Zach Brettell

Year of Call: 2025
Pupil Barrister

Career overview

Zach joined Chambers in September 2025, as a pupil, following successful completion of the BPTC at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy. He is undertaking pupillage under the supervision of Daniel White and will be available to take instructions from March 2026.

Zach holds an LLB from the University of Birmingham, where he was awarded the Henry Barber Prize for placing within the top five students in his graduating year. He subsequently completed an LLM in International Criminal Law, achieving a distinction.

Prior to commencing pupillage, Zach worked as a paralegal at a firm of solicitors, where he gained valuable experience in client communication and practical legal work.
During his Bar training, Zach took part in the Nuremberg Moot Competition, delivering written and oral submissions in the historic Nuremberg courtroom showcasing skills in criminal advocacy.

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Witness Familiarisation Support And Courses

These are a few examples of courses in which our members have been involved:

  • Witness familiarisation with trainee police officers and special constables from Northamptonshire Police, where the officers were questioned regarding their statements about ‘mock’ arrest exercises
  • Similar exercises with detectives from the West Midlands Police
  • Witness familiarisation with officers of the Northamptonshire Probation Service.  These officers were given training on the process of giving evidence in sentencing hearings in the Magistrates Court and Crown Court
  • Expert witness familiarisation and training, with expert witnesses such as independent Forensic Scientists, and officers of the Health and Safety Executive. The exercises involved questioning regarding expert reports prepared by the participants

Equal Opportunity Policy

 

Citadel’s members come from a range of backgrounds and everyone is treated with the same respect as part of our Chamber’s community. 

 

We operate an equal opportunity policy and act in accordance with the Bar Code of Conduct and the Equality Code for the Bar.

 

We seek to prevent direct or indirect discrimination towards our clients, staff, tenants and pupils, on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality or citizenship, political persuasion, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or age.

Maternity / Paternity Policy

We support all members  who  are fortunate enough to become parents.   Whilst Citadel has written policies dealing with issues of maternity and paternity leave for members of Chambers and support staff, we also try to be flexible in our approach and to accommodate individual needs.

Uniquely (to our knowledge) we offer direct financial support to members returning from parental leave in order to cushion the cash flow impact of return to practice . 

Click here to listen to a podcast about our members with children and how we deal with childcare issues.