Insurance and reinsurance
Leading Juniors
Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Sandra is reliable and responsive. She has a great client-facing manner and she always comes up with the goods when needed.’
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Keir has outstanding ability to analyse complex issues and provide clear legal and, just as importantly, strategic advice. He is very responsive and a pleasure to work with.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Alex is a real expert on insurance and reinsurance work, and can trusted to advise on matters which might otherwise be sent to a silk.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Very clever but also approachable and patient. Understands the questions clients will ask and present complicated concepts in a way that clients can understand. First-class attention to detail but also understands the bigger picture. Very responsive but manages expectation well when she is in trial.’
7 King’s Bench Walk
'Tim is an excellent, hands on senior junior who is a delight to work with. A team player who will roll up his sleeves and get stuck in. Calm and persuasive in manner and with a firm grasp of the commercial reality of a situation, he is excellent with clients.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
'Simon's strengths include knowledge and experience of insurance matters.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Marcus is an excellent senior junior. His responsiveness, attention to detail, clear legal and strategic advice are all of the highest quality.’
4 Pump Court
‘James is very good to work with. His analysis is first class, he is a great team player and whose advice and support reflects a deep understanding of clients' commercial drivers.'
Crown Office Chambers
‘Easy to deal with both for solicitors and for clients. User-friendly and good legal analysis.’
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Very accomplished in insurance law having a practical approach.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Excellent on the law, and on the facts, with solicitors and with the clients. Just excellent all-round.’
Keating Chambers
‘Alexandra is all-round an excellent barrister. She is very approachable and always makes herself available. She is extremely astute and able to identify pertinent issues quickly, which allows solicitors to get to the heart of any issues without delay.’
4 New Square
‘Very bright and incisive, good at getting out of a hole and cutting through to the heart of the matter. Excellent analysis and comes up with novel points.'
Crown Office Chambers
‘Suzanne is a very capable insurance coverage counsel, and pleasant to deal with.’
Quadrant Chambers
‘Ben is a first-class communicator. His written and oral advice is clear, straightforward, and easy to digest. Ben has a great ability to understand and get to grips with complex matters and issues quickly, and he always delivers considered and commercial advice. He is the go-to junior for marine insurance coverage work.’
2 Temple Gardens
‘Excellent subject specific knowledge, well organised and good to deal with.'
3 Verulam Buildings
‘William is simply brilliant. He is fantastically bright, amazingly hard working and great to work with.’
Enterprise Chambers
'Celso is very experienced in the insurance market and knows very well the usual policies and coverages. He is undisputedly specialised in complex insurance cases and intricate contracts.'
Crown Office Chambers
‘Very pragmatic and very good with clients – approachable and excellent at explaining difficult concepts and issues to lay clients in a way that they understand without feeling patronised.’
Fountain Court Chambers
‘Max is very personable and engaging, and give succinct and digestible advice to clients on tricky issues.’
2 Temple Gardens
‘Impressive. Very good on paper and analysis. Strong advocacy. Very easy to work with.'
Crown Office Chambers
‘Commitment, an ability to analyze a case thoroughly and to express his views clearly and logically on paper. Supportive and an all round good barrister. Terrific on paper.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Anna has a strong eye for detail and provides clear, practical advice. She is contactable and easy to deal with. She is able to think quickly and deal with changing circumstances both on paper and at court.’
4 New Square
‘Miles is simply superb. His mastery of the developing law in this area is nothing short of astonishing.’
3 Verulam Buildings
‘Her great strengths are her focus, her ability to get the work done and her judgement. She is always on top of the issues, always pulls out all the stops and is an invaluable sounding board, never afraid to express her own opinions but always a team player.’
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘He is extremely hard-working and able to produce first class written material in short order. His work ethic and quality is unrivaled. He is also a good cross-examiner and has a bright future ahead.’
Twenty Essex
'A great brain, incredibly organised and efficient. A calming influence and a real team player.'
2 Temple Gardens
‘Very bright and great with his case law. Thinks about things carefully and is very responsive. Clients like him.'
Fountain Court Chambers
‘Outstanding analytical mind, which is able to identify, assess and provide solutions to difficult legal problems. Christopher is able to assimilate and deploy quickly highly complex material.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Liz has a very sharp intellect and her attention to detail is outstanding. She is an absolute pleasure to work with.'
Crown Office Chambers
‘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.’
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Clever, responsive, loyal, reliable, enormously diligent and a tremendously safe pair of hands.’
4 Pump Court
‘Martyn is an incredibly capable junior and gets up to speed very quickly with the issues at hand. His analytical and drafting skills are very impressive.’
4 New Square
‘Ben is commercial, pragmatic and efficient. He is incredibly responsive and produces written work of a very high standard. He’s very user-friendly and accessible and provides succinct advice on complex issues.’
2 Temple Gardens
‘Reliable and helpful. Good drafting skills and effective in Court, on what are often sensitive cases where the claimant has very strong views.'
4 New Square
‘Carl is extremely user-friendly. He is accessible and provides speedy, well considered and straightforward advice.’
3 Verulam Buildings
‘Theo is both hard working and thorough. He always provides a fresh and analytically sophisticated view of difficult problems. In court he is a forceful and effective advocate.’
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Very user-friendly and responsive and a pleasure to deal with, Harry is so very bright and produces reliable work product.’
Simon Paul
Fountain Court Chambers ‘Simon is a brilliant junior. His written work is superb. Clients completely trust him and rely on him heavily - his advocacy is clear and convincing. He is highly intelligent and a good pick for anyone with a high value and difficult case.’
4 New Square Chambers
‘Tom has an impressive knowledge of insurance law and expertise in policy coverage analysis. He provides advice on complex policy coverage points in a manner that is clear, succinct and easily digestible, yet is very clearly on top of the detail.’
Gatehouse Chambers
'He excels at presenting legal solutions diplomatically, succinctly and efficiently.'
4 Pump Court
‘Alice is a star for insurance related work. She has a clear grasp of the area, in terms of knowledge, tactical awareness, commercial realities and client priorities. In addition, she is a strong advocate. She is a delight to work with.’
2 Temple Gardens
‘Strong legal mind and knowledge tempered by commercial acumen, attention to detail and thoroughness, clear and concise written advice, tenacious but fair and respectful in their approach to advocacy.'
7 King's Bench Walk
'Danny is exceptionally smart and a real problem solver. He is good at seeing things from different angles.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Exceptionally good. Very responsive throughout. Very careful and diligent and very good detail.'
Quadrant Chambers
‘Joseph is a first-class barrister. His dedication and unwavering work ethic makes him an invaluable asset. His expertise in both civil fraud and contempt complement each other and often overlap, enabling him to provide sound advice from both a practical and holistic perspective. He is passionate, hardworking and quickly able to understand the key issues whilst constantly identifying weaknesses in his opponent’s case. Furthermore, he is a pleasure to work with and has a very bright future ahead of him.’
Twenty Essex
‘Joshua is very responsive and thorough and is a pleasure to deal with. He adds commercial and practical input to his technical knowledge.'
2 Temple Gardens
‘George is extremely user friendly. He is a real team player. He is excellent at understanding the technical detail and testing the expert evidence. His advice is always clear cogent and concise. He is willing to take on cases at short notice and provides an excellent service.'
4 New Square
'Anthony provides clear and well-reasoned advice and is a pleasure to work with.'
4 New Square
‘Diarmuid provides clear and strategic advice. His legwork while preparing for arguments in outstanding. Given the time restrictions in arbitrations, he ensures time is utilised wisely, focusing on the primary points. He is effective in his verbal presentations and gauges what the arbitrator sees as concerning issues, and deals with them in an entirely simple and cogent manner.’
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Henry is both analytical and tactical. His drafting is clear, persuasive and direct. Henry also gives practical advice. He has a good sense of humour and always goes the extra mile.'
4 Pump Court
‘Rani is truly outstanding. She is highly intelligent and able to analyse complicated claims in a forensic and clear way, and is also great to work with. Rani is very responsive and provides clear and well thought through, practical advice.’
4 Pump Court
‘Peter is easily the most personable barrister I have ever worked with. He is responsive, user-friendly and is adept at getting to the nub of tricky issues.’
7 King's Bench Walk
‘Outstandingly capable and grasps the issues extremely quickly. Jason produces excellent work product with exceptional turnaround time.’
Crown Office Chambers
'An extremely intelligent junior who distils complex information quickly, and is very calm and collected at all times.'
7 King’s Bench Walk
‘Richard is a go-to barrister for advice on discrete legal points.’
Rising stars
Rising stars at the Bar are defined as barristers between four and eight years’ call who are seen as up-and-coming members of the Bar in their respective practice areas by clients and peers alike. They will already be instructed in high-profile, complex, and high-value contentious and non-contentious matters, working with and opposite more experienced leading counsel.
Crown Office Chambers
‘Freddy is very hard-working and has a great demeanour. Freddy’s drafting is exceptionally clear and easy to follow.’
Andrew Brown
Crown Office Chambers