Expert Regulatory & Criminal Barristers

Mayfair Place is a boutique chambers of highly respected regulatory and criminal experts, each of whom is recognised for their exceptional track record and is an acknowledged authority in their specialist fields.

The focused nature of the chambers ensures all members are distinguished by their excellence at the highest levels of criminal and regulatory legal practice. They are regularly retained at the earliest stage of investigations, to bring deep experience and the utmost discretion to the most sensitive cases, and provide detailed strategic advice throughout.

Offering a unique and modern approach to the instruction of counsel, Mayfair Place is at the forefront of modern legal excellence.

We specialise in complex and high-profile health and safety matters, representing corporate and individual clients across all industries in the full range of cases arising out of fatal and non-fatal incidents, and appeals against improvement and prohibition notices. Our expertise extends to fire safety and the Fire Safety Order, including prosecutions, notice appeals, and where technical measures are referred for determination by the Secretary of State
Our expertise encompasses a broad range of environmental law matters with particular focus on the water and power industries, alleged breaches of environmental permits and Environment Agency prosecutions.
We are experienced in dealing with a wide range of professional discipline cases concentrating on the medical, dental, health, veterinary, and social care sectors.
Together we have enormous experience acting in a wide range of inquests, including those relating to deaths in workplace and medical settings, and high-profile public and statutory inquiries. We are very frequently engaged to advise companies and individuals at the earliest stage of an investigation, throughout the inquest, and to the conclusion of any subsequent criminal, regulatory and disciplinary proceedings.
We are specialist criminal advocates who advise and act in complex and serious cases across the full spectrum of criminal law, including homicide, serious and organised crime, and sexual offences.
We have a broad experience in advising companies and individual company directors in relation to corporate governance and internal investigations arrangements and following reputational crises. We advise and act for companies and individuals charged with serious fraud and financial crime offences, advising pre-charge and acting through to the conclusion of criminal proceedings.
Our expertise incorporates investigations and prosecutions of health and social care providers by the CQC and HSE, inquests where allegations of deficient care arise, and advice and representation of individual medical practitioners facing criminal or regulatory proceedings.
Our barristers have great experience in the most high profile work-related and public safety related manslaughter investigations and prosecutions. We are routinely instructed in corporate and gross negligence manslaughter investigations and are able to combine our singular expertise in both health and safety and criminal law to these complex and high-profile cases.