Fountain Court Chambers

Barrister of 31 years call (silk for 11 years) with a broad based commercial litigation expertise, covering: international and domestic arbitration; banking; civil fraud; insurance/reinsurance; and professional negligence. Derrick also sits as an LCIA and DIAC arbitrator.

Recent significant cases include acting for:

• Investors suing Link in respect of the alleged failure to supervise Neil Woodford and his fund;
• Primary Insurers against Excess Layer in respect of who should bear the costs of the Grenfell Inquiry.
• Shareholders suing a top Cayman law firm for breach of fiduciary duty in preferring the interests of another client over that of the Fund;
• Purchasers of a company suing the vendors for deceit and breach of warranty under an SPA;
• A big accounting firm in respect of a negligence claim;
• an SME pursing a loss of a chance claim in respect of having been cut out of a maturing business opportunity;
• an individual investor defrauded by her former financial adviser;
• Insurers in a claim for the return of profit commission from a broker;
• A middle eastern borrower against a major western bank in respect of the terms of an Islamic finance deal.

Called 1990; Silk 2010; member of Fountain Court 1991 to date; Joint Editor of Damages section on Simpson on Professional Negligence since 2004.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1988 MA First Class); Harvard Law School (1989 LLM); New York Bar (1989).

Interests include Post War British cinema, cycling for Le Cure.