1 Crown Office Row was shortlisted for five awards at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2026

Welcome to 1 Crown Office Row. We are a leading barristers Chambers with 81 barristers, including 23 KCs, based in London and 59 barristers based in our annexe in Brighton. We are regularly rated as one of the top sets of Chambers in England with large numbers of our barristers listed in the Legal Directories as leaders in their field of practice. We are best known for best known for our expertise in public inquiries, clinical negligence, human rights and public law, but its practice spans the entire civil spectrum. Members also handle cases in personal injury, professional discipline, tax, immigration, environmental, sports and even animal law. Our barristers have been instructed in many of the largest and most sensitive public inquiry and public law matters in recent years, appearing in the Thirlwall, Undercover Policing, Nottingham, Southport, Grenfell Tower, Paterson, Covid-19, Infected Blood and Post Office Horizon IT inquiries. In Brighton, we practice in Family, Civil and Regulatory Criminal law from a centrally located annexe established 50 years ago with clients drawn from Brighton & Hove and a wide swathe of the South Coast and areas South of London. We run the widely acclaimed UK Human Rights Blog (http://ukhumanrightsblog.com) and legal podcast Law Pod UK. Our members also publish the Quarterly Medical Law Review (QMLR) available on our website. We also provide dispute resolution and mediation services in London and Brighton and several Brighton-based barristers also accept work in accordance with the Bar’s public access scheme i.e. receiving instructions direct from members of the public. Visit our website at www.1cor.com for further information.