About Us - Direct Access Barristers
Cobden House Chambers was formed in 1997. We are based on Quay Street, Manchester, and operate nationwide.
Chambers has over 60 members practising in many areas of law, and five members of the family team now offer legal services direct to you.
The members of the team who are able to deal with your case directly are:
Carolyn Johnson
Carolyn is the Head of the Family Law Department at Cobden House Chambers. She undertakes all aspects of family law work that involves children including public law and private law proceedings continued...
Simon Nichol
Having previously been a partner in a busy city centre firm of solicitors, where he had built up a wide experience in many fields of practice including: crime, employment and immigration; Simon continued...
David Maddison
David Maddison graduated from Birmingham University in 1993, and went on to study the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law. After working in Manchester solicitors’ continued...
Martin Callery
Martin joined Cobden House Chambers after many years as a solicitor and is a former Principal Crown Prosecutor. He has a heavy weight practice dealing with cases of the utmost severity such as: continued...
Rebecca Hirst
Rebecca Hirst was called to the bar in 1999 and has practised as a barrister ever since. She has always practiced as a criminal barrister and has also practiced in immigration law. She deals with continued...
Arlene Milne
Arlene specialises in Family law and Personal Injury. She has an LLM in Advocacy within the legal profession and a Postgraduate diploma in European Law. Arlene is a collaboratively trained continued...
Tahina Akther
Tahina acts in all areas of family law, housing and bankruptcy. She regularly attends hearings in financial, children and domestic violence cases. In financial cases , she has appeared for continued...
Nicholas Flanagan
Nicholas has experience in defending a wide range of regulatory cases in the Crown and in the Magistrates’ Court, particularly where the cases involve private prosecution authorities, such continued...
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We are all accredited by the Bar Council for Public Direct Access Work.
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