Tenancy Applications

Lincoln House Chambers is recruiting across a number of its core practice areas.

Lincoln House is a long-established set which enjoys enviable success and an outstanding reputation across a variety of practice areas. Both the members of Chambers and the highly proactive, efficient clerking team regularly feature in the top-rankings of Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Directories.  Many of our members are also appointed to specialist counsel panels and hold part time judicial appointments.

Applications are invited from exceptional candidates, especially in the following practice areas:

Crime

“Lincoln House Chambers is praised as ‘a set with a deserved reputation as being the elite criminal set in the North West with real quality amongst its members’, who handle a wide variety of criminal law matters, from road traffic offences, sexual offences, violence, and drug offences, to financial crime and fraud.” Legal 500 2024

Defence – We invite applications from practitioners of all seniority levels, including 3rd six pupils.

Prosecution – We invite applications from practitioners who are appointed to the CPS General Crime Prosecuting Panel, The RASSO Panel, The Serious Crime and The Terrorism Panel.

Regulatory

‘Lincoln House Chambers has a breadth of excellent regulatory counsel with a vast range of experiences; it has long been established as a go-to set.’ Chambers & Partners 2024

We invite applications from all practitioners who have a background in regulatory areas. In particular, we welcome applications from individuals with a particular interest (which may include specialist counsel panel membership) in Health & Safety, Trading Standards, Environmental and Professional Disciplinary.

Inquests & Public Inquiries

“Lincoln House Chambers offers an impressive depth of expertise in the field of inquiries and inquests. Several of its members have appeared in the Manchester Arena and Infected Blood inquiries as well as the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, among other matters of major importance. The barristers are frequently sought out to provide expert representation to a wide range of interested persons, spanning government departments, professional bodies, healthcare sector clients and police forces, and to act as counsel to the inquest or inquiry.” Chambers & Partners 2024

We invite applications from all practitioners who have a background in Inquest & Public Inquiry areas.

Applications

Lincoln House Chambers is committed to Equality and Diversity at the bar. Our Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request. We support the Bar Council in working to create a profession representative of all and for all. We welcome applications from all persons and value diversity in the workplace. We encourage applications from individuals who are under represented at the bar.

Chambers offers its members an outstanding service at one of the most competitive rates nationally with no fixed costs.

Chambers will treat all applications in the strictest confidence.

Please be aware that offers of tenancy may be made on a probationary basis.

Please send applications by way of CV and covering letter to Director of Clerking, David Wright, at dwright@lincolnhousechambers.com or call on 0161 832 5701 for further information or should you wish to request that any reasonable adjustment be made in relation to your application.

The members of Lincoln House Chambers are fully aware of the Bar Council’s Code of Conduct and fully comply with the Bar Standards Board Equality and Diversity Code.