Since 1926 Broadway House Chambers has provided Yorkshire with the highest levels of service in the fields of advocacy and legal advice. Today there are over 50 members offering expertise in crime and family law, employment and discrimination law, immigration, personal injury and environmental law.

Chambers have premises in Bank Street, Bradford and in Park Square, Leeds both situated two minutes walk from the respective Combined Court Centres. Each location provides first class support facilities and meetings rooms. There are video conferencing facilities at the Bradford premises. Additionally chambers is fully committed to the use of information technology and e-communication, including email and telephone-conferencing to promote the accessibility of its barristers to clients throughout the UK. Tenants have access to an excellent updated library (paper and electronic).

Members regularly practise throughout the north of England and often further afield. Please see the “Practice Teams” for details of the areas of work and the Barristers profiles for individual expertise. The maturity of Chambers is illustrated by the number of members who sit as Recorders and as Employment and Immigration Judges, Chairmen of the Mental Health Review Tribunals and Legal Advisors to the General Medical Council and Police Disciplinary Panels.

Chambers is committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of its work and has been awarded the Legal Services Commission’s ‘Quality Mark’.
Photography under threat: The shooting party’s over
The authorities have the power to confiscate your camera — or even arrest you — for daring to take a picture in public, mainly because of wide and misused powers in the Terrorism Act of 2000. ::: Times
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:53 -0000
COMMENT: Can Jon Venables have a fair trial?
Baroness Butler-Sloss, the judge who granted life-long anonymity to the killers of the two-year-old James Bulger, has warned that Jon Venables could be murdered if his new identity is revealed ::: Times
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:37 -0000
Presumption that children should not give evidence abolished by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has responded to a call from the Court of Appeal for a review of the rules on child witnesses in care proceedings by scrapping the presumption that children should not give oral evidence. ::: Solicitors Journal
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:21 -0000
Bid to scrap ancient right of entry laws, many still be in force
An ancient law allowing people on private land without a warrant if they are following a bee might still apply and is one of 1,208 powers of entry in dozens of different Acts of Parliament unearthed by a Tory peer who has launched a bid to curb the wide-ranging powers. ::: BBC
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:16:06 -0000
Law firms prepare to float on the stock market
City law firms are preparing to raise millions of pounds from external investors as the British legal market braces for its own version of Big Bang. ::: Times
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:15:45 -0000
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