Lucy is a leading KC specialising in construction, engineering, energy and shipbuilding, with a particular focus on projects involving complex factual, technical and contractual disputes. She has extensive experience of high value, high profile litigation and arbitration in relation to major infrastructure projects, including PFI, and energy projects from windfarms to nuclear. Her practice includes claims for and against construction professionals in these sectors and project-related issues such as insurance, bonds and guarantees. She is also instructed in relation to Building Liability Orders and Remediation Contribution Orders. Lucy also advises on and acts in adjudications, from referral stage to enforcement. She is described in the directories as “an out-and-out star”, “a dream to work with”, “a gifted legal mind” and “a brilliant advocate with a superb way of persuading judges”.
She is always in demand for her forceful advocacy, commercial approach and “stellar” intellectual ability. Lucy has extensive experience in the Business and Property Courts (both TCC and Commercial Court) and has appeared at appellate level. She divides her practice approximately equally between UK litigation and international arbitration. She has acted in multiple disputes in civil code jurisdictions and is familiar with the standard forms often used internationally such as FIDIC and, increasingly, NEC, and with international parties and tribunals.
Lucy’s energy and shipbuilding practice and her experience of the offshore standard forms are reflected in her co-editorship (with Mr Justice Constable) of the leading text in its field, Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering (3rd Edn., published August 2024). She is also co-editor of the looseleaf Keating on JCT and author of the Construction Professionals chapter in Keating on Construction Contracts.
Lucy is nominated in 2024 for the Legal 500’s Professional Negligence Silk of the Year. She was elected a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 2023 and was one of The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” in 2021. She has been top ranked in Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal in construction, energy, international arbitration and professional negligence for many years and is a Who’s Who Legal Thought Leader in Construction in 2023 and 2024. As a junior, she won Chambers and Partners’ Construction Junior of the Year in 2013 and was nominated again in 2015.
Called 2001; Gray’s Inn, Prince of Wales Scholar 2001; pupillage and tenancy at 2 Temple Gardens 2001-04; tenancy Keating Chambers 2004; Silk 2018.
TECBAR; COMBAR; Society of Construction Law.
Ryde High School; University of Manchester (1998 BA Hons English Language and 1st class); Metropolitan University of Manchester (2000 PgDL); Inns of Court School of Law (2001 Bar Vocational Course Very Competent).
Reading.