Professional Liability
Athena has growing experience of professional negligence includes matters involving solicitors, brokers and construction and design professionals.
Selected Cases
- Advising and representing a homeowner in a claim for negligence and/or breach of contract against her designer. This claim also involves questions of misrepresentation, exclusion of liability and the scope of a duty of care based upon the assumption of responsibility.
- Advising Insurers as to the effect of an exclusion clause in a design and maintenance contract for a bespoke product.
- Advising a surveyor in a claim for professional negligence for failing to notice and report the presence of Japanese Knotweed at a home.
- Advising a solicitor in a claim for professional negligence arising from a property transaction.
Awards
- Lincolns Inn BPTC Lord Denning Scholarship (2010)
- Lincolns Inn Hardwicke Entrance Award (2009)
- Cambridge European Trusts Scholarship (2009)
- Trinity Hall Dr Cooper Law Studentship (2009)
- Trinity Hall Alan King-Hamilton Bursary for Excellence (2009)
- Winner of the Cambridge University De Smith Mooting Competition (2009)
- Winner of the Trinity Hall Law Society Moot (2006 & 2009)
News
- Athena Markides, Chair of the Young Barristers’ Committee, to co-chair at the Annual Bar & Young Bar Conference 2019
- Robert Stokell, Anna Laney, Daniel Shaw, and Athena Markides to lecture on advocacy at the University of Cambridge
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Articles
Qualifications
- BA (Hons), University of Cambridge (2005 – 2009)
- Erasmus Exhange, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands (2007 – 2008)
- LLM, University of Cambridge (2009 – 2010)
- BPTC, BPP Law School (2010 – 2011)
Memberships
- COMBAR
- LCLCBA
- PNBA
- PIBA
- TECBAR
- European Circuit
Athena is also an elected member of the Bar Council and a member of the Young Bar Committee and EU Law Committee.
Recommendations
“Athena is incredibly detailed and thorough and always manages to identify the key issues be they commercial or technical at a very early stage. Her advocacy and in particular communication is excellent. Athena is a go-to barrister.”
Legal 500, 2024
“A joy to work with – she has a great capacity for hard work, while remaining enthusiastic and responsive, regardless of pressure. Very bright and can be relied upon to produce work of very high quality within the required time frame.”
Legal 500, 2022
“Very bright, extremely conscientious and hardworking; she picks up issues and absorbs large volumes of information quickly and provides accurate, timely advice.”
Legal 500, 2021
