Expert Regulatory & Criminal Barristers

Mayfair Place Chambers is a boutique set of highly respected regulatory and criminal barristers, each of whom is recognised for their exceptional track record and is an acknowledged authority in their specialist fields.

The focused nature of the chambers ensures all members are distinguished by their excellence at the highest levels of their specialist legal practice. With a national and international reputation for quality in advocacy, legal insight, and specialist knowledge across a range of complex areas of law, they are regularly retained at the earliest stage of investigations to bring both a depth of experience and the utmost discretion to the most sensitive cases, and to provide clear, strategic advice throughout. With the addition of Sara Lawson KC, former General Counsel to the Serious Fraud Office, the team now offers unparalleled expertise and a unique perspective on the most significant developments in business crime.

Offering a modern and client-focused approach to the instruction of counsel, MPC is at the forefront of legal practice in the UK, based at One Mayfair Place, a prestigious location in the heart of London.

In addition to our dedicated chambers space, we provide state-of-the-art facilities for conferences, virtual hearings, and hybrid proceedings. One Mayfair Place also offers boardroom accommodation for larger meetings and seminars, with access to annex facilities worldwide.

We specialise in complex and high-profile health and safety matters, representing both corporate and individual clients across all industries. Our expertise spans the full range of cases arising from fatal and non-fatal incidents, including prosecutions, appeals against improvement and prohibition notices and judicial review challenges to enforcement action.
We are also highly experienced in fire safety law and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, advising on prosecutions, notice appeals, and technical referrals to the Secretary of State. Our barristers are frequently instructed at the earliest stages of investigation, providing strategic advice and representation in cases involving the HSE, local authorities, and fire and rescue services.
Our barristers have extensive experience in the most high-profile and sensitive work-related and public safety manslaughter investigations and prosecutions. We are routinely instructed in both corporate and gross negligence manslaughter cases, often from the earliest stages of investigation.
We bring a unique combination of expertise in health and safety, criminal law, and regulatory enforcement to these complex matters, offering strategic advice and robust representation throughout. Our work spans a wide range of industries and often involves parallel proceedings, including inquests, regulatory enforcement, and reputational management.
We offer a unique expertise in business crime, serious fraud, bribery and regulatory compliance, advising both companies and individual directors—particularly in the aftermath of reputational crises. Our barristers are regularly instructed in complex investigations and prosecutions involving serious fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, and corporate criminal liability.
We are highly experienced in internal investigations, cross-border enforcement, and navigating evolving regulatory frameworks. Our work includes advising on corporate governance, due diligence, and risk management strategies, as well as defending and negotiating outcomes in investigations and proceedings brought by the SFO, FCA, HMRC, and other domestic and international enforcement agencies.
With the addition of Sara Lawson KC, former General Counsel to the Serious Fraud Office, our team brings unique insight into the most significant developments in business crime, including Deferred Prosecution Agreements and the new corporate offence of failing to prevent fraud.
Acting for professionals, providers, and regulators in the most complex and sensitive healthcare regulatory matters, we advise and represent clients in proceedings before healthcare regulators, including the GMC, GDC, NMC, and HCPC, as well as in criminal and coronial investigations arising from clinical practice.
Our expertise includes advice on investigations and prosecutions by the Care Quality Commission, both pre-charge and at court, also before, during and after inquests where CQC investigations are likely to run in tandem with Coronial proceedings.
Our work includes fitness to practise hearings, appeals, and judicial reviews, as well as advising on parallel inquests, safeguarding issues, and reputational risk. We are also experienced in advising NHS Trusts, private healthcare providers, and individual clinicians on regulatory compliance, enforcement, and governance.
Members of MPC are regularly instructed in complex and high-profile inquests and public inquiries, often arising from fatal incidents in the workplace, healthcare settings, or public spaces. We act for a wide range of interested persons, including corporate entities, professionals, regulators, and bereaved families.
MPC’s barristers regularly appear in Article 2 inquests, jury inquests, and inquiries under the Inquiries Act 2005, and frequently appear in proceedings involving the Health and Safety Executive, the Care Quality Commission, and other regulatory bodies. Our work often overlaps with criminal, regulatory, and civil proceedings, and we are known for providing strategic, sensitive, and effective representation throughout.
Our barristers are instructed in a wide range of environmental law matters, including prosecutions, enforcement actions, regulatory appeals, and judicial review challenges to decisions made by environmental regulators. We act for companies, directors, public bodies, including within the water and waste industries, and individuals facing investigation or proceedings brought by the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, local authorities, and other regulatory bodies.
Our expertise includes cases involving pollution, waste management, waste and “end-of-waste”, environmental permitting, and statutory nuisance. We also advise on compliance strategies, regulatory risk, and reputational management in the context of environmental enforcement and policy.
Our barristers are regularly instructed in professional disciplinary proceedings across a wide range of regulated sectors, including healthcare, legal, financial, and education. We act for individuals, regulators, and representative bodies in fitness to practise hearings, interim order applications, and appeals before tribunals such as the MPTS, RCVS, GDC, NMC, SRA, and others.
We are also experienced in advising on parallel criminal, inquest, and employment proceedings, as well as judicial reviews of regulatory decisions. We work hand in hand with instructing solicitors to provide strategic, discreet, and client-focused representation, particularly in complex and reputationally sensitive cases.
Our barristers are instructed in some of the most serious and complex criminal cases before the courts, including allegations of homicide, serious violence, organised crime, and high-value fraud. Members of chambers offer unparalleled expertise in the defence of serious sexual allegations, including cases concerning ultra-high profile individuals. We are known for our strategic approach, courtroom excellence, and total discretion in the most sensitive of matters.
We also act in a wide range of general criminal cases, where reputational or professional consequences are at stake. We work closely with instructing solicitors to provide clear, tactical advice and robust representation from the earliest stages of investigation through to trial and appeal.