Paul Bury

Paul Bury is a highly experienced specialist in oral and written advocacy in:

domestic and international commercial construction, professional negligence, energy, insurance, offshore, infrastructure projects, and regulatory disputes.

He has been described as “razor-sharp…first class [and] a future star of the Construction Bar”.

Paul is regularly instructed as sole Counsel or as Junior Counsel in a broad range of disputes including highly complex and high-value High Court proceedings, international and domestic arbitration (in particular ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL), adjudication and mediation.

He has extensive advocacy experience in High Court trials, applications, procedural hearings, and adjudication work as well as in arbitrations and adjudications. Paul has been praised as “a skilled advocate, delivering effective oral arguments and cross-examination at hearings”.

Paul has gained particular expertise in cases involving issues of delay and disruption, defects, and contractual termination, and cases involving professional negligence and insurance issues, particularly those involving structural engineers, architects, cladding issues, and energy technology. Paul has extensive knowledge of the JCT, NEC, IChemE Red Book and FIDIC standard form contracts and of the offshore LOGIC and SAJ forms.

Some of the larger TCC matters he has been involved in include Energy Works (Hull) Ltd v MW High Tech Projects, Bluewater Energy Services BV v Mercon Steel Structures BV and Vivergo Fuels Ltd v Redhall Engineering Solutions Ltd and, in adjudication, Eurocom v Siemens. Paul’s international arbitration practice has seen him act for clients on projects based in jurisdictions such as South Africa, Dubai, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Qatar and Nigeria.

Having previously worked for a leading international law firm in Brussels on complex regulatory issues involving blue-chip international companies, Paul is adept at taking a commercial approach to legal issues and dispute resolution and receives praise from clients for his ability “to penetrate difficult details” with “an impressive grasp of the technical detail of a case”. He is recommended as a leading junior in the legal directories for construction, energy and professional negligence and is described as “undoubtedly a star of the future”.

College of Law, London – BVC 2007-2008 Exhibitioner, Inner Temple 2007 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Brussels 2005-2007 Pembroke College, Oxford University – BCL 2004-2005 Pembroke College, Oxford University – BA (Law) 2001-2004 Lenzie Academy, Glasgow 1995-2001