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Highly experienced clerking offering national coverage with a client focused approach
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The Libertas Clerks

Highly experienced clerking, offering national coverage with a client focused approach

Our clerking team is your first point of contact for all enquiries. Each of the clerks have a complete knowledge of each barrister and can assist you in recommending the most appropriate barrister or combination of barristers for each individual case.

Responsive, efficient and commercially astute, our clerks provide a high-quality, client-focused service. We pride ourselves on understanding our domestic and international clients’ needs and providing a first-class service at all times.

Marc King and his clerking teams have been consistently praised for well over a decade.  Some of the more recent credits in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories include:

  • 2023
    • “Marc King knows the importance of face to face contact with clients.”
    • “Libertas offers a great service.”
    • “If you go to him with a problem - at the end of the phone call it is done and dusted and you on to the next problem.”
    • “Marc is very proactive and very experienced.”
  • 2022 - "The clerks are very efficient and helpful." Marc King, a man of longstanding reputation, is the senior clerk. Members at the set keep clients updated on relevant changes in the law through articles and the provision of at least one free webinar each month on the latest developments in law and practice."
  • 2020 Crime - "Head clerk Marc King cannot do enough to help."
  • 2019 Crime - "The responsiveness of the clerks is exceptional. I deal a lot with senior clerk Marc King, and if ever there is a query, he can address it in an instant."
  • 2019 Financial Crime - "The clerks led by Marc King provide a consistently exceptional level of service."
  • 2018 Crime - Senior clerk Marc King "never lets the instructing solicitor down" and is described by one source as being "the best in the business for getting the work through the door."
  • 2018 Financial Crime - Head clerk Marc King is very popular among those that instruct him, who say: "He always makes time for you and never lets you down."
  • 2017 Financial Crime - Marc King is the head clerk and, according to one source, "the most responsive clerk I've ever dealt with."
  • 2016 Crime - Head clerk Marc King is "a most accommodating and helpful man" who leads a team that "bends over backwards" to assist clients.
  • 2015 Crime - Marc King leads the set's clerking team and is known as "a man who makes things happen."
Marc KingDirector of Clerking

Hugely experienced Director of Clerking, Marc King, leads the clerking and administrative team.  He has overall responsibility for all aspects of Chambers practice management, marketing and business development. Marc regularly travels throughout the UK and overseas visiting clients.

Marc embraced the changes brought about by the pandemic to structure a truly virtual clerks’ room with members of the team operating from different parts of the UK from where they are available to meet clients, whilst remaining in continuous contact during working hours.  This client-focused approach further highlights Libertas’ physical presence nationally whilst being a dynamic chambers, structured for the future.

+44 (0) 20 7036 0200 +44 (0) 20 7036 0201 (DD) +44 (0) 79 5685 3737 Email Marc King CJSM Email
Louis KingPractice Clerk

Louis began clerking in December 2019 after achieving professional qualifications in accounting, since then he has quickly adapted to the legal world and his role of diary management. His laidback, calm manner and willingness to go the extra mile is what stands out to members of chambers and solicitors.

+44 (0) 20 7036 0200 +44 (0) 20 7036 0202 (DD) +44 (0) 74 3269 5193 Email Louis King CJSM Email
Gary DouglasPractice Clerk

Gary has over 24 years experience as a Criminal & Regulatory Clerk mainly on the Northern & North Eastern Circuit before joining Chambers in November 2020.

He delivers a high quality and an efficient clerking service to clients and members of Chambers by identifying and taking all opportunities to increase the quality and value of work undertaken by members of Chambers, in conjunction with the Senior Clerk, Marc King.

His role includes day to day diary management with an eye on developing practices across all disciplines within Chambers.

+44 (0) 20 7036 0200 +44 (0) 20 7036 0203 (DD) +44 (0) 78 5003 7410 Email Gary Douglas CJSM Email
Claire MartinFees Clerk

Claire has over 20 years’ experience working within Chambers as both a clerk and fees clerk.

Her role at Libertas includes all aspects of billing and fee collection alongside the day-to-day running of Chambers finance and accounts.

+44 (0) 20 7036 0200 +44 (0) 20 7036 0204 (DD) +44 (0) 78 4183 0492 Email Claire Martin CJSM Email
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(1/3) James Walker, instructed in Operation Tantic by Laura Cook of Elliot Mather Solicitors, represented Daniel Harris who was charged with 6 counts of encouraging terrorism and a count of possessing an article with intent at Manchester Crown Square. pic.twitter.com/4nzZzikK28

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The boy and 2 others were convicted of violent disorder after telling the jury they played no part in encouraging the specific assault.

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Case Update: After a 10-week trial, Adam Kane KC's schoolboy client was acquitted at Birmingham of murder and manslaughter. The boy was aged 13 years and 3 months when the killing occurred; the principal was convicted of murder. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… #barrister #law #trial pic.twitter.com/JSsGbweO3C

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Case Update: Syam Soni secures acquittal for client accused of aggravated burglary at Kingston Crown Court. Head to our website for more - libertaschambers.com/media-hu… #barrister #legal #law #burglary #solicitors Syam was instructed by Kaddy Bojang of @TaylorRoseMW pic.twitter.com/YzeBxMPiAX

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DR FELICITY GERRY KC PUBLISHES ARTICLE ON CLOSING PRISONS IN PROSPECT MAGAZINE Find out more including a link to the article at our blog today - libertaschambers.com/media-hu… @prospect_uk #barrister #legal #law pic.twitter.com/u6iuTf4mFy

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