1. ‘Chambers’ means the Chambers of Timothy Raggatt QC at 4 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, London EC4Y 7DL. ‘Counsel’ or ‘barrister’ means a member of Chambers or pupil holding higher court advocacy rights.
‘Instructing Solicitor’ means a solicitor who has the right as a professional client to brief or instruct a barrister on behalf of a lay client.

2. Chambers operates a fixed fee scheme, whereby counsel can be engaged by Instructing Solicitors to appear at certain types of county court hearings at a fixed rate (‘the fixed fee scheme’):-

3. The fixed fee scheme applies to hearings (a) before a District Judge in London county courts (see clause 5), (b) in cases allocated to the small claims track or the fast track (or if it has not been allocated, is within the normal limits for those tracks), and (c) where the case papers or brief does not exceed 75 pages. If a hearing does not fall within these parameters it may be possible for Chambers to provide representation at comparable rates, subject to individual arrangement on a case-by-case basis.

4. Because the fixed fee scheme is designed for straightforward hearings, the rates quoted above only apply to hearings that are listed to and do last for less than one hour (save for small claims hearings, where there is no such limitation). If the hearing lasts for more than one hour (i.e. actual time in court exceeds one hour) then an additional charge of £5 for each additional ten minutes of hearing time will be levied.

5. The London county courts to which the fixed fee scheme applies are: Barnet, Bow, Brentford, Bromley, Central London, Clerkenwell & Shoreditch, Croydon, Edmonton, Ilford, Kingston-upon-Thames, Lambeth, Mayor’s and City, Romford, Uxbridge, Wandsworth, West London, Willesden and Woolwich.

6. The rates set out in these terms and conditions will apply until 1 January 2008.

7. Instructions are accepted subject to the normal terms on which Instructing Solicitors instruct barristers and are set out in The Terms Of Work On Which Barristers Offer Their Services To Solicitors And The Withdrawal Of Credit Scheme 1988. A copy of the scheme is available on the Bar Council’s website www.barcouncil.org.uk.

8. Chambers accepts instructions from Instructing Solicitors by DX, fax, post and e-mail. However, as none of these methods of delivery are infallible, Instructing Solicitors should not assume instructions have been received and accepted until they have received such confirmation from Chambers. Chambers encourages Instructing Solicitors to make contact by telephone to enquire about the availability of counsel and to make bookings.

9. The provision of the services of a barrister is always subject to availability and to his rights and obligations in regard to the acceptance of instructions as set out in the Bar Council’s Code of Conduct. Nothing on this website can or should be taken to infer that Chambers is making a guarantee that it can accept a certain type of instructions or provide representation for a particular hearing or at a particular rate.