Marc Beaumont is recommended by the Legal 500 as a leading Barrister outside London in the field of commercial litigation.
Date of Birth: 6th March 1963
Marc Beaumont, the founder of Windsor Chambers, is a senior Barrister. Having read law at Manchester University, he was called to the Bar at Gray´s Inn in 1985. He has considerable litigation and advocacy experience, particularly in the fields of property law and judicial review. He has appeared in courts at every level of the justice system, including the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords. Marc appears regularly in the High Court and County Courts in England and Wales. His clients are based all over the country and include firms of Solicitors, Banks, Building Societies, Chartered Surveyors and Accountants. He conducts both private and publicly funded work. Marc treats every client´s problem as if it were his own. This means that client money will never be wasted, risk will be carefully assessed and if the client is advised to fight in Court, this will only happen after careful quality control. Central to his litigation strategy is that he will negotiate, but only from a position of strength. In Court, Marc is original, thorough and tenacious. A considerable number of Marc´s cases have appeared in the law reports. Some are leading cases. A full list appears here. Marc enjoys a high profile within the profession. He set up his own Chambers at the relatively young age of 28 and, as Head of Chambers, developed and administered a growing, successful common law set of Chambers for 13 years. He believes that Barrister services can and should be provided from stylish and historic locations outside of London. Windsor Chambers is a product of those beliefs. Marc is an elected member of the Bar Council serving his fourth three year term. Between 1996 and 2005, Marc served three consecutive terms. He has served on many of the Bar Council's main Committees and Working Parties. In the best traditions of the Bar, Marc is a powerful "back-bench" speaker at Bar Council meetings, always speaking up for the rank-and-file practitioners who elected him and often ignoring the risk of personal unpopularity if a point has to be made forcefully to the Bar leadership. His speeches are pithy and powerful, but always elegant and polite. Radical thought is the more cogent for being delivered with good manners. Marc has been a force for fundamental change. Most notably: he single-handedly conceived, advocated and later helped to implement the new scheme of direct public access to the Bar. In May 2007, he single-handedly founded the Public Access Bar Association and is its first Chairman. He was also the architect of BCAS, the disciplinary and advisory service for Barristers. He then developed BCAS still further, by advocating to the Bar Council that Barrister professional indemnity insurance should extend to disciplinary matters, a model which was taken up by BMIF in 2007. At first, these fresh ideas met with fierce opposition. Yet all are now a popular and permanent feature of life at the English Bar. He has served on the Committees of the South Eastern Circuit and the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association. He is also a member of the Administrative Law Bar Association and the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers. He is the author of "Effective Mortgage Enforcement" (1998), lectures on property, banking and consumer credit law and has written for several legal journals. Marc also retains membership of specialist Chancery/Commercial Chambers at 9 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London. To read client feedback, please click here. | 
