because of the people we attract – a really lively, interesting and funny group of people.

In relaunching our website, we spoke to number of members of chambers about what they thought defined Pump Court and the words and phrases that kept recurring were less about what we do and much more about the way that we do it: ‘unstuffy’, ‘approachable’, ‘efficient’, collaborative’, ‘practical’, ‘progressive’ and ‘diverse’.

I’m very happy and very proud to be part of, and to lead, a set of exceptional people who use these words to describe themselves. And for the record, when I was asked how I would define Pump Court, I said, ‘Straight stories, told well’.”