HavelockChambers

How the papers arrive

Brief us, or find out if you can

Two lanes into these chambers. Solicitors deal with the clerk, as they always have. Direct-access clients start with three questions that spare everyone a wasted week. Both lanes end at the same desk.

Lane one · Solicitors

The clerk's desk

Ring with the area, the dates and the weight; leave with counsel's availability and a fee indication. Papers by post, DX or e-brief as you prefer, acknowledged in writing the same day they land.

Joseph Hartree, senior clerk, at the clerks' room desk

The clerks' room

Joseph Hartree

Senior clerk since 2012

Ring before you write. Two minutes with Joseph settles who you need, whether the dates work and what the fee will look like, before a single page is sent.

Direct line

+44 20 0000 0000

Clerks' room

Weekdays 8.30 to 6.30, hearings permitting

Chambers

6 Paper Court, Temple Row, London

Terms

Standard contractual terms, sent with the first acknowledgment.

Delivery

Post, DX or e-brief; the clerk confirms the safest route first.

Returns

If dates collapse, you hear it from us first, with a name proposed.

Lane two · Direct access

Three questions before anyone spends money

Not every matter can come to a barrister directly, and pretending otherwise wastes your week and ours. Answer honestly; the verdict is instant, it costs nothing, and nothing you click here is sent anywhere.

The matter triage

Is your case one we can take directly?

Three questions, thirty seconds. The same triage the clerk runs by phone, minus the hold music we refuse to have.

First: what kind of matter is it?

Prefer a person? The clerk runs this same triage by phone in five minutes.

Fees, in daylight

The fee is marked before the work begins

Representative direct-access figures, set out the way a court list would set them. Every figure is confirmed in writing by the clerk before any work starts; nothing on this page is a quote for your particular case.

First conference (fixed, one hour)$400
Written advice on the meritsfrom $1,800
Drafting: pleadings or key lettersfrom $1,200
Interlocutory hearing (per day)from $3,500
Trial or final hearing (per day)from $5,000

Figures in USD for the demo; the practice's own currency and rates replace them

Send the papers. We'll take it from here.

A call to agree the route, then the bundle by post, DX or e-brief. You will have a written acknowledgment with a name on it before the day ends.

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