Atkin Chambers
Barristers
William Haslam
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Position
William Haslam joined Atkin Chambers as a tenant in September 2024, following successful completion of his pupillage. William has trained in Chambers’ core practice areas of construction, engineering and infrastructure, energy and utilities, and general commercial disputes. William has experience of all stages of litigation and arbitration and has worked with a variety of standard form construction contracts including JCT and NEC forms.
William studied Geography at the University of Cambridge where he came first overall in his year and won numerous prizes and scholarships. William spent a year as a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard University, where he studied at Harvard Law School before obtaining a distinction in his GDL and Bar Course studies. William was also awarded the Society of Construction Law’s Hudson Essay Prize.
Prior to joining Chambers, William spent a year working as a judicial assistant to Lord Justice Coulson in the Court of Appeal. During this time he worked on a number of construction, insurance, procurement and commercial cases including URS v BDW [2023] EWCA Civ 772; Kajima Construction v Children’s Ark Partnership [2023] EWCA Civ 292 and Sudlows v Global Switch Estates [2023] EWCA Civ 292.
William also gained experience as a visiting law lecturer at University of Greenwich and as a paralegal in a specialist education law firm where he represented clients in the First-Tier Tribunal.
William is also experienced with a range of County Court matters, including applications for default judgment, strike out and full trials.