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barristers

• Patrick Harrington KC
• Paul Lewis KC
• Michael Jones KC
• Charles Parsley
• *David Phillips KC
• Jane Crowley KC
• Paul Hartley-Davies
• *Richard Clayton KC
• James Tillyard KC
• Lloyd Williams KC
• *Ieuan Rees
• *Ignatius Hughes KC
• *Mark Heywood KC
• Rhodri Williams KC
• *Cathryn McGahey KC
• Gareth Jonathan-Jones
• Michelle Withers
• Catherine Heyworth KC
• Gareth Jones
• Catrin John
• Stephen Thomas
• Mark Cotter KC
• *Stefano Nuvoloni KC
• Caroline Rees KC
• *Maria Hancock
• *Rhys Taylor
• Andrew Jones KC
• David Hughes
• Harriet Edmondson
• *Sharon Love
• Colin Douglas
• *Huw Davies
• Kevin Seal
• Christian Jowett
• Nigel Fryer
• Ben Davies
• *David Sharpe KC
• Megan Hartson
• Byron Broadstock
• Katy Morgan
• Jeffrey Jones
• Claire Williams
• Andrew Joseph
• Rebecca Harrington
• Luke Garrett
• Mikhael Puar
• Julia Cox
• *Sian Reeves
• Christian J Howells
• Kalpna Keshra
• *Kirsten Heaven
• Rhys Evans
• Rhian Jones
• Nathan Jones
• Hannah Ahmadi
• David Pinnell
• Emma Harris
• Samuel Shepherd
• Gareth Duncan
• Paul Hewitt
• Ffion Tomos
• Abla O’Callaghan
• Rhodri Jones
• Peter Donnison
• Joshua Scouller
• Lisa McCormick
• Daniel Jones
• Nia Gowman
• Sam Aynsley
• Oliver Harris
• Laura Shepherd
• Tabitha Walker
• Pamela Kaiga
• Melissa Jones
• William Bebb
• Lowri Patterson
• Joseph Murphy
• David Crowley
• David Richards
• Solomon Hartley
• Hywel Evans
• Neil Rees
• Adriana Rodriguez
• Lewis Harrison
• Sophie Keegan
• Cat Jones
• Talia Keskin
• Jac Brown
• Alice Sykes
• Rose Glanville
• Dominie Patel
• Hannah Meredith-Jones
• Charles Archer

Clerks

• Phillip Griffiths
• Sarah Worman
• Kayleigh Jefferies
• Tony Naylon
• Sadie Davies
• Amy Gould
• Emma Haines
• James Dowse
• Laura Macpherson
• Ethan Cross
• Ellie Pullan
• Dan Fuller
• Katy Jackson

Administration Team

• Julie Robinson
• Megan Evans
• Anna Kanapilly

Practice areas

• Sports Law
• Regulatory
• Actions Against the Police and Public Authorities
• Personal Injury
• Court of Protection, Mental Health, Vulnerable Adults & Community Care
• Planning & Environment
• Immigration & Asylum
• Family & Child Care
• Family Dispute Resolution
• Employment
• Education
• Crime
• Cohabitee & Matrimonial Finance
• Business, Property & Chancery
• Public & Administrative Law
• Clinical Negligence
• Inquests & Inquiries
• Professional Discipline
• Mediation

News

• Carl Harrison and Kayleigh Jefferies rehearsing parts for mock trial
• Pensions & Prosecco at the Park Plaza, Cardiff - 11th March.
• Which team got a thrashing at last week’s 5-a-side match, Blake Morgan or us ….
• Lloyd Williams QC and Ben Davies obtain £8.2 million settlement in paraplegic case for New Law
• David Hughes obtains apology for Gibraltar lawyer
• £500 raised for the Judicial Review proceedings against proposals for Duty Solicitor Contracts
• Yesterday’s Mesothelioma Matters 2 study day was a huge success …
• National marketing & business development specialist appointed to support ‘visionary’ chambers
• Nathan Jones appointed as a Legal Arbitrator to sit on the Sport Resolutions Panel
• Chambers welcomes experienced crime, regulatory & immigration specialist as a new member
• Equal marriage after the US decision ...
• 350 miles in 4 days ...Joe completes London - Paris cycle for Headway Cardiff
• Success comes in threes: Triple national award shortlistings for Thirty Park Place
• David Hughes runs 50 miles in 24 hours for charity Headway
• Voting now open for the Family Law Awards 2015. We’d be delighted if you would support us!
• Unrivalled growth in Wales with three new pupil tenants for 30 Park Place
• Family practitioners urged to ‘get ahead of the game’ in advance of new legislation.
• Fundraising night for JR proceedings against proposals for Duty Solicitor Contracts
• 30 Park Place at the APIL Silver anniversary conference
• The Public Law Project WALES Conference - Access to Justice
• HEADWAY CARDIFF BRAIN INJURY CONFERENCE
• Wales Commercial Law Association Press Regulation Debate – This Friday 27th March 2015
• Christian Howells & Joe Al-Khayat to cycle from London to Paris to raise money for Headway Cardiff
• How many 9km laps could you run in 24 hours …?!
• Rhys Taylor named Commentator of the Year 2015 at Family Law Awards
• Chambers leads Bar Guide 2016 Band 1 rankings in Wales.
• Contract issues: interpreting the General Dental Services Contract
• We are recruiting counsel with varied family experience to support our loyal client base
• Ruth Henke QC appointed to Wales’ new National Independent Safeguarding Board
• 30 Park Place Under 5s: Case Management Excellence
• Family@30 in ‘first case of its kind’
• 30PP features in Modern Law Regional Focus
• Overruling a parent’s right to name their child
• Local company fined £200,000 for breach of Health and Safety regulations
• Nathan Jones appointed Vice Chairman of the Football Association of Wales National Safeguarding Panel
• Legal 500 United Kingdom 2016
• MW (Nationality: Art 4 QD; Duty to substantiate) [2016] UKUT 453
• Trafficking Gang
• More nominations for the Family Team
• Circuit Judge Appointment: HHJ Lloyd-Clarke
• Chambers and Partners - BAND 1 Rankings
• Family Team Nominated for Family Law Regional Chambers of the Year Award for Fourth Year Running
• Circuit Judge Appointment: HHJ Harrison
• Nathan Jones appointed Chairman of The Football Association of Wales Disciplinary Appeals Panel.
• Carl Harrison successfully prosecutes in tragedy where farmer’s cows trample walker to death.
• Best wishes to HHJ Harrison as he embarks on his next adventure ...
• Christmas Opening Times 2016
• Immigration Talks
• Jane Crowley QC member of Chartered institute of Arbitrators and IFLA
• Mark Cotter QC Sworn in
• Mr Mather-Lees QC Defends Police Detention Officer
• SCMA Accredited Mediators
• Peter Donnison Completes London Marathon
• Public Law Project Wales Conference
• Christian J Howells to appear in Supreme Court
• Mather-Lees QC | Whelan
• ‘Crash for Cash’ – Part Two.
• Unlawful Killing of Cerys Yemm
• Rhys Evans – £2 Million estate
• Christian J Howells successful in social care judicial review
• contaminated blood scandal
• Christian Jowett | UKELA
• Christian J Howells appointed to Welsh Government Panel of Approved Advocates
• The National Independent Safeguarding Board of which Miss Ruth Henke QC is a member has launched it’s new website.
• Success comes in threes: Triple national award shortlistings for 30 Park Place
• New Tenants, Oliver Harris and Laura Shepherd, join 30 Park Place
• Chambers welcomes Kirsten Heaven
• Chambers UK Bar 2018 Rankings
• Chambers welcomes Adem Muzaffer
• Legal 500 2018 Awards
• Caroline Rees to be appointed Queen’s Counsel
• Striking the ‘best interests’ balance
• Family Team Update
• Andrew Jones leads prosecution team with Ffion Tomos
• Carl Harrison appointed Recorder
• The Members of 30 Park Place stand with the Criminal Bar Association
• Nathan Jones appointed to the Sport Resolutions’ Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators
• Appointments to Attorney General’s regional civil panel
• Introduction of NIPT testing in Wales
• Andrew Jones leads Ffion Tomos in Operation Zeus
• Miss Ruth Henke QC has been appointed a Deputy High Court Judge.
• Infected Blood Inquiry
• Caroline Rees QC in Successful Prosecution
• Andrew Jones leads Ffion Tomos in Operation Finch
• Andrew Jones instructed to prosecute Operation Jackdaw
• Supreme Court overturns Court of Appeal
• Conner Marshall: Family want answers over son’s murder
• Mark Cotter Q.C. secures murder acquittal following six week trial at the Old Bailey
• Operation Zeus: All defendants convicted
• Operation Zeus: Drugs gang jailed for 173 years
• Christmas & New Year Opening Hours
• Mark Cotter Q.C secures double conviction in murder trial
• District Judge Adem Muzaffer
• Kirsten Heaven appointed Fee Paid Judge
• Mark Cotter Q.C. secures another murder acquittal
• Christian Jowett successfully prosecutes planning trial
• Wales Legal Awards
• Family Law Team of the Year
• Failure by Social Services
• Success before RCVS Discipliary Committee
• Police and council found to have acted unlawfully in sheep uplift.
• Operation Finch - Defendants convicted after 5 week trial
• Andrew Jones and Ffion Tomos instructed to prosecute Operation Jackdaw 2
• Deputy District Judge Appointments
• New tenant Hywel Evans
• Regulatory A-List news
• Infected Blood Inquiry
• Sentencing concludes in Operation Finch
• Christian Jowett chairs UK Environmental Law Association Seminar on Welsh Government’s Consultation on Environmental Principles and Governance in Wales
• Dafydd Enoch QC joins 30 Park Place
• Mark Cotter Q.C. successfully defends JLS frontman Oritsé Williams
• Andrew Jones and Ffion Tomos secure convictions in Operation Jackdaw
• Infected Blood Inquiry
• Nathan Jones advises Welsh Boxing
• 3 New Recorders in 3 Jurisdictions for 30 Park Place
• 30 Park Place Welcomes 4 New Tenants
• Ffion Jones, 12, ‘would have lived if 999 call was escalated’
• Annette Hewins: No systemic failures before patient’s death
• Doctor tells inquest he ‘wishes he had ordered an x-ray’
• Chambers’ Regulatory Group launches at an event next Thursday (17/10).
• Mark Cotter Q.C. secures manslaughter conviction following trial based on circumstantial evidence
• Ruth Henke QC successfully defends two respondents in matter involving 25 children
• Andrew Jones & Ffion Tomos conclude sentencing in £16.85 million drugs conspiracy
• Andrew Jones successfully prosecutes drug dealer involved in £1m cocaine conspiracy
• Andrew Jones & Ffion Tomos prosecute Operation Tide
• Legal 500 Awards 2020
• Christmas & New Year Opening Times
• 4 New Tenants join 30 Park Place
• Kirsten Heaven, 30 Park Place represents family of murdered teenager Conner Marshall at 10 day inquest
• Andrew Jones instructed to prosecute Operation Vermont
• Two new appointments to the Attorney General’s Regional Panel
• Lecture for Lincoln’s Inn Students
• IMPORTANT NOTICE – CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) Update
• COVID-19 Update
• COVID-19 Update
• Coronavirus and care and support in Wales
• Free Webinar: The Coronavirus Act 2020 & Implications In Wales
• Amendments to Mental Health Act 1983 made under Coronavirus Act 2020
• Emiliano Sala Inquest
• The old law on the Execution of Wills
• The President’s Guidance for the Family Courts: At A Glance
• Deputy District Judge Appointments
• Fee Paid Judge Appointments
• Inquests and inquiries in the Covid-19 era
• COVID-19 Update 6th July
• Rhodri Williams QC and Nia Gowman successful in landmark Welsh-language judicial review case
• Andrew Jones and Ffion Tomos successful in hitman prosecution.
• David Hughes is now a member of the Executive Committee of Liberty, the well-known human rights NGO.
• Ruth Henke QC Podcast with Family Law Week
• CoP Day 2020 Donation & Recording
• Christmas and New Year Opening Times
• Elizabeth McGahey
• Success for man who lost part of his fingers in police station.
• “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life” – Dolly Parton
• Melissa Jones and Sophie Kenny instructed in Brithdir Care Home inquests.
• Judicial review of the UK Internal Market Act 2020
• Ruth Henke KC successfully appeals findings of sexual abuse
• Four Jurisdictions Family Law Conference
• Welsh Government Panel Counsel
• David Hughes elected chair of the WCLA
• Christian Jowett reappointed
• Success for David Hughes in unlawful arrest case
• Jurisdiction in the family courts
• First Operation Jasmine inquests conclude
• Nathan Jones reappointed
• Easter Hours
• New Tenant
• Public Law Project - Wales Conference
• Christian Jowett has joined LexisNexis PSL’s panel of experts
• Operation Jasmine
• Christian Howells & Nia Gowman instructed in Velindre legal challenge
• Supreme Court hears UNCRC (Scotland) Bill reference – Christian J Howells instructed on behalf of the Counsel General for Wales
• David Hughes re-elected to Liberty’s Executive Committee
• Christian Jowett re-elected
• Josh Scouller secures acquittal in historic sexual assault case
• Chambers UK Bar Awards 2021
• Andrew Jones instructed to prosecute in 7 defendant murder investigation
• Andrew Jones leads Anna Pope in County Lines drugs prosecution
• Andrew Jones instructed to prosecute Operation Blue Deer
• Andrew Jones successfully prosecutes Encrochat case Operation Capote
• #10000BlackInterns Scheme
• Freedom of religion: can protection against persecution justify the infringement of the right to equality?
• Christian J Howells in significant Supreme Court case on the Devolution Settlement
• Andrew Jones successfully prosecutes Encrochat case Operation Firgrove
• Family Justice Council Debate
• Malcolm Bishop KC is delighted and excited to be a part of the GREAT Legal Services Trade Mission to the UAE.
• Welsh Education Law Conference 2021 Recordings
• Congratulations to Catherine Heyworth
• Kirsten Heaven appointed Assistant Coroner for Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot
• Deputy District Judge Appointment
• Recorder Appointments
• High Court says pilot’s video footage of Shoreham air crash cannot be used in coroner’s inquests
• Welsh Court Judgment protects Campaigners from Legal Costs in Environmental cases
• International Women’s Day
• Cardiff City Council found in contempt of court
• 30 Park Place win Chambers of the Year at Wales Legal Awards 2022
• Administrative Court quashes Coroner’s decision on article 2 ECHR
• New tenants
• UKELA Conference 2022
• David Hughes in tasering case.
• Gareth Jones in contentious probate claim in High Court
• Caroline Rees KC Lawyer of the Week
• Legal 500 Awards 2022
• Cyber Secure
• Health Board fined £850,000
• New Law Journal - Malcolm Bishop KC
• In memoriam: Queen Elizabeth II
• Deputy District Judge
• 3 New Tenants
• 30 Park Place wish to congratulate Caroline Rees KC as the next Leader of The Wales & Chester Circuit from January 2023
• London Borough of Croydon’s Decision on Direct Payments is unlawful
• Inquest into the Shoreham Airshow Disaster set to begin – seven years after the crash
• Andrew Jones successfully prosecutes in Operation Cruz
• Christmas & New Year Opening Hours
• Gleision: Families granted full inquest into men’s mining deaths
• Technical difficulties
• Caroline Rees KC and Carl Harrison successfully prosecute complex and high-profile gross negligence manslaughter
• Cyber Secure
• First Televised Sentence
• Telephone Issues 18/4
• Carl Harrison successfully challenges the jurisdiction of the High Court
• Attorney General & Solicitor General Visit
• In memory of Meirion Davies
• The COVID inquiry opening
• 30 Park Place is delighted to announce the addition of five new members.
• 30 Park Place and Lloyd Williams KC Shortlisted for Prestigious Legal 500 Awards 2023
• Judgment: Pembrokeshire v James
• Catherine Heyworth KC elected as a Bencher of The Inner Temple
• Cyber Essentials Plus Certification 2023
• New Circuit Judge
• Ruth Henke KC, Head of Chambers, who will be taking on the role of High Court Judge in the Family Division
• New Circuit Judge
• Andrew Jones prosecutes nurse who killed 82 year old man by careless driving whilst unfit through drink
• Defendants can also be dishonest in personal injury matters, resulting in the disapplication of fixed costs after trial
• New Head of Chambers
• Hospital made series of mistakes before premature baby’s death
• Christmas & New Year Opening Hours 2023
• Christian J Howells in Ffos-y-fran mine challenge
• Covid Inquiry Updates
• A health board has been fined £200,000 after a woman killed herself on one of its mental health wards.
• 30 Park Place is delighted to announce that Fraud Specialist Emma Harris has joined Chambers
• Andrew Jones to be appointed King’s Counsel
• David Hughes, Melissa Jones and Cat Jones instructed in Christopher Kapessa inquest
• New Law Journal - Malcolm Bishop KC
• JURISDICTIONS FAMILY LAW CONFERENCE 2024 COMES TO WALES FOR THE FIRST TIME
• Joint Settlement Success for Sam Aynsley in Cyclist’s Personal Injury Claim
• 30 Park Place makes legal sector compliance history with LOCS:23 Certification
• Chair of the Bar Visit
• 30 Park Place celebrates Legal 500 awards shortlist
• Cyber Essentials Plus Certification 2024
• Lord Chief Justice and President of the Land Court of the Kingdom of Tonga
• New Members
• R (CPS) v Northamptonshire Magistrates’ Court and others [2024] EWHC 2324 (Admin)
• ICLR Pupillage Award
• Christian Howells successful in social services judicial review
• Success in the Court of Appeal in tasering case
• R (CPS) v Northamptonshire Magistrates’ Court and others [2024] EWHC 2860 (Admin)
• Surgeon cleared of possessing child abuse images
• Andrew Jones KC & Ffion Tomos successfully prosecute single punch case resulting in a murder conviction.
• Andrew Jones KC, successfully defended his client, Lester Ramsay, in a complex murder trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
• Operation Grace
• The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have launched a new campaign called the Ripple Effect campaign
• Success in data protection claim over recall
• City Hospice
• Acquittals obtained in Operation Mayland for 30 Park Place members Nigel Fryer, Josh Scouller and Emma Harris
• List of Specialist Regulatory Advocates
• Claims for diminution in value to a dwelling in neighbour disputes – not something to be pleaded lightly
• Laura Shepherd Successful in Landmark Case
• Dan Jones sucessfully prosecutes case of historic child sexual abuse
• Nigel Fryer defends NHS Heath Board against HSE
• Pro-Bono Recognition List 2025
• 30 Park Place Shortlisted for Legal Services Transformation of the Year
• Christian Jowett prosecutes animal cruelty and welfare offences
• Andrew Jones KC successfully secures murder conviction
• Christian J Howells successful in Court of Appeal ALN case
• We are thrilled to announce that we have won the prestigious Legal Services Transformation Award at the Legal News Wales Awards!
• Dean Mears Jailed for Life for Brutal Murder of Rhyl Grandmother
• Senior Coroner for Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire has suspended an inquest and notified the Director of Public Prosecutions
• LAA CCMS Outage – Chambers’ Commitment to Supporting Solicitors and Counsel
• Andrew Jones KC Secures Manslaughter Verdict