Blackstone Chambers is a set of

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in the

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of central

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. Established in the 1950s, as of 2022 it had 119 tenants, of whom more than 50 are silks. Current notable members include Robert Anderson,

Michael Beloff Michael Jacob Beloff, KC (born 18 April 1942) is an English barrister and arbitrator. A member of Blackstone Chambers, he practises in a number of areas including human rights, administrative law and sports law. Career Beloff is the son of the ...

Michael Bloch Michael Anthony Bloch (born 24 September 1953) is an author and historian. Educated at Portadown College and St John's College, Cambridge, he was call to the bar, called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1978 and in 1979 became an assistant to ...

, Sir James Eadie (current First Treasury Counsel), Sir David Edward, Dinah Rose,

Lord Keen of Elie Richard Sanderson Keen, Baron Keen of Elie (born 29 March 1954) is a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He was Advocate General for Scotland from May 2015 until his resignation on 16 September 2020. Early life Keen was educated ...

Harish Salve Harish Salve ( Marathi : हरीश साळवे) KC is an Indian senior advocate who practices at the Supreme Court of India. He served as the Solicitor General of India from 1 November 1999 to 3 November 2002. He also fought the case o ...

Lord Pannick David Philip Pannick, Baron Pannick, (born 7 March 1956) is a British barrister and a crossbencher in the House of Lords. He practises mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the U ...

Lord Woolf Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf, (born 2 May 1933) is a British life peer and retired barrister and judge. He was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional R ...

, Adrian Briggs, Tom Hickman, Sir Jeffrey Jowell. Former notable set members include Sir Ian Brownlie,

Lord Lester of Herne Hill Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, QC (3 July 1936 – 8 August 2020) was a British barrister and member of the House of Lords. He was at different times a member of the Labour Party, Social Democratic Party and the Liberal D ...

, and

Guy Goodwin-Gill Guy Serle Goodwin-Gill (born 25 December 1946) is a barrister and a professor of public international law at Oxford University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research areas include international organisations, human rights, migrant ...

. Members of chambers specialise in public and administrative law and include some of the leading advocates in that field. human rights, commercial & international law. Their barristers have acted in high-profile cases such as ''R (Miller) v The Prime Minister'' and ''Cherry v Advocate General for Scotland'',
Newcastle United FC v the Premier LeagueBig Brother Watch (and others) V The United Kingdom
and Begum V Secretary of State for the Home Department.''

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