Members of Littleton are self-employed, independent practitioners, sharing premises and administration, operating together in a collegiate environment.
Littleton’s members are regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and all our barristers are listed on the BSB’s Barristers’ Register page.
We receive instruction from a wide variety of clients, including UK and international law firms, in-house legal departments, overseas lawyers. Some Members of Chambers accept work directly under the Licensed and Public Access Rules.
The clerking team works in conjunction with the barristers to provide fee estimates and budgets for each instruction. Each member of Chambers has an hourly rate which takes account of the level of expertise of a specific barrister, the barrister’s skills, the complexity of the matter, and the prevailing market rates. Ordinarily, charges for written work and advices are based on hourly rates. However, our clerking team is sometimes willing to consider alternative fee structures, including fixed or capped fees where it may be appropriate to do so.
Fees for hearings will usually consist of a brief fee which is a fixed amount to cover all the pre-hearing preparation and the first day of the hearing. Refreshers, charged for subsequent days of the hearing, will be on an agreed fixed fee basis. In certain appropriate cases some barristers are able to consider types of additional fees or damages-based agreements.
VAT will be added where applicable. Expenses incurred by barristers will only be added where agreed at the outset.
