​Doughty Street: the first 25 years

Doughty Street Chambers celebrates its 25th birthday this year. It was founded in 1990 by 21 like-minded barristers who wanted to leave the Dickensian rabbit warren of the Temple and found a new Chambers dedicated to the shared ethos that—as Baroness Helena Kennedy QC has put it “law had to serve all of the people, lawyers had to be creative, courageous and progressive and that we should be striving for the highest standards in the protection of civil liberties and the Rule of Law” (“Doughty Street: the Next 25 Years” in Rights: Up Our Street—Celebrating 25 Years of Doughty Street Chambers (November 2015)).