Barristers | Insurance & Reinsurance

Alexander Antelme KC
Year of Call: 1993

Alexander Antelme KC is joint Head of Chambers. He specialises in the fields of product liability, clinical negligence, property damage, insurance and personal injury. His cases are of the highest...

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...

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...

Patrick Blakesley KC
Year of Call: 1993

Patrick Blakesley KC specialises in catastrophic personal injury and fatal accident claims; and related actions: insurance coverage and indemnity issues; other contractual issues; conflicts of laws;...

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...

Daniel Shapiro KC
Year of Call: 1999

Daniel (Danny) 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ivor Collett
Year of Call: 1995

Ivor’s practice covers commercial, professional liability and insurance disputes, with a particular focus on construction professionals and lawyers.  He is heavily involved in cases of impostor...

Paul Higgins
Year of Call: 1996

Paul Higgins specialises in the fields of Commercial Litigation, Insurance and Reinsurance, Personal Injury, Civil Fraud, Property Damage and Costs. He is recognised as an advocate possessing “an...

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...

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...

Elizabeth Boon
Year of Call: 2006

Recommendations In the recent editions of Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 Elizabeth is recognised in her core areas of work, such as Product Liability, Property Damage, and 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...

David Myhill
Year of Call: 2006

David has a specialist practice focussing on disputes in the fields of Product Liability, Insurance, Professional (including Clinical) Negligence and Property Damage. Whilst David is accomplished...

Gemma Witherington
Year of Call: 2008

For a number of years, Gemma has been recommended as a leading junior by Legal 500. She specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, insurance fraud, professional negligence, costs 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, 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 and Lexology (WWL) as a leading individual in a number of his...

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...

Adam Taylor
Year of Call: 2014

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

Katie Ayres
Year of Call: 2014

Katie Ayres practices in the areas of local authority liability, abuse law, clinical and professional negligence, insurance, product liability and property damage. She is recognised as a Rising Star...

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 is ranked as a leading junior by the directories in his core practice areas of professional negligence and insurance (and has been for a number of years). This is complemented by Michael’s...

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...

Mariusz Rumun
Year of Call: 2019

Mariusz is an “outstanding lawyer – extremely bright, immensely hard-working and a real pleasure to work with” (Legal 500, 2025). He practises in insurance, commercial disputes, professional...

Henk Soede
Year of Call: 2019

Henk maintains a broad commercial practice, with a particular focus on Construction & Engineering, Insurance, Product Liability, Professional Liability and Property Damage. He also has experience...

Hamish Fraser
Year of Call: 2021

Hamish is a highly regarded junior with a broad commercial practice and particular specialisms in insurance/re-insurance, professional negligence, product liability, and civil fraud disputes. He is...

Annie Mackley
Year of Call: 2021

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

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 has a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas with an emphasis on insurance law, commercial litigation, property damage, construction and professional negligence. Prior to...

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 is developing a busy and successful practice in the fields of construction & engineering, insurance & reinsurance, professional liability, property damage, and commercial...

Liana Turner
Year of Call: 2021

Liana joined Chambers as a tenant in October 2024, having successfully completed pupillage. She accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular emphasis on insurance...

Colleen Cumbers
Year of Call: 2023

Colleen Cumbers accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular emphasis on professional negligence, product liability, construction, property damage, insurance &...