Keating Chambers

Callum regularly represents clients in the High Court, County Court and in adjudications in his own right. He is currently being led in international arbitration. Recent highlights include acting:

• as sole counsel in an ongoing c. £3 million professional negligence claim against a project manager in connection with a failed restaurant project (High Court, TCC);
• in an ongoing multi-million-euro international arbitration concerning the use of a pioneering anaerobic digestion technology at a waste-to-energy plant (led by Fionnuala McCredie KC and William Webb KC);
• as sole counsel in a two-day trial in the County Court at Cambridge, following which Callum’s client received a substantial settlement payment prior to handing down of the judgment;
• on behalf of a public authority in a multi-million-pound adjudication and subsequent arbitration concerning the authority’s entitlement to make significant deductions from a maintenance contractor’s monthly payments under a long-term PFI contract (led by Paul Buckingham KC);
• as sole counsel in a c. £1.7 million adjudication concerning a project manager’s entitlement to payment of a development profit fee, decided in favour of Callum’s client;
• on behalf of a shipbuilder in two separate international arbitrations concerning the termination of two construction contracts for state-of-the-art semi-submersible offshore drilling rigs (led by Adam Constable KC, now Constable J);
• on behalf of an investment fund in TCC proceedings concerning a multi-million-pound retail and residential development, in which the fund was successful in the Court of Appeal (led by Jonathan Selby KC – see [2022] 1 WLR 878); and
• on behalf of a public authority in TCC proceedings concerning unsafe cladding and other fire safety defects in residential tower blocks (led by Simon Hughes KC).

Callum accepts instructions to advise, draft pleadings and represent clients in relation to their commercial disputes, with a focus on construction and engineering contracts and associated professional negligence matters.