St Philip’s Chambers’ Richard Fowler, senior clerk for the criminal law group, is to leave for London set 1 Hare Court at the end of October, in a move which could leave the set’s criminal law group without a senior clerk.

Fowler had been due to take over the duties of departing chief clerk Clive Whitcomb, who is leaving for Manchester set Deans Court. Deans Court has been without a senior clerk since the departure of Terry Creathorn in April this year.