Serle Court Shortlisted for Six Awards at Legal 500 Bar Awards 2026

We are thrilled to announce that Serle Court, along with a number of our barristers and staff, have been shortlisted for six awards at the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2026:

Chancery Set of the Year – Serle Court
Chancery Silk of the Year – Daniel Lightman KC
Intellectual Property Silk of the Year – Michael Edenborough KC
Intellectual Property Junior of the Year – Thomas Elias
Senior Clerk of the year – Nicholas Hockney
Marketing Team of the year – Serle Court

We are immensely proud of the three members nominated as Silk and Juniors of the Year in their specialist areas; our Practice Director, Nick Hockney; and our Marketing Team, including Zoe Gardiner, S. “Fletch” Fletcher, Christina Woolery and Aaron Rush, for being recognised for their exceptional contributions to chambers. The number of nominations received this year is a testament to the outstanding work undertaken by everyone in Chambers.

We are extremely grateful to our clients for their continued support.

Congratulations to all of those shortlisted!

The awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 22nd September at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge.

Related Barristers

Michael Edenborough KC

Call: 1992
Silk: 2010

As part of a broad Chancery-Commercial practice, Daniel Lightman KC engages with challenging and novel issues of law and civil procedure, in particular concerning shareholder disputes (having appeared in a number of landmark unfair prejudice petitions and derivative claims), company law (including in matrimonial proceedings), insolvency, civil fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence.

Shortlisted for Company/Insolvency Silk of the Year in the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards in both 2026 and 2024 and shortlisted for Chancery Silk of the Year in the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2026, Daniel is recommended in Band 1 for Silks for Company by both Chambers UK, 2027 and the Legal 500, 2027 – and in Band 1 for Chancery Commercial by Chambers. Chambers UK, 2027 describes him as “A go-to silk for high value, complex disputes who leads the pack on shareholder disputes. He has great judgement and always furnishes reliable advice” and praises him for “constantly identifying innovative solutions to complex problems” and building “outstanding relationships with the wider legal team.”

Daniel has an extensive international practice, including current or recent shareholder litigation in the courts of Abu Dhabi, Bermuda, Cayman, Guernsey and Qatar, and a multi-shareholder arbitration in Hong Kong.