Barristers | Commercial

Michael Kent KC
Year of Call: 1975

Michael Kent KC has an extensive practice in a range of common law fields including personal injuries and disease work; liability insurance; product liability; nuisance and property disputes involving...

Michael Curtis KC
Year of Call: 1982

Michael Curtis KC specialises in commercial, construction & engineering, insurance, property damage, professional negligence and product liability. He is General Editor and one of the co-authors...

David Platt KC
Year of Call: 1987

David Platt KC specialises in occupational disease, personal injury, insurance, health and safety, sports, abuse and inquest work. He also specialises in group litigation.  He undertakes most forms...

Ben Quiney KC
Year of Call: 1998

Recommendations In the recent editions of Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 Ben is identified as a Leading KC in his core areas of work, such as Insurance, Property Damage, Construction and...

Andrew Smith KC
Year of Call: 1988

Andrew Smith KC has over 30 years of experience of litigation in courts at all levels. He has practised at the Scottish Bar (call 1988, silk 2002) and since 2006 at the English Bar. He took silk in...

Kim Franklin KC
Year of Call: 1984

Kim Franklin KC is a recognised specialist in the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors.  She acts as a full-time arbitrator, dispute board member and adjudicator, resolving disputes...

Isabel Hitching KC
Year of Call: 1992

Isabel Hitching is a specialist in commercial, construction and engineering, and related insurance, professional negligence and property damage fields. Reflecting her strength in all these areas she...

Daniel Shapiro KC
Year of Call: 1999

Daniel Shapiro KC is recognised as “ferociously bright” with “beguiling advocacy skills”. He has extensive trial and appellate advocacy experience in a wide range of commercial litigation,...

Andrew Davis KC
Year of Call: 1996

Andrew specialises in personal injury (particularly claims which are high value / complex), product liability, commercial and IT, insurance and property damage. His approach combines getting firmly to...

Crispin Winser KC
Year of Call: 2003

Crispin Winser KC specialises in construction, engineering, energy, insurance, professional liability and general commercial litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution both in the UK and...

Martyn Berkin
Year of Call: 1966

Martyn Berkin specialises in commercial contracts, recovery of assets including freezing orders, constructive and resulting trusts, enforcement of foreign judgments. His practice is widespread in...

John Stevenson
Year of Call: 1975

John Stevenson main areas of practice are clinical negligence, insurance and professional negligence. Other significant areas of work are arbitration, commercial law, construction and personal...

John Greenbourne
Year of Call: 1978

John Greenbourne's main areas of practice are professional negligence (chiefly concerned with insurance services, legal advice, property valuation and construction, education and clinical treatment);...

Julian Field
Year of Call: 1980

Julian Field is a senior junior with a commercial practice encompassing property damage, insurance, product liability, contract and tort, commercial fraud and professional negligence. He began his...

Steven Coles
Year of Call: 1983

Steven Coles is regularly instructed in a wide range of insurance-related cases, often policy coverage disputes, also defence of third party claims, and insurers’ subrogated recovery claims –...

James Medd
Year of Call: 1985

James Medd's practice focuses on claims relating to insurance, property damage, product liability and construction. He is consistently ranked in the major legal directories as a leading junior in...

Dermot Woolgar
Year of Call: 1988

Dermot Woolgar has an extensive and diverse civil and commercial practice, with particular expertise in the fields of international commercial arbitration, commercial law, construction and...

Jason Evans-Tovey
Year of Call: 1990

Jason is a litigator whose attention to detail, strong legal, commercial and strategic advice as well as extensive trial and appellate advocacy experience have won him many followers in several fields...

Suzanne Chalmers
Year of Call: 1995

Suzanne Chalmers specialises in insurance, professional negligence, property damage and personal injury as well as dealing with general commercial disputes. Her strength lies in her ability to...

Anna Laney
Year of Call: 1998

Anna Laney’s practice focusses on construction related matters, whether they be traditional employers’/contractors’ contractual claims, professional negligence disputes or insurance issues. ...

Alexander Macpherson
Year of Call: 2000

Alexander Macpherson specialises in a number of areas of common law and commercial litigation. Frequently his cases have an insurance angle, and he is regularly instructed by major national...

Charles Pimlott
Year of Call: 2001

Charles Pimlott specialises in construction and energy disputes, professional negligence and commercial litigation. Charles is recognised by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 2023...

Michele De Gregorio
Year of Call: 2003

Michele De Gregorio has a broad commercial and common law practice, with many of his cases arising out of insurance related disputes, in the fields of construction and engineering, professional...

Peter Houghton
Year of Call: 2005

Peter is an experienced junior with a thriving practice focussing on group litigation, personal injury claims, industrial disease matters and associated areas of work. He has appeared in several...

Richard Sage
Year of Call: 2006

Richard Sage’s practice is in the fields of construction, professional negligence, insurance, product liability, property damage and general commercial litigation / arbitration. Richard has...

Daniel Shaw
Year of Call: 2007

Daniel was called to the Bar 15 years ago, and has specialised in construction and engineering disputes for more than 12 years. He has experience of litigation, arbitration, adjudication, and...

Helen Pagett
Year of Call: 2008

Helen Pagett specialises in personal injury, industrial disease, clinical negligence and inquests. She regularly appears in the County Court and High Court in both fast-track and multi-track matters,...

Jack Macaulay
Year of Call: 2009

Jack practices in the core areas of Chamber’s work, with particular focus on personal injury, clinical negligence, professional negligence, and property damage. He is on the Attorney General’s B...

Rory Holmes
Year of Call: 2009

Rory has specialised in PI and associated areas of work over the past 13 years. He is an experienced Junior with a caseload which overlaps a number of Chambers’ specialisms. He is instructed to...

James Sharpe
Year of Call: 2009

James is recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers UK in his core practice areas of Professional Negligence and Insurance and Reinsurance. He regularly appears in the High Court (mainly the TCC and...

Caroline McColgan
Year of Call: 2010

Caroline McColgan joined chambers in October 2011 following successful completion of her pupillage. Since then, she has developed a practice which is strongly focused on insurance, professional...

Carlo Taczalski
Year of Call: 2010

Carlo specialises in commercial, construction, insurance, and professional negligence matters. He has been recommended in the Legal 500 as a leading individual in a number of his core practice areas...

Athena Markides
Year of Call: 2011

Athena Markides practises in all of Chambers’ core areas of work and has particular expertise in insurance, commercial litigation, construction and property damage. She has a particular interest in...

Patrick Maxwell
Year of Call: 2011

Patrick specialises in construction, professional indemnity, insurance, and commercial disputes. He appears frequently in the High Court and has also appeared before the Court of Appeal. Patrick often...

Jack Murphy
Year of Call: 2013

Jack has a specialist criminal regulatory law, inquests, and personal injury practice. His expertise is recognised by rankings in the major legal directories, and he was appointed to the Attorney...

Adam Taylor
Year of Call: 2014

Adam specialises in sport and international arbitration, professional negligence, property damage, personal injury, insurance fraud, and inquests. Adam first practised at Crown Office Chambers from...

Sahana Jayakumar
Year of Call: 2014

Sahana joined Crown Office Chambers in 2021 and has broad practice encompassing construction disputes, corporate and personal insolvency, property damage and commercial litigation and arbitration....

Maurice Holmes
Year of Call: 2015

Maurice has a broad practice encompassing the majority of Chambers’ core specialisms, principally with a commercial focus. He has substantial advocacy experience as sole counsel before a variety of...

Douglas James
Year of Call: 2015

Douglas’s practice spans construction, insurance, professional liability and property damage – from heavy international arbitrations to domestic litigation, adjudications and ADR/CDR. Douglas...

Juliet Stevens
Year of Call: 2016

Juliet Stevens is a robust advocate with extensive trial experience. She is ranked in the Legal 500 as a Leading Junior, and acts for both claimants and defendants.  Regularly instructed at RTM and...

Michael Harper
Year of Call: 2016

Michael’s practice centres on professional negligence, insurance, property damage, product liability, commercial disputes and related areas. Michael is ranked by Legal 500 as a Rising Star for...

Joshua Brown
Year of Call: 2017

Josh’s practice covers the range of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular emphasis on commercial disputes, construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage. As well as...

Andrew Brown
Year of Call: 2017

Andrew has a broad commercial practice spanning construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage litigation. He has noted expertise in construction and engineering disputes and...

Meredith Daniel
Year of Call: 2017

Meredith has a broad practice across Chambers’ core areas including personal injury, clinical negligence, inquests, property damage, professional negligence and general commercial litigation. She...

Frederick Simpson
Year of Call: 2018

Frederick practises across chambers’ core areas, with a particular focus on construction, insurance, professional liability and property damage. He advises and represents clients in both the High...

Toby Chandler
Year of Call: 2019

Toby Chandler accepts instructions in all aspects of chambers’ commercial and construction work. He is regularly involved, both led and unled, on substantial litigation in the Commercial Court and...

Mariusz Rumun
Year of Call: 2019

Mariusz practises across Chambers’ core areas, with a particular focus on insurance, commercial disputes, professional liability, property damage, and construction. Such is the nature of Mariusz’s...

Hamish Fraser
Year of Call: 2021

Hamish has developed a successful practice across Chambers’ core areas, particularly in commercial disputes, construction, criminal regulatory, inquests and inquiries, insurance, property damage,...

Donny Surtani
Year of Call: 2020

Donny Surtani specialises in commercial and financial disputes, with a focus on international arbitration.  Prior to being called to the Bar, he spent 15 years at Herbert Smith Freehills, where he...

Annie Mackley
Year of Call: 2021

Annie accepts instructions across all Chambers’ core areas, with a particular interest in clinical negligence, personal injury, professional negligence and inquests and inquiries. She joined...

Benedict Morillo
Year of Call: 2021

Benedict is developing a strong insurance, professional liability, construction, property damage, and commercial practice. He is currently instructed (led by Daniel Shapiro KC and James Sharpe) in...

Alethea Redfern
Year of Call: 2021

Alethea is developing a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas, with an emphasis on insurance and reinsurance, construction, professional negligence, property damage, product...

Sophie Ashford
Year of Call: 2021

Sophie is developing a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas, with an emphasis on insurance, professional negligence, commercial disputes, property damage, inquests and inquiries,...

Bradley John-Davis
Year of Call: 2022

Bradley accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular interest in insurance and reinsurance, construction, commercial matters, professional negligence,...

William Lacey
Year of Call: 2022

William accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with an emphasis on insurance and reinsurance, professional liability, commercial disputes,  property damage, inquests and...