 Chambers’ origins are in the early part of the twentieth century, when they are thought to have been based in Hare Court, but their period of sustained success dates from the efforts of a group of individuals working from Chambers in the aftermath of the Second World War.In the late 1940s and early 1950s a high reputation for commercial litigation was built, thanks to Melford Stevenson, Alan Orr, and Leslie Scarman, with the support of a distinguished clerk, Cyril Batchelor.The chambers moved to its present location in Fountain Court in the Middle Temple, previously the home of the Bar Council, in the 1970s from Crown Office Row.