Shortlisted: Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards 2024

Shortlisted: Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2024

We are thrilled to announce that both Serle Court and our barristers have been shortlisted for five awards at the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Awards 2024. These awards, based on rigorous research for the Chambers UK Bar Guide, recognise excellence in legal work, strategic growth, client service, and the leading chambers across the country. We have been shortlisted in the following categories:

Chancery Silk of the year – Elizabeth Jones KC

Chancery Junior of the year – Adil Mohamedbhai

Chancery Set of the year – Serle Court

Commercial Dispute Resolution Silk of the year – Jonathan Adkin KC

Company/Insolvency Silk of the year – Daniel Lightman KC

We are immensely proud of the 4 members nominated as Silk and Juniors of the Year in their specialist areas. The number of nominations received this year is a testament to the outstanding work undertaken by everyone in Chambers.

As always, 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 Thursday, 14 November 2024 at 1 Old Billingsgate Walk, London.

Related Barristers

Elizabeth Jones KC

Call: 1984
Silk: 2000

Jonathan Adkin KC

Call: 1997
Silk: 2013

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.