Like Minds

With over 60 tenants, including six Silks, we have a vibrant community of barristers that gives us real strength and standing across our practice areas. On this page you can learn more about our tenants and pupils and why they chose St John’s.

Tenants

Andrew Marsden
Andrew qualified and practised as a solicitor with Freshfields. He did a pupilage with St John’s and was called in 1994. He specialises in corporate and commercial work; particularly in resolving matters following a breakdown in relations between persons in business together.

Emma Zeb
Emma completed her pupilage with a specialist PI and Clinical Negligence set in London, before moving to St John’s Chambers in December 1999.

Anna Symington
Anna Symington moved to St John’s after completing her pupilage in October 2003. She specialises in personal injury work.

Zoe Saunders
Zoe Saunders is a Junior Barrister specialising in Family Law. She joined St John’s Chambers from a London set in 2004.

Christopher Jones
Christopher was called in 2004 and joined St John’s Chambers a year after completing his pupilage at another Bristol set. He specialises in Chancery.

Pupils

Michael Clarke
Michael is a pupil barrister at St John’s Chambers. Michael previously served in the Royal Air Force for six years and as a police officer for ten years before studying law at Bristol University and qualifying as a solicitor with Burges Salmon LLP in 2004. His practice area as a solicitor was corporate and personal taxation. Michael is also qualified as a chartered tax adviser.

Richard Norman
Richard is a pupil barrister at St John’s Chambers. Having completed his undergraduate degree in music at Bristol University, Richard studied for the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Vocational Course in London. He is a member of Gray’s Inn and was called to the bar in 2009.

Claire Leonard
Claire Leonard studied Philosophy at Clare College, Cambridge. Having grown up in Bristol, she returned to the city to complete the CPE, an LLM and the BVC. Claire joined St John’s Chambers as a pupil in September 2009.

Oliver Wooding
Oliver joined St Johns Chambers as a pupil in September 2009. He grew up in Somerset, and took an undergraduate and a masters degree in history at Lincoln College, Oxford. He moved back to the Westcountry after working in London for a year, and then converting to law and doing the BVC at City University.