'Experience of all sorts at the Bar and on the Bench has led to the
thought that a few timely words could avoid a lot of grief as well as
perhaps bringing a smile or two from the pictures.' At the Bar Nick
Chambers did a great variety of cases ranging from the miners'
respiratory claims to the Kuwait Airways litigation. On the Bench his
job was to manage and try cases as the Mercantile Judge for Wales and
Chester and then for Wales as well as sitting in London in the
Commercial Court and other jurisdictions. He was a member of the Civil
Procedure Rule Committee at the time of the introduction of the Woolf
reforms. He now practices as an arbitrator and mediator from Brick Court
Chambers. The Chambers family's involvement with watercolours goes back
to 1779 with an ancestor's sketches during the Siege of Gibraltar. Since
then each generation has made its own contribution including scenes from
Mumbai in the V&A and the first illustrations of the rules of rugby
football done at the school in 1845. Illustrations and texts from Nick's
book Missed Moments in Legal History hang in the Rolls Building. The
pictures in Case Handling pay a further happy tribute to his past. This
book, with its pithy advice and attractive illustrations, makes taking
the serious medicine of case handling a pleasure both for the recently
qualified and anyone else with an interest in making dispute resolution
work.
