For the judges, Outer Temple Chambers came across as a dynamic, forward-thinking set with a clear strategy, a growing corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme and a commitment to client care.

High-profile cases include an important decision on corporate and senior officer culpability in the field of regulatory law – HSE v Chargot Limited and Foster Wheeler Ltd v Hanley and others – a decision by the Court of Appeal of industry-wide importance about how benefits should be delivered to pension scheme members whose ‘normal retirement date’ has at any point been amended.