About Us

Farrar’s Building is situated next to the Temple Church, a two-minute walk from the Royal Courts of Justice and five minutes from Temple Underground Station.

We currently have forty tenants, which are comprised of eight silks and thirty two juniors. Members of chambers practise predominately in London and the South-East, but members appear in Courts and Tribunals in all parts of the UK and Chambers retains strong links with Wales, including Chester, historically part of the Wales & Chester Circuit.

Over the years members of Chambers have gone on to become judges in the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and on the Circuit bench. Current members of chambers sit as Deputy High Court Judges, Recorders, Queen’s Bench Division Masters, Assistant Boundary Commissioners, Professional Disciplinary Tribunal Chairmen, and are former members of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and Criminal Injuries Appeals Panels.

Barristers’ Chambers on the present site can be traced back many centuries but our name derives from Thomas Farrar, Treasurer of Inner Temple in 1679. James Boswell took rooms in the building there in the summer of 1763 and his time in residence coincided with his first meeting with Dr. Johnson; indeed, it was in Farrar’s Building that he entertained Johnson to dinner on the 20th July 1763.

In recent years Chambers has undertaken major refurbishment, which improved standards of accommodation, added an extra floor and provided an internal lift. In 1998, Farrar’s Building took over the adjoining lower ground floor of No. 3 Dr. Johnson’s Buildings, providing further accommodation. Chambers has also updated its computer network system, which, amongst other things, gives access to the Internet and to the Electronic Law Reports.