ABOUT NORMANTON CHAMBERS What’s in a name? For us, everything. Until now there has not been a barristers’ chambers named after a woman. One hundred years after Helena Normanton joined Middle Temple, the first woman to join an Inn of Court, we wanted to recognise those first 100 years and everything that Helena Normanton stood for in her professional and personal life: equality, excellence, and equity. Thus we became Normanton Chambers, a group of (initially) 20 barristers, clerks, and colleagues committed to the highest standards in client care, diversity, advising and advocacy: wholly motivated by the name we have adopted and all that it should represent. Joint Heads, Jonathan Dingle FRSA and Andrea Barnes, are joined by long-standing friends who share the desire to build a national set of chambers on the foundations of equality, excellence, and equity, with the most modern culture and means of working, diversity and inclusivity. We embrace change but keep old-fashioned virtues: we feel; empathise; care; and seek to find out what our solicitors and lay clients really want, and need. We go the extra mile. We are based opposite the RCJ in London and our barristers are based and travel around the country. Many have backgrounds in careers other than the Bar, including the Armed Forces, senior public service, financial and commercial, academia, as well as several who practised as solicitors. We bring this experience to our clients in all our areas of civil and family law. We believe we are blending the best elements of traditional chambers with those of non-traditional models in order to deliver a personal, friendly and efficient service of the highest quality to lawyers from both branches of the profession nationwide. Our focus will be to continually seek to improve that service and continue to build mutually successful and enjoyable professional relationships with our clients. There will be remarkable innovations launched and new locations. We will be – Normanton.
