Jamie Hill KC
Door Tenant - Call: 1984 | Silk: 2006
Jamie Hill KC (Door Tenant)
Recorder: 2002
Inner Temple
Contact
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
With his extensive experience in all aspects of criminal law Jamie is the Silk of choice for many defence solicitors when seeking leading counsel for clients charged with serious offences, including murder, manslaughter, sexual abuse, kidnap, rape and fraud.
Reputation
Jamie Hill KC is noted for his 'ability to hold his nerve and provide strong leadership in distressing cases. He handles high-profile and serious criminal matters, such as manslaughter, rape and drugs cases. He acts for both the defence and the prosecution' (Chambers & Partners, 2022)
Expertise
Crime
He has particular expertise in medical and scientific issues, with recent experience of non-accidental head injuries in babies, and involvement in a leading case in the interpretation of LCN DNA evidence.
He also has considerable experience in employment and regulatory matters, particularly involving issues of Discrimination, Health and Safety issues. He has regularly represented the Police Federation over the last 25 years both as a Q.C. and Junior in relation to Police Disciplinary Hearings and Inquests. He has also advised several high ranking officers in relation to employment matters.
In addition Jamie has also advised a group of BME officers in Cleveland regarding discrimination claims which were settled as well as local hotel chain in relation to a serious fire safety case.
Wide experience of prosecuting and defending. Also has considerable experience of Police Disciplinary work and civil actions against the Police.
Notable Cases
R -v- F (Large scale drug dealing and rape to enforce drug debts, major issues of PII and role of informers)
R -v- Reed (Gangland killing – case based on LCN DNA interpretation)
R -v- Harrobin (Prosecution of historic sexual abuse)
R -v- Curtis & Others (Murder involving teenage knife crime)
R -v- Hodgson (Murder – 6 week missing body case. Appeal pending re prosecution use of forensic linguist to interpret text messages)
R -v- Jewell (Baby shaking murder reduced to manslaughter)
R -v- Vinter (Prosecution of murder – whole life order)
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Alex Verdan KC
Door Tenant - Call: 1987 | Silk: 2006
Alex Verdan KC (Door Tenant)
B.A. (Hons)
Dip. Law
Deputy High Court Judge 2009
Recorder 2004
Editor Butterworths Family Law Service
Arbitrator
Mediator
Contact
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
Alex Verdan KC specialises in complex and serious children cases, particularly those involving high conflict, relocation, child fatalities, significant injuries and serious abuse. Alex also has extensive experience in Inquiries.
Other information:
Alex Verdan KC practises from 4 PB in London, where he has been Head of Chambers since 2002.
Reputation
In the Family Law field, Alex Verdan KC needs no introduction. He is one of the UK’s foremost children law barristers. He won Chambers & Partners UK’s prestigious Family Law Silk of the Year award in 2012 and 2018. He is ranked as a starred individual in Chambers & Partners and in band 1 in the Legal 500.
Alex joined Broadway House in December 2012.
Alex has been in practice for over 30 years and over that time has built up extensive experience in all types of children cases. The majority of his practice is now in London. Alex regularly lectures at family law conferences and seminars and provides training for judges, solicitors, psychiatrists and social workers. He writes for various publications including Family Law Week, Solicitors Journal and New Law Journal.
Expertise
Alex Verdan KC specialises in complex and serious children cases, particularly those involving high conflict, relocation, child fatalities, significant injuries, serious abuse, factitious illness, intractable contact disputes. Notably, Alex was instructed by the children in reputedly the longest-running care case in English legal history – with the threshold hearing lasting 5 months – and recently completed a 30-day fact-finding hearing.
He also has extensive experience in Inquiries. Alex represented one of the local authorities in the Victoria Climbié Inquiry, was Counsel to the Isle of Man Commission of Inquiry into the Care of Young People and represented two local authorities in the recent Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). He is a frequent adviser to local authorities on policy issues, and to the media in relation to various aspects of family law.
Notable Cases
Re MY v FY [2020] EWFC 48
Re SX (A Child) [2020] 1573
A Local Authority v Mother & Others [2020] EWHC 1086
Re AB v CD v C [2019] EWHC 1695
Williams v Hackney [2018] UKSC 37
Re AB [2018] EWFC 3
Re L [2017] EWCA Civ 2173
Re C [2017] EWHC 692
Re RA [2016] EWFC 47
Re R [2016] EWCA Civ 1130
Re S [2016] EWCA Civ 1020
Sutton LBC v MH v RH v NH [2016] EWHC 1375
Ciccione v Ritchie [2016] EWHC 616
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Jason Galbraith-Marten KC
Door Tenant - Call: 1991 | Silk: 2014
Jason Galbraith-Marten KC (Door Tenant)
One of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2022
Chambers & Partners finalist for Employment Silk of the Year 2021
Labour and Employment Lawyer of the Year 2014, Lawyer Monthly Magazine
Listed in Chambers 100 published by Chambers & Partners UK as one of the top 100 business lawyers in the UK
Employment Junior of the Year 2009
Pegasus Scholar to New Zealand 1994
Middle Temple Astbury Scholar
Contact
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
In a career at the Bar spanning 30 years, Jason Galbraith-Marten KC has established himself as one of the UK’s most-respected practitioners in employment and equality law but whatever the field of law, he is single-mindedly focused on successful dispute resolution and the promotion of his clients’ best interests. Jason joined Broadway House Chambers’ Employment Law Team as a Door Tenant in May 2015.
Other information:
Jason Galbraith-Marten KC is a Door Tenant and continues to practice from Cloisters, London.
Reputation
"He is a smart and confident advocate with a strong profile in the employment status area, and he explains complicated matters in an accessible way." "He's pragmatic and really experienced, and he knows how to negotiate in very difficult situations. His advice is also effective and he can bring real momentum to a negotiation." "He is very good at making even a weak point attractive to the court. He is very bright, he is careful in his preparation, and is a good strategist who knows which points to pick and which to leave alone." Chambers & Partners 2022
"Great for tricky and complex discrimination cases and a real team player." Legal 500 2022
Expertise
Employment
In a career at the Bar spanning 30 years, Jason Galbraith-Marten KC has established himself as one of the UK’s most-respected practitioners in employment and equality law but whatever the field of law, he is single-mindedly focused on successful dispute resolution and the promotion of his clients’ best interests. Jason joined Broadway House Chambers’ Employment Law team as a Door Tenant in May 2015.
Notable Cases
• R. (on the application of United Trade Action Group Ltd) v Transport for London, Uber London Ltd v Transport for London [2021] EWHC 3290 (Admin) acting for Uber drivers to establish that the Private Hire Vehicles Act 1998 requires Uber and other PHV operators to contract with passengers as principal and not as agent.
• Uber BV v Aslam [2021] UKSC 5, successfully defending decision of the EAT [2018] ICR 453 and Court of Appeal [2019] ICR 845 re: the employment status of Uber minicab drivers.
• B v Yodel Delivery Network Ltd (C-692/19) [2020] IRLR 550, CJEU, acting for the successful Respondent in a case concerning the employment status of Yodel delivery drivers.
• Varnish v British Cycling Federation [2020] IRLR 822, EAT, acting for the successful Respondent in a case concerning the employment status of an Olympic athlete.
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Andrzej Bojarski KC
Door Tenant - Call 1995 | Silk 2024
Andrzej Bojarski KC
Barrister, Arbitrator and Mediator
LLB (Hons) London School of Economics
Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
Family Law Bar Association
Chancery Bar Association
Gray’s Inn
Contact
E: clerks@broadwayhouse.co.uk
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
Andrzej Bojarski KC is a senior barrister and a leading ADR practitioner (as a family law arbitrator and a mediator), with a practice which has an unrivalled span across family law and chancery law. He is routinely instructed in cases involving complex business and trust structures, difficult issues of commercial law or corporate law, or with claims involving third parties. Much of his case load involves cross-border international elements. As well as his matrimonial work he deals with the chancery aspects of family disputes, including ToLATA claims and Inheritance Act disputes. He has developed particular expertise in crypto assets and FinTech.
Andrzej is also one of the most experienced and frequently chosen arbitrators and private FDR neutral evaluators. He is also a popular and effective mediator, known for bringing calmness to acrimonious disputes and finding creative solutions to apparently intractable problems.
Andrzej writes and lectures widely on English family law. He has been the Consultant Editor of the last two editions of the Matrimonial and Civil Partnership Law volumes of the authoritative legal encyclopaedia Halsbury’s Laws of England and he is also the author of a leading textbook on financial remedies in divorce.
Reputation
"A silent assassin. Pleasant and solutions-focused, he's forward-thinking and amicable with his opposite number, but in court he's ruthless in the way he presents the case and makes submissions to judges."
"A super advocate who is very easy to listen to. He's focused, he doesn't take nonsense points and he makes the most of his good ones. His cross-examination is really good."
"Andrzej Bojarski is excellent - he's very calm and very well-liked by his clients. He gives good advice and his paperwork and preparation are perfect."
(Chambers and Partners, 2023)
‘Andrzej brings his advocacy skills to the private judging sphere. He is thorough, empathetic and kind, hugely intelligent, and probably thinking five steps ahead of the advocates in front of him on every case, hard-working and keen to find/broker settlement. He is fully resolution-focused and will leave no stone unturned in trying to get a couple to that end.’
‘Andrzej gives clear well thought and excellent advice. He is a very good advocate and unfailingly polite to all involved. He is reliable and hugely experienced. He puts clients at their ease.’ He has ‘excellent client care skills’ and is an ‘incredibly easy barrister to work with’.
(Legal 500, 2023)
"Andrzej is fair-minded, technical and able to deal with the most difficult areas of family law."
"He really gets under the skin of the case from an early stage, and is personable, calm and understated. His technical knowledge is excellent."
"He is well prepared, very knowledgeable and has a great eye for detail."
"He's very financially astute, and I rate him very highly"
(Chambers & Partners, 2020)
"Has the ability to untangle the most complicated financial setup and then offer practical advice." (Legal 500, 2020)
"Andrzej is a master for detail and an excellent draftsman."(Chambers & Partners, 2019)
"He wins by being clever, persuasive and rational." (Chambers & Partners, 2019)
"Go-to individual for financial work. I know I can trust him and he will cut to the chase. He is brilliant with the client too." (Chambers & Partners, 2017)
"A very accomplished advocate. Good on paper and in court." (Chambers & Partners, 2017)
"Andrzej is excellent for financial work. His expertise in complicated offshore finances is second to none, and he is a barrister who offers strong advice." (Chambers & Partners, 2017)
"He is just outstanding. He knows the law and procedure like the back of his hand."(Chambers & Partners, 2016)
"Measured, eloquent, sensible" (Chambers & Partners, 2016)
Publications:
Consultant Editor of the Matrimonial and Civil Partnership Law volumes of Halsbury’s Laws of England.
Author of Unlocking Matrimonial Assets on Divorce (Family Law, 3rd edition 2012)
Author of numerous articles and regular presenter of webinars, seminars and lectures on family law.
Ranked as a leading practitioner for financial remedies work and ADR by both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
Expertise
Finance: Andrzej is very highly rated as one of the most knowledgeable and skilled lawyers in the field of family finance, dealing with cases where the parties were married and are divorcing, and also in disputes between unmarried couples or resulting from other family relationship breakdowns. He is routinely instructed in the most difficult cases and has particular experience of trusts and complex business structures, usually with a multi-jurisdictional and international dimension. He is also well-known for his experience of and expertise in cases involving crypto-assets and FinTech, business and corporate governance issues in the midst of relationship breakdown, and property disputes involving families, including in relation to the estates of the deceased.
While he was still a junior barrister the influential Chambers & Partners Bar rankings listed Andrzej as one of only four “Star Individuals” in Matrimonial Finance work in London.
ADR: Andrzej has been a family law arbitrator since 2012 and has been acting as a neutral evaluator in private FDRs since 2017. He has conducted in excess of 200 arbitrations and private FDRs with many clients regarding him as the ‘go to’ tribunal in difficult cases. The Legal 500 says “Andrzej brings his advocacy skills to the private judging sphere. He is thorough, empathetic and kind, hugely intelligent, and probably thinking five steps ahead of the advocates in front of him on every case, hard-working and keen to find/broker settlement. He is fully resolution-focused and will leave no stone unturned in trying to get a couple to that end.”
International: Many of Andrzej’s cases involve an international dimension and he has extensive experience of jurisdictional disputes and the tracing or assets and enforcement of orders across international borders. He is also regularly approached to offer advice on English law to lawyers overseas. Andrzej is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.
Notable Cases
Unger v Ul Hasan [2023] UKSC 22. Seminal Supreme Court decision on whether unadjudicated matrimonial claims survive the death of a party.
Baker v Baker [2022] EWFC 15 and [2023] EWFC 136. Successful repudiation of a wife’s claim that a husband had undisclosed assets of over $30 million.
Joseph v Grandison [2019] EWHC 977 (Fam). Successful enforcement of a ‘best endeavours’ injunction.
Clerks
Frances Hertzog
Door Tenant - Call: 2001
Frances Hertzog (Door Tenant)
Manchester Metropolitan University
Bar Vocational Course
University of Liverpool LLB (Hons)
Contact
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
Frances is a member of Broadway House Chambers’ Criminal Team. She is very experienced in all areas of criminal practise, particularly fraud, white collar crime and matters under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Expertise
Criminal
Frances very experienced in all areas of criminal practise, particularly fraud, white collar crime and matters under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Clerks
Syam Soni
Call: 2015
Syam Soni
Honourable Society of Lincolns Inn
Criminal Bar Association (CBA)
Society of Asian Lawyers
Mentor at Queer Lawyers of Tomorrow
Amicus ALJ
Contact
T: 01274 722 560 / 0113 246 2600
A dedicated criminal defence specialist with a nationwide practice, Syam has developed a reputation for consistently delivering excellence for clients across the spectrum of criminal allegations. From conspiracy to murder to burglary, Syam is fearless in his representation of all clients.
Syam has represented those accused of some of the most serious offences, as well as leading business professionals, CEOs and even nobility.
Syam had a successful career in the banking industry prior to the Bar. He also volunteered on Death Row in Houston, Texas, following which he studied Astronomy and Philosophy in Boston, MA.
Syam is multilingual- fluent in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi- and authorised to accept instructions from members of the public.
Reputation
Syam is ranked in the Legal 500:
“Syam Soni has exceptional legal acumen” (2025)
Syam has provided training to solicitors, local authorities and universities on a range of legal matters including:
• Advocacy/case presentation
• The rules of evidence (bad character, hearsay etc.)
• The disclosure regime and best practices
Syam is part of the South-Eastern Circuit (SEC) delegation due to visit Gainesville, Florida, in 2022 to assist with the training of US lawyers.
Expertise
Syam is experienced both as a led junior and junior alone and is regularly instructed in complex and heavyweight cases including:
- conspiracy to murder
- serious violence (offences up to and including attempted murder)
- rape and serious sexual offences
- serious firearms allegations
- multi-million pound drugs supply conspiracies
Notable Cases
Operation Phantom (Bolton CC, 2024): Syam was instructed to defend complex POCA proceedings where the defendant was said to have benefited to the value of approximately £10 million arising from a large-scale conspiracy to supply drugs. Through forensic analysis and careful negotiation, Syam was able to halve both the alleged benefit and available amounts to achieve the most favourable outcome for his client.
Operation M (Birmingham CC,2023): prosecuted by KC in case concerning drugs supply conspiracy worth hundreds of thousands of Pounds.
Operation D (Teesside CC, 2023): representing defendant accused of large-scale fraud targeting vulnerable customers
York CC,2023: represented at retrial a man accused of raping his former partner. Syam succeeded in making targeted and focused submissions as well as robustly challenging the fairness of the prosecution. The jury acquitted within an hour.
Operation S (Central Criminal Court, 2022): led junior in conspiracy to murder, possession of firearms with intent to endanger life, possession of Class A drugs etc. Cross-examined the leading Prosecution EncroChat expert
Operation M (Manchester CC, 2022): defended man charged with multi-million Pound drugs importation conspiracy involving EncroChat
R v G (Leeds CC, ongoing): defending man accused of serious sexual offences against a child
R v C (Basildon CC, 2021): represented defendant charged with possessing indecent and extreme images. Avoided Newton Hearing and secured community order where custody otherwise inevitable
R v B (Kingston CC, 2021): s.18- defended woman with complex mental health difficulties accused of throwing boiling water in the face of a care worker
R v S (Isleworth CC, 2021): acquittal in serious violent disorder (later affray) involving 25 people armed with swords in a residential neighbourhood
R v M (Snaresbrook CC, 2021): secured suspended sentence for PWITS Class A where the expectation was that D would receive a sentence of immediate custody of significant length
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