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Isabel Barter

Isabel Barter

Career

Isabel practises in Professional Negligence, Product Liability, Property Damage, Group Litigation work, Commercial Fraud, Commercial Dispute Resolution and Private International Law.

She frequently appears as sole Counsel against KCs. In addition, she has been lead junior in complex cases for several years, is adept at dealing with technical expert evidence, and has a real aptitude for absorbing large amounts of information quickly.

She was nominated for Professional Negligence Junior of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2022, and for Group Litigation and Consumer Junior of the Year at the Legal 500 Awards 2022 and 2023. She is recommended in the directories as a leading practitioner for Professional Negligence, Product Liability, Property Damage and Group Litigation work.

Isabel is Associate Editor of, as well as expert contributor to, Mark Simpson, Professional Negligence and Liability (Informa, updated twice yearly), and she is an expert contributor on product liability to Howard Palmer KC, Property Damage (Bloomsbury, 2023). She is also joint General Editor of Bloomsbury’s ‘Journal of Professional Negligence’, published quarterly, and a member of the PNBA Executive Committee.

Prior to coming to the bar, Isabel worked in the charitable sector. She graduated from Cambridge with a BA (Hons) in History. She was also a Major Scholar of the Inner Temple.

Mentions

London Bar

Group litigation

Leading junior1
Isabel Barter – 4 New Square Chambers ‘Isabel is exceptional. She operates at a level far beyond her call and out-performs silks and senior juniors at that level. Both her clarity of expression and composure make her oral and written advocacy particularly polished and persuasive, and is quite clearly primed and ready to take on that role more formally in silk in the very near future.’
London Bar

Product liability

Leading junior1
Isabel Barter – 4 New Square Chambers 'Very able junior who works on some big-hitting cases.  She is very capable.'
London Bar

Professional negligence

Leading junior2
Isabel Barter – 4 New Square Chambers ‘Isabel is incisive and articulate. She brings an astute legal mind to the cases and she is phenomenally hardworking.’