Barristers | Construction & Engineering

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...

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...

Kim Franklin KC
Year of Call: 1984

Chartered Arbitrator, Construction Adjudicator and DAB Kim Franklin KC is a recognised specialist in the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors.  She acts as a full-time arbitrator,...

Isabel Hitching KC
Year of Call: 1992

Isabel Hitching is a commercial silk with a long-established expertise in the issues arising out of large-scale, complex construction and technology projects.  With expertise not only in the...

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...

Anna Laney KC
Year of Call: 1998

Anna Laney KC is a leading construction barrister, specialising in technically complex infrastructure, engineering and related insurance disputes. During the course of her career, she has acted on a...

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...

Robert Stokell
Year of Call: 1995

Robert Stokell specialises in substantial construction and engineering disputes, product liability, professional negligence and property damage. He is well placed to advise where a case raises issues...

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...

Susan Lindsey
Year of Call: 1997

Chartered arbitrator, Accredited mediator, Chartered architect Susan's practice is focussed on dispute resolution in the context of the built environment. Susan has experience of a wide spectrum of...

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...

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...

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 has been practising for over 17 years, and has spent the last 14 years specialising in construction and engineering disputes. He has experience of litigation, arbitration, adjudication, and...

James Sharpe
Year of Call: 2009

James' practice spans a broad range of commercial disputes with particular focus on insurance and reinsurance, professional liability and commercial chancery work. A confident advocate and a team...

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, construction,...

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 liability, insurance, and commercial disputes. He appears frequently in the High Court, has appeared before the Court of Appeal, and is regularly...

Nicola Atkins
Year of Call: 2012

Nicola specialises in professional liability, construction and insurance disputes, with a particular interest in claims involving construction professionals including acting both for and against main...

Sahana Jayakumar
Year of Call: 2014

Sahana Jayakumar joined Crown Office Chambers in 2021 and has a  practice encompassing construction disputes, property damage and commercial litigation and arbitration. Sahana has particular...

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...

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 with a particular interest in personal injury, clinical negligence, inquests and inquiries, and health and safety. In her civil practice Meredith regularly appears in...

Frederick Simpson
Year of Call: 2018

Frederick is an in-demand junior practising primarily in construction, insurance, professional liability, product liability and property damage. He is ranked as a leading junior in professional...

Toby Chandler
Year of Call: 2019

Toby is regularly instructed in all aspects of chambers’ commercial, insurance and re-insurance and construction work. He is regularly involved, both led and unled, on substantial litigation in the...

Mariusz Rumun
Year of Call: 2019

Mariusz Rumun practises across Chambers' core areas, with a focus on insurance, commercial disputes, professional liability, property damage, product liability, and construction. Mariusz is...

Henk Soede
Year of Call: 2019

Henk maintains a broad practice across Chambers’ areas of work, with a particular focus on construction, professional liability, property damage, personal injury (particularly international claims...

Hamish Fraser
Year of Call: 2021

Hamish has developed a successful practice across Chambers’ core areas, particularly in commercial disputes, insurance, professional negligence, inquests and inquiries, property damage, and product...

Benedict Morillo
Year of Call: 2021

Benedict has a broad commercial practice. He has specialist expertise in insurance, construction, professional liability, product liability, and property damage matters, and he particularly welcomes...

Alethea Redfern
Year of Call: 2021

Alethea Redfern specialises in construction, insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, property damage and commercial disputes. She has successfully appeared in the High Court both as sole...

Sophie Ashford
Year of Call: 2021

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

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 Lacey accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with an emphasis on insurance & reinsurance, professional liability, construction & engineering, property damage,...

Liana Turner
Year of Call: 2021

Liana Turner accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with an emphasis on insurance & reinsurance, professional negligence, construction, commercial, property damage,...

Colleen Cumbers
Year of Call: 2023

Colleen Cumbers accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular emphasis on commercial disputes, construction, insurance & reinsurance, professional negligence,...

Donny Surtani
Year of Call: 2020

Donny Surtani specialises in commercial and financial disputes, with a focus on international arbitration. His areas of practice include financial services, joint ventures and M&A disputes,...