9 Stone Buildings offers expertise in both corporate and personal insolvency matters, and its barristers are highly regarded for their handling of insolvency litigation involving allegations of fraud or professional negligence. The set’s barristers are also have experience handling directors’ misfeasance claims, while cases stemming from trusts or probate matters are also a key area of strength for the team. The set is regularly instructed in both domestic and cross-border claims, and its impressive client roster includes liquidators, creditors and government bodies such as HMRC. Instructing solicitors praise 9 Stone as an “extremely user-friendly, very responsive and very commercial set.” Chambers and Partners 2022 Edition

“Chancery chambers 9 Stone Buildings is ‘an impressive set, which demonstrates a breadth of knowledge and experience from junior to senior counsel’…” Legal 500

About us

9 Stone Buildings is one of the oldest established sets of barristers’ chambers in Lincoln’s Inn. We are barristers with a long history and proven experience in the specialist areas of traditional and commercial chancery. Many members of chambers are recognised as leading practitioners in their fields. Members regularly appear in all levels of courts and tribunals both in England & Wales and overseas jurisdictions, where some have established practices.

We take a modern approach to meeting the needs and expectations of all our clients, with professionalism and integrity. Our members have a reputation for advocacy, knowledge and experience enabling us to provide clients with the highest standards of legal advice and representation. In recent years our chambers have been joined by some notable established practitioners in line with Chambers’ policy of selective recruitment.

9 Stone Buildings has received recommendations of leading chambers and/or practitioners in the following areas:-

Restructuring/Insolvency (Chambers and Partners 2022 Edition)
Real Estate Litigation (Chambers and Partners 2022 Edition)
Commercial Chancery (Chambers and Partners 2022 Edition)
Traditional Chancery (Chambers and Partners 2022 Edition)
Insolvency (The Legal 500, 2022 Edition)
Private Client: Trusts and Probate (The Legal 500, 2022 Edition)
Property Litigation (The Legal 500, 2022 Edition)
Civil Fraud (The Legal 500 2022 Edition)

We run an extensive and well-attended seminar programme.

Chambers provides, for the benefit of clients lay and professional, comfortable conference facilities together with a clerking team which has been recently described by Chambers and Partners “The clerks are excellent – by far and away the easiest to use and the most user-friendly for instructing solicitors. They are flexible on fee arrangements and very responsive.”, and “The clerks are some of the nicest, most hard-working and super friendly people.” They also state .” The senior clerk Alan Austin is “very commercial and runs a first-rate clerking team.”. The Legal 500 has previously stated the clerking team as providing “a very good service” and adopting a “friendly and helpful approach.”