Members of Chambers

8 New Square has 25 barristers, 8 of whom are silks. All of our barristers have experience in IP ranging from advising start-up business on their IP rights up to conducting the largest patent litigation.  

Barristers

• Mark Platts-Mills QC (Year of call: 1975 | Silk: 1995)
  Head of Chambers 
• Peter Prescott QC (Year of call: 1970 | Silk: 1990)
   
• John Baldwin QC (Year of call: 1977 | Silk: 1991)
   
• Martin Howe QC (Year of call: 1978 | Silk: 1996)
   
• Daniel Alexander QC (Year of call: 1988 | Silk: 2003)
   
• James Mellor QC (Year of call: 1986 | Silk: 2006)
   
• Richard Meade QC (Year of call: 1991 | Silk: 2008)
   
• Michael Tappin QC (Year of call: 1991 | Silk: 2009)
   
• George Hamer (Year of call: 1974)
   
• Fiona Clark (Year of call: 1982)
   
• Robert Onslow (Year of call: 1991)
   
• Adrian Speck (Year of call: 1993)
   

• Andrew Lykiardopoulos (Qualified: 1994)
   
• James St.Ville (Year of call: 1995)
   
• Charlotte May (Year of call: 1995)
   
• Tom Moody-Stuart (Year of call: 1995)
   
• Lindsay Lane (Year of call: 1996)
   
• James Abrahams (Year of call: 1997)
   
• Iona Berkeley (Year of call: 1999)
   
• Mark Chacksfield (Year of call: 1999)
   
• Henry Ward (Year of call: 2000)
   
• Jonathan Hill (Year of call: 2000)
   
• Jessie Bowhill (Year of call: 2003)
   
• James Whyte (Year of call: 2005)
   
• Isabel Jamal (Year of call: 2008)
   

Door Tenants

• Rt.Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob
• His Honour Michael Fysh QC SC
• Andrew Liao SC (Hong Kong)

• John Garnsey QC (New South Wales)
• Prof. William Cornish
• Roisin Higgins (Edinburgh)
• Winnie Tam SC (Hong Kong)