Matrix Chambers

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Matrix Chambers
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Headquarters Gray's Inn, London
No. of lawyersOver 90 practitioners
Major practice areasGeneral practice
Date founded2000 (2000)
Website www.matrixlaw.co.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Matrix Chambers is a barristers' chambers in Gray's Inn London, Brussels, and Geneva. Founded in April 2000 by 22 barristers from 7 different chambers, it now has over 90 independent and specialist lawyers who work throughout the UK and internationally. Matrix focuses on criminal law, constitutional law and human rights.

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History

Matrix was founded shortly before the implementation of the Human Rights Act in October 2000. The Independent reported that the chambers "was being set up with many of the leading and most high-profile barristers in the area of human rights – who had all been headhunted." [1]

Members include: Lord Brennan KC, Professor Conor Gearty, Lord Ken Macdonald KC, Clare Montgomery KC, Tim Owen KC, Philippe Sands KC, Hugh Tomlinson KC, Professor Takis Tridimas, Ben Silverstone, Helen Mountfield KC, and Alex Bailin KC. [2]

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References

  1. The Independent, May 2000
  2. "Members – Matrix Chambers". Matrix Chambers. Retrieved 24 May 2017.