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Stephen Innes
Position
Stephen’s practice is in commercial dispute resolution, with his main areas of specialism being professional liability, professional discipline/regulatory and costs. Experience of particular types of litigation, such in employment, personal injury, insurance, consumer credit and chancery, proves invaluable in the context of professional liability work.
A key area of expertise, on which Stephen lectures with Ben Patten QC, is property fraud claims against solicitors, involving in particular cyber and “Friday afternoon” fraud.
In costs, Stephen specialises in solicitor client disputes. He is frequently brought into large commercial litigation to deal with discrete costs issues such as budgeting and CCMCs, security for costs, third party costs and wasted costs orders.
Stephen is a member of the Executive Committee of the Professional Negligence Bar Association and a member of the London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association. Stephen is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn and an advocacy trainer. He is a member of the Wellbeing at the Bar Working Group.
Mediation and adjudication
Stephen Innes is an accredited mediator and conducts mediations in his specialist areas of professional liability and costs. He also carries out determinations in costs. He is a trained and accredited adjudicator, part of the PNBA’s panel.
Direct Access
Stephen accepts clients under the Bar’s direct access scheme, and further details can be found on his direct access website verycivilbarrister.co.uk
CFAs
In appropriate cases, Stephen accepts instructions under Conditional Fee Agreements.
Career
Qualified 2000, Gray’s Inn.
Memberships
Commercial Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Education
Oundle School, Peterborough, 1993; New College, Oxford, (Classics, 1997); City University London (CPE 1999); ICSL (BVC, 2000).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Stephen Innes –4 New Square ‘He has excellent attention to detail. His drafting is excellent and he’s a very good advocate.’
London Bar > Costs and litigation funding
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Stephen Innes –4 New Square ‘Stephen is incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to costs, particularly where there are difficult or unusual points to be taken. He is hard-working and methodical, making difficult points easy to understand. His advocacy is clear and very persuasive.’
‘Simply the best costs set in the country’, 4 New Square Chambers offers in-depth expertise at every level of call and across all aspects of costs and litigation funding, with particular areas of experience including wasted and non-party costs, funding arrangements, security for costs applications, and non-contentious advisory work. Nicholas Bacon KC, Robert Marven KC, Simon Teasdale and Stephen Innes all acted in Diag Human v Volterra Fietta, with this significant case about whether severance is available to save an otherwise enforceable conditional fee agreement heading from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. In Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust v Luke Hoskin, Benjamin Williams KC, Roger Mallalieu KC and Pippa Manby appeared in a case which now progresses to the Court of Appeal to clarify the principle concerning recoverability of agency fees in personal injury claims. Marven KC also appeared on the opposite side to Mallalieu KC and Teasdale in Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP v Kenig, a Court of Appeal case concerning if a beneficiary to a will can later challenge solicitors’ costs even though they have been agreed and paid by the executor.