Contact Us

Contact Us 

3 Dr. Johnson’s Buildings (Chambers of Andrei Szerard)
Temple
London
EC4Y 7BA 

Telephone: 020 7353 4854

Fax: 020 7583 8784

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

DX: LDE 1009

Head of Chambers: Andrei Szerard
Senior Clerk: John Hubbard

Delivery of Instructions: All instructions, by any method of delivery, must be addressed via the Clerks.

How to Find Us

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3 Dr. Johnson’s Buildings is located in the heart of Temple, facing Temple Church.

Nearest Cycle Hire Docking Stations
Milford Lane, Temple
Bouverie Street, Temple
Carey Street, Holborn
Victoria Embankment, Temple
Nearest Underground Stations
Temple
Blackfriars
Chancery Lane
Embankment
Nearest Mainline Stations
Blackfriars
Charing Cross
Waterloo
Buses
4, 11, 15, 23, 26, 76, 172, 243

Arrangements and Access for Disabled People

We can arrange meeting rooms with access for disabled people within Temple, very close to our Chambers. Alternatively, our Barristers can travel to Solicitors’ offices, or to any other venue to suit you. Please let the Clerks know of any particular requirements when arranging your conference.

Complaints

We sincerely hope, of course, that there will never be any cause to complain. However mistakes can happen even in the best-run businesses, and we take such matters very seriously.

If you have a complaint, please raise it directly with us in the first instance so that we may have the opportunity to resolve the issue. Normally, any complaint should be raised by the solicitor but, if appropriate, may be raised by the Client directly.

Complaints should be addressed to our Senior Clerk. For minor matters the Solicitor can contact the Senior Clerk by telephone and a record of the complaint will be kept by us. In more serious matters the complaint should be put in writing.

The Senior Clerk will do his best to resolve the matter himself. However, if it is not appropriate for him to deal with, or the complaint is clearly serious in nature, it will be referred to the Head of Chambers.

In inquiring into a complaint, the Head of Chambers may ask for further details, possibly inviting the complainant to Chambers to discuss the matter in person. If that happens, other senior members of Chambers will assist the Head of Chambers to come to a decision. If the complaint is well founded, the Head of Chambers will propose steps to make good the complaint.

Of course Clients also have the right to complain to the Legal Ombudsman, who may then pass it on to the profession’s independent regulatory body, the Bar Standards Board.

The Legal Ombudsman and the Bar Standards Board websites give full information on making complaints.

However, as the Legal Ombudsman says, “As with any kind of dispute, it is always best to complain to your lawyer first to give them a chance to resolve the issue.”

 

 

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An Englishman abroad

Mark Jones explores the tricky issue of domicile of origin over domicile of choice in Morris v Davies

 

The recent decision of the High Court in the case of Morris v Davies [2011] EWHC 1773 (Ch) emphasised the tenacious nature of a person's domicile of origin and the intensely fact-based approach to considering assertions of substitution of the same by an alternative domicile of choice.

The dispute arose from the administration of the estate of the late Owen Davies, who was born in England on 1 November 1963 and who died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Paris on the 26 November 2008, aged just 45. What happened thereafter informed much of the considerable antipathy in the case and the media interest at the time of the trial, where those close to the deceased agreed to and did conceal the fact of his death and his funeral from his family, with such a degree of success that for several months after both events they remained in complete ignorance.

 

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The Dowry in law

"The Dowry in law" by Miss Suki K Johal,

Barrister at 3 Dr Johnson's Building. Temple. London

In recent years there has been a proliferation of cases in the English courts on the issue of Indian dowries particularly in areas of high Asian population. The Oxford English Dictionary broadly defines dowry as encompassing 'money or property the wife brings with her to the husband's home; the portion given with the wife; a present or gift given by a man to or for his bride'. The Chambers English Dictionary provides 'the property which a woman brings to her husband at marriage; sometimes a gift given to or for a wife at marriage'. These definitions provide that dowry has two constituents- the giving of property to the bride from parents and kin and the giving of jewellery from the in-laws.

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