David has been in practice for over 30 years and has considerable experience as a trial advocate appearing in some of the UK’s most important cases, both at first instance and appellate stages.​

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David has particular expertise in international anti-bribery and corruption law, commercial fraud and business crime. David was instructed as Queen’s Counsel by the UK Serious Fraud Office in the BAE Systems inquiry and acted throughout the entirety of the investigation. He is familiar with the FCPA and has worked with the US Department of Justice.​

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Over the past 10 years his international practice has developed to include advising with regard to litigation in administrative proceedings before the Multi- Lateral Development Banks as well as instructions to advising those institutions as to the structure of their investigatory and administrative process. He has written many articles and oc-authored "Smith - The Law of Theft with Professor David Ormerod QC (Oxford University Press) and spoken in the UK and abroad concerning international criminal law and justice.

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David is joint Managing Director of the law firm Ellerman Limited.

Dr. Richard Pratt - I qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2006, having previously worked as a Secondary school Teacher and Specialist Teacher for Children with Visual Impairment. My main specialism has been in the field of Parent-Infant Mental Health where I have carried out a number of leadership roles including as Clinical Lead for the Parent Infant Mental Health Attachment Team (PIMHAT), a therapeutic service which worked with families and professionals where there were safeguarding concerns. I have some experience writing court reports relating to the care needs of children and parenting capacity.

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Most of my current clinical work is with adolescents and their families within the context of a special school. My practice is informed by Attachment and Psychoanalytic Theory and I have training in specialist approaches such as Circle of Security Parenting. 

Alongside my clinical work, I am a lecturer and course tutor on the Doctoral Course for Clinical Psychology at the University of Essex. 

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Alongside my clinical work, I am a lecturer and course tutor on the Doctoral Course for Clinical Psychology at the University of Essex. I am interested in organisational dynamics and I am a member of the Association for Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings (APPCIOS) which enables me to practice as a Psychodynamic Organisational Therapist. I have published a number of articles mainly focusing upon the delivery of Parent Infant Mental Health Services.    

Mackenna and Imogen study law at Kings College London, one of the top universities in the United Kingdom.

Nora Müller is Senior Counsel in the World Bank’s Legal Vice Presidency, where she advises on integrity and compliance matters, sanctions and debarment, litigation, and privileges and immunities. She is licensed to practice as a solicitor in the UK and prior to joining the World Bank she worked at Linklaters LLP in London. She received her LL.B and LL.M from the University of Maastricht and holds an LL.M from the University of Cambridge.

Vanessa is a Solicitor in the Commercial Crime team at Fieldfisher LLP. She advises clients who are subject to investigations by governmental agencies and regulatory bodies, including the Serious Fraud Office, into allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption. She qualified as a Solicitor in September 2021 via the SRA's Equivalent Means route. Vanessa attended the University of Law, where she completed her LL.B degree and LL.M LPC course.

Dilan is a barrister at Ellerman. She qualified as a barrister following pupillage at Fulcrum Chambers, gaining experience in both domestic and international corporate investigations and defence, bribery and corruption, and compliance matters. During pupillage, Dilan undertook her second six at a leading general crime and financial crime Chambers, in which she further gained advocacy experience representing individuals before the Magistrates Court and the Crown Court. Dilan completed the LLB with Transnational Legal Studies course at King’s College London, followed by the BPTC at BPP. 

Matt is a solicitor at a major London law firm. He advises clients on all aspects of family law including nuptial agreements, relationship breakdown and divorce, financial disputes and private children law. Matt has experience of complicated and high value financial cases, including those involving valuable and complex asset bases (such as family businesses and trusts) and those with an international dimension. Matt works with clients, together with other members of the team, to resolve matters by agreement but litigates where required. He has successfully acted for clients whose ex-partners have sought to conceal their assets or dissipate their wealth.

Matt has a particular interest in disputes relating to children and acts on a wide range of matters such as general living arrangements, relocation, overseas travel, choice of school and change of surname. Matt has acted in a number of cases involving serious safeguarding risks including allegations of domestic abuse, drug/alcohol abuse and parental alienation.

David Ormerod was called to the Bar in 2002 (Middle Temple). He is currently a Deputy High Court Judge, a Professor of Criminal Justice, Director of the Criminal Law Centre and joint Director of the Judicial Institute at UCL as well as a long standing lecturer on criminal law at the Judicial College.

He served as Law Commissioner for England and Wales for almost 10 years and his observations and analysis are frequently cited with approval in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division and the Supreme Court.

At the Bar he was instructed in various SFO and HMRC Prosecution Office fraud cases (both for the defence and the prosecution) including a junior defence brief in the Court of Appeal in the Pharmaceuticals case concerning cartels and conspiracy to defraud. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel (Honoris Causa) in 2013.

David is a barrister of over 35 years experience and has appeared in many major criminal law trials over that time. He is known as one of our finest advocates. David has also acted as legal adviser to a number of television drama series, such as Kavanagh QC, The Brief, Judge John Deed, Wing and a Prayer and Incognito (film) as well as advising in factual programmes such as Hypthotheticals in which he also appeared as a panellist. He was the legal adviser to The Verdict (2006) and The Trial (2017) in which real juries, together with actual barristers and judges, tried two fictional cases to explore the workings of the jury system.

David Claxton is a barrister practising in criminal and regulatory work. His expertise covers - Economic and Business Crime (fraud, bribery, money laundering, sanctions, insolvency, Regulatory Crime (including Health & Safety and Fire Safety), General Crime, Asset Forfeiture (civil and criminal), Appellate Work and Extradition. He has acted in a number of important Serious Fraud Office prosecutions and has a wealth of experience in general crime.

Mrs Justice McGowan sits in the High Court of Justice and as such is one of the most senior judges in England and Wales. She had a very successful career as a barrister.

She was appointed to the rank of Queen's Counsel and appeared in some of the most important criminal trials litigated in the criminal courts in recent years. As a High Court Judge, Mrs Justice McGowan presides over both criminal and civil trials.

She is a vocal supporter of greater diversity at the Bar and in the judiciary and is highly respected by the lawyers who appear before her.

Dr. Stephen Terrett is the director of studies and senior lecturer at the British Law Centre, which was set up in 1992 as a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Warsaw. He has worked inter alia for Cambridge University, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, the Polish National School for Judges and Prosecutors, as well as organising and delivering a number of EU and UN co-funded projects to train lawyers and judges, in his capacity as chairman of an educational charity. He is a qualified advocate and is a member of the ORA in Warsaw and an active member of its international relations committee. He has worked at a leading Polish law firm since 2011, during which time he has advised clients on numerous commercial negotiations, transactions, disputes and settlements. He advises on contract and commercial law, IP law, EU law and litigation/arbitration.

The Rt Hon. Sir Robin Jacob is the Hugh Laddie Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law, at University College London.

Sir Robin read Natural Sciences at Trinity College Cambridge and then simultaneously read for the Bar (1965) and an LLB from the LSE.   He is an Arbitrator, Mediator, Expert Witness and Expert Determiner and IP advisor at 8 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn. He practiced from 1967.  He was IP Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and all Government departments, 1975-81.  He was appointed QC in 1981 and to the Bench in 1993.  He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2003.  He retired in May 2011 to take up his current appointment. 

He is Hon. Fellow of the LSE, and St Peter’s College, Oxford., Hon. President of the UK branch of the Licensing Executive Society and of the Association of Law Teachers. He was Treasurer of Grays Inn (2007) and a Governor of the LSE (1988-2017).  MIP awarded the Outstanding Achievement in IP 2012. He has written extensively on all forms of IP.   He remains President of the Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (the association of European IP, particularly patent, judges).

Dr Danny Taggart is a Clinical and Academic Psychologist who works at the University of Essex and the Independent inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. He has a particular interest in the impacts of trauma, and how survivors of child sexual abuse and other traumatic injuries can best be supported to achieve justice and healing.

Dr. Stephen Terrett is the director of studies and senior lecturer at the British Law Centre, which was set up in 1992 as a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge and Warsaw. He has worked inter alia for Cambridge University, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, the Polish National School for Judges and Prosecutors, as well as organising and delivering a number of EU and UN co-funded projects to train lawyers and judges, in his capacity as chairman of an educational charity. He is a qualified advocate and is a member of the ORA in Warsaw and an active member of its international relations committee. He has worked at a leading Polish law firm since 2011, during which time he has advised clients on numerous commercial negotiations, transactions, disputes and settlements. He advises on contract and commercial law, IP law, EU law and litigation/arbitration.

Gillian was named in The Hot 100 list 2021, produced by The Lawyer Magazine. She won Crime Silk of the year at Legal 500’s UK awards 2020. Highly Commended in the Women-in-Law category at the British Legal Awards 2019, Gillian was also and cited as a Leading Silk across Financial Crime, Business and Regulatory Crime (including global investigations), Private Prosecutions, as well as General Crime by Chambers UK, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.

Gillian has developed a high-profile practice with a specialisation in financial and corporate   

crime, acting on behalf of individuals, corporate clients, and the prosecution – many of her cases are well-known with a global reach. Gillian also advises companies on compliance issues, internal investigations, and strategically following commencement of investigations by the SFO, FCA and other regulatory bodies. Her practice is such that she has acquired specialist knowledge of restraint and confiscation, the obtaining of material from foreign jurisdictions, and an understanding and analysis of complex bank movements and offshore transactions. Gillian is also noted for her significant expertise in Private Prosecutions.

Gillian also regularly defends in cases involving murder/manslaughter, organised crime, misconduct in public office (including deaths in custody, fraud, and sexual misconduct), death by dangerous driving and serious sexual offences having developed specialist expertise in trials involving vulnerable witnesses.

Gillian was appointed joint Head of Chambers in 2018. Appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 2012, Serious Sexual Offences ticket 2016, and appointed to sit at the Central Criminal Court 2018.

Gillian was named in The Hot 100 list 2021, produced by The Lawyer Magazine. She won Crime Silk of the year at Legal 500’s UK awards 2020. Highly Commended in the Women-in-Law category at the British Legal Awards 2019, Gillian was also and cited as a Leading Silk across Financial Crime, Business and Regulatory Crime (including global investigations), Private Prosecutions, as well as General Crime by Chambers UK, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.

Gillian has developed a high-profile practice with a specialisation in financial and corporate   

crime, acting on behalf of individuals, corporate clients, and the prosecution – many of her cases are well-known with a global reach. Gillian also advises companies on compliance issues, internal investigations, and strategically following commencement of investigations by the SFO, FCA and other regulatory bodies. Her practice is such that she has acquired specialist knowledge of restraint and confiscation, the obtaining of material from foreign jurisdictions, and an understanding and analysis of complex bank movements and offshore transactions. Gillian is also noted for her significant expertise in Private Prosecutions.

Gillian also regularly defends in cases involving murder/manslaughter, organised crime, misconduct in public office (including deaths in custody, fraud, and sexual misconduct), death by dangerous driving and serious sexual offences having developed specialist expertise in trials involving vulnerable witnesses.

Gillian was appointed joint Head of Chambers in 2018. Appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 2012, Serious Sexual Offences ticket 2016, and appointed to sit at the Central Criminal Court 2018.

The Rt Hon. Sir Robin Jacob is the Hugh Laddie Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law, at University College London.

Sir Robin read Natural Sciences at Trinity College Cambridge and then simultaneously read for the Bar (1965) and an LLB from the LSE.   He is an Arbitrator, Mediator, Expert Witness and Expert Determiner and IP advisor at 8 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn. He practiced from 1967.  He was IP Junior Counsel for the Comptroller of Patents and all Government departments, 1975-81.  He was appointed QC in 1981 and to the Bench in 1993.  He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2003.  He retired in May 2011 to take up his current appointment. 

He is Hon. Fellow of the LSE, and St Peter’s College, Oxford., Hon. President of the UK branch of the Licensing Executive Society and of the Association of Law Teachers. He was Treasurer of Grays Inn (2007) and a Governor of the LSE (1988-2017).  MIP awarded the Outstanding Achievement in IP 2012. He has written extensively on all forms of IP.   He remains President of the Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (the association of European IP, particularly patent, judges).

Jonathan Walker is a partner at the law firm Hamel Smith and Co practising in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. He is a leading litigator practising mainly in civil/commercial law as well as tax disputes and personal injury. He has significant experience of acting in major international arbitral disputes.