Michael Chambers Email and Phone Number

Michael Chambers secures acquittal in conveyancing fraud G and three co-defendants were accused of a conveyancing fraud in which the email account of the purchaser’s solicitor was spoofed and funds for the purchase were transferred from the purchaser to bank accounts controlled by the fraudsters. G was the only defendant to be acquitted in a three-week trial at Woolwich Crown Court.​FAMILY Recent experience includesPrivate children lawInstructed in cases involving:Allegations of domestic violence, including successfully represented the respondent in a fact-finding hearing who faced multiple allegations of domestic violence;Cultural and religious concerns;Education concerns;Parental responsibility agreements;Child arrangements orders including prohibited steps orders and specific issues orders.Financial ordersInstructed in cases involving:Financial Orders including negotiations in relation to the matrimonial home at FDR;Represented respondent in late instructed FDR case in which parties disputed the accuracy of the schedule of assets.Confiscation proceedingsRepresenting third party interests in the former matrimonial home that the prosecution seeks to confiscate as part of the ex- husbands proceeds of crime.CIVIL:Developing a growing civil practice. Experience includesBreach of ContractDefamationCRIME:I am instructed by criminal defence firms to represent defendants charged with a variety of offences. I have extensive experience across a wide variety of crime including GBH, Armed Robbery, serious sexual assaults including those against children, child cruelty/neglect cases, serious drugs cases including a case involving the multi-million pound importation of class A drugs, dangerous driving, dishonesty and public order offences. I am currently instructed on a number of appeals against conviction and sentence in the Court of Appeal.I accept direct access work from the general public.

I am an experienced trainer for the UK's leading legal training and information company.I provide witness training at CEO and board-level for witnesses who anticipate giving evidence in contested civil proceedings.

I was instructed in crown and appeal courts mainly in London and the South East.My experience covered a wide variety of crime including GBH, armed robbery, serious sexual assaults including those against children, child cruelty and neglect cases, serious drugs cases including a case involving the multi-million pound importation of class A drugs, dangerous driving, dishonesty and public order offences. I was regularly instructed on benefit fraud cases.I was regularly instructed on appeals against conviction and sentence in the Court of Appeal.Cases includedR v A Junior counsel in case in which A and his wife B were charged with multiple counts of child neglect against V, who was the child of A and C, a woman with whom he had an affair shortly after he married B. V sustained life threatening injuries and whose long term prognosis is poor.R v SS had significant mental illness but was fit to stand trial in which he was charged with threats to kill and multiple serious violent offences including s18 against members of his estranged family including his children.R v L concerned the large-scale cultivation of cannabis which took place in residential housing using high-powered lights etc.R v JJ was a prison officer charged with offences related to an allegation of bringing class A and Class C drugs into prison for a prisoner with whom she was having inappropriate intimate communications. R v K 6 handed sophisticated fraud against DWP in which stolen and manipulated cheques and separately acquired debit cards were presented at post offices to defraud £600k+. There were in excess of 7,000 pages of evidence.R v L was a sexual activity case in which the alleged activity took place over the internet and telephone in which L never saw the complainants.

Regularly instructed by the defence and the crown across a variety of matters in the criminal courts.

Prior to retraining as a Barrister I had a successful career in advertising in the UK and USA. Planning,negotiating and buying of £multi-million television advertising campaigns. Clients included Fiat, Nationwide Building Society, Twentieth Century Fox and Procter & Gamble.At the RAB as Director of Advertiser Dialogue I worked with industry respected Douglas MacArthur respected(MD/founder) to help raise the profile and commercial success of commercial radio through developing conversations with major UK advertisers.At Ambient Media I was responsible for Business Development.