1MCB Chambers was founded 40 years ago with the aim of representing all sectors of the community and we remain firmly committed to that original principle of ensuring access to justice through first-class representation. 1MCB Chambers is guided by its commitment to the communities it serves. We strive to support our members’ innovative, and often quiet, efforts to use law both to obtain justice for our individual clients and more broadly as a tool for social change. We owe much of our ethos to the leadership of Len Woodley QC, the first Afro-Caribbean to become a QC, who was head of Chambers for the twelve years from 1988 to 2000. He was involved in some of the most important race trials in the in the 70s and 80s. His dedication to civil liberties and equality of opportunity was not showy but it was radical and it is this approach that remains evident in 1MCB Chambers today.