Barristers | Professional Liability

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...

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,...

Farrah Mauladad KC
Year of Call: 1999

Farrah Mauladad KC specialises in clinical negligence, personal injury, healthcare regulatory law and product liability matters. She has extensive experience in Court and is often instructed in cases...

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

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...

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...

Catherine Foster
Year of Call: 1986

Catherine practices in the areas of general personal injury, disease litigation, occupational stress, child sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, modern slavery, professional negligence, product...

Peter Morton
Year of Call: 1988

Though he has acted for both Claimants and Defendant in the past, Peter Morton’s practice is now entirely for Defendants and consists of industrial disease litigation, catastrophic injury cases,...

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, insurance-related advice and litigation, product liability, professional negligence and property damage. He is well...

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...

Jamie Clarke
Year of Call: 1995

Jamie Clarke has more than 25 years’ experience in his core practice areas of catastrophic / utmost severity personal injury litigation, industrial disease (including asbestos, NIHL, HAVS, workplace...

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...

Jack Ferro
Year of Call: 1998

Jack Ferro has practised at Crown Office Chambers since 1999, focusing on personal injury, clinical negligence, product liability and industrial disease. He has developed special expertise and...

Julian Horne
Year of Call: 1998

Julian Horne is experienced in a wide range of civil litigation with a particular emphasis on interlocutory and trial advocacy. His practice encompasses personal injury including product liability,...

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...

Sandesh Singh
Year of Call: 2004

Sandesh Singh specialises in criminal regulatory law, inquests and professional disciplinary law. He is known for his thorough preparation, attention to detail and incisive advocacy. He is listed as a...

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 Property Damage and Professional Negligence. She is...

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...

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...

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, 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...

Nicola Atkins
Year of Call: 2012

Nicola specialises in professional liability, construction and insurance disputes, with a particular interest in claims involving construction professionals and both civil and regulatory proceedings...

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...

Katie Sage
Year of Call: 2014

Katie is an established criminal regulatory, inquests and inquiries practitioner and is ranked as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners in these areas. She has experience acting in criminal...

Katie Ayres
Year of Call: 2014

Katie 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 in the...

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...

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,...

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...

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, professional negligence, property damage, insurance, 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...