Sarah McCann > Gatehouse Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile
Gatehouse Chambers Offices
1 Lady Hale Gate, Gray’s Inn
WC1X 8BS
England
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Sarah McCann
Position
Sarah is a specialist Commercial and Insurance practitioner with a particular expertise in Civil Fraud, Construction and Engineering, Property Damage and Professional Negligence and Indemnity work both in the construction and non-construction field. Sarah also carries out a significant amount of insolvency work in those areas and has specific expertise in the insolvency of insurers and the cross-border effects of such insolvency.
Sarah has a wealth of experience in high value, technically and legally complex cases in all forums: litigation, arbitration (both domestic and international), adjudication and mediation. Sarah is also an active TECBAR accredited adjudicator and a CEDR accredited mediator.
Sarah is recommended as a leading junior in the Directories for her work in the fields of commercial litigation, construction, insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence and property damage work. She is described as a “clear orator, who is extremely knowledgeable and approachable”, noted for her “tenacious” advocacy and negotiating skills (Chambers UK) and her “analytical”, “pragmatic and commercial” approach (The Legal 500).
Sarah is the author of the leading textbook, Construction Insolvency, published by Sweet & Maxwell in 2022 as well as contributing to a number of other legal texts.
Career
Call: 2001
Languages
Basic French and German.
Memberships
- TECBAR
- Society of Construction Lawyers
- Professional Negligence Bar Association
- British Insurance Law Association
- COMBAR
- Chancery Bar Association
- London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association (committee member)
- ArbitralWomen
Education
- LLB (Law & German) – First Class
- MCIArb
- TECBAR Accredited Adjudicator
- CEDR Accredited Mediator
- ADR ODR Accredited Mediator
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sarah McCann – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Sarah is intelligent and very hardworking.’
London Bar > Construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sarah McCann – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Sarah’s drafting is very good quality, clear and persuasive. She has a good straightforward manner with clients and is commercial. She is also approachable and easy to work with.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Sarah McCann –Gatehouse Chambers ‘Sarah is hard working, intelligent, and user-friendly.’
Housing ‘a range of very good juniors’, Gatehouse Chambers handles a breadth of professional negligence claims, including matters relating to property transactions, construction, and financial services. Nigel Jones KC and Sarah McCann were instructed to act for the claimant in Enterprise Insurance Company Plc (in liquidation) v EY Limited, a high-value case alleging negligence on behalf of the auditors. Daniel Gatty and Jack Dillon are both experienced property litigators who also handle professional liability cases within the sector. Michael Wheater KC was appointed silk in March 2024. Wheater’s professional negligence practice is complemented by his expertise in construction; one of his recent cases was OCL Facades v Absolute Insurance Brokers in which he represented a specialist cladding contractor in a claim against its insurance broker.
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Sarah McCann – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Sarah is hard-working, conscientious and intelligent. She always makes herself available as and when necessary.’
Gatehouse Chambers houses a number of barristers with experience in insolvency cases, ranging from issues with director misfeasance, cross-border shareholder disputes, as well as disputed winding up petitions and unfair prejudice petitions. Within insurance insolvency, Sarah McCann is involved in a variety of cases, including a cross-border dispute that emerged as a result of Enterprise Insurance Company’s insolvency in Gibraltar. Sarah Clarke represents high-profile clients in a variety of claims, while Jonathan Titmuss is involved in multiple insolvency disputes. Charles Raffin and Ryan Hocking are also key names at the set.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Sarah McCann –Gatehouse Chambers ‘Sarah is intelligent and very hard-working She is also forthright and structured when undertaking advocacy.’
Gatehouse Chambers ‘offers a wide spectrum of expertise across commercial litigation’, encompassing issues such as international supply contract disagreements, warranty and indemnity claims, and joint venture disputes. In VH Invest and Airprofile v Moir and Oilsearch Limited and others, David Lewis KC is acting for the claimants, who allege breach of contract and misrepresentation relating to the development of patented technology used to measure airflow from wind turbines. In a complex multi-jurisdictional case, Nigel Jones KC and Sarah McCann are representing Riad Tawfiq Al Sadik in his claims of professional negligence against Clyde & Co, as well as two barristers and an offshore law firm, involving UAE, English, and Cayman laws.