Josephine Scally

Miss Scally was called to the bar in 1984 and, after serving a pupillage in St. John Street Chambers, Manchester, pursued a general practice of family, crime and personal injury, later joining Manchester House Chambers where her practice became more focused on criminal and personal injury work.

She took a career break in 1995 as a result of family committments and then worked as an in-house advocate for Thornhill Ince & Partners, an Immigration Specialist firm of solicitors concentrating on asylum advocacy in the Manchester Immigration Tribunal.
She returned to practice as a member of Palmyra Chambers in January 2009 and, having developed an interest and experience in residential development and planning law at local authority level, currently undertakes work for affected parties and groups addressing planning committees dealing with residential and commercial planning issues; and advises on and drafts applications for judicial review and planning appeals.  She continues to undertake civil work, particularly credit hire, personal injury and contract cases.



Other Barristers
Robert Askey

Robert Askey

Robert’s Chancery Practice and experience encompasses Banking and Financial transactions, Landlord & Tenant, Land Law and Insolvency, as well as Employment, Housing and Personal Injury

Josephine Scally

Josephine Scally

called to the bar in 1984 and, after serving a pupillage in St. John Street Chambers, Manchester, pursued a general practice of family, crime and personal injury

Lorraine Barton

Lorraine Barton

Lorraine was educated at Liverpool John Moores University and completed her BVC at Manchester University.  She was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 2000

Cathy Mitchell

Cathy Mitchell

Cathy deals in particular with credit hire and road traffic accident cases and personal injury work. She has conducted trials on the small claims and fast track

Neil Addison

Neil Addison

Neil has particular experience in Civil/Criminal cases such as Proceeds of Crime, Banning Orders, Anti Social Behaviour, and Police Powers

Maria Mulla

Maria Mulla

Maria receives instructions across the full range of civil litigation and appears regularly in trials and applications in the County Court

Tahir Khan

Tahir Khan

Ex police constable for the Greater Manchester Police, former Partner/ Solicitor in the Personal Injury department of a Manchester City centre solicitors practice. Tahir has

Iain Mutch

Iain Mutch

Iain specialises in crime, housing and personal injury work, litigious and non-litigious family work, the interpretation of consumer contracts and the drafting and interpretation of tenancy agreements.

Steven Levine

Steven Levine

Steven has been a Barrister for over 19 years since his call to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn and pupillage and gaining his Masters Degree in Law in London. He has a predominantly mixed common law background

Jonathan Rule

Jonathan Rule

Head of Chambers

Jonathan specialises in landlord and tenant, real property, easements and covenants, insolvency, wills and probate, inheritance disputes, partnerships and general commercial disputes