Krista Lee KC

Krista Lee QC is a specialist in engineering, construction, and energy disputes.  She is reputed for being ‘user-friendly, excellent at drafting and wonderfully quick’, ‘incisive’ and ’incredibly effective’. Her engineering background gives her an edge in understanding a range of technical and design issues. She is a fluent and attractive advocate, who enjoys presenting complex legal arguments. She usually appears unled, in the TCC, Chancery Division and Court of Appeal.

She has worked on projects concerning power stations, wind farms, electrical and gas infrastructure, telecoms, railways, chemical and food processing plants, entertainment venues, factories, shopping centres, housing projects and hotels both in the UK and overseas.

Krista has been involved in several high profile projects, including acting for: the contractor in the final account dispute relating to the design of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai; the MOD in a £100m dispute over the nuclear submarine berth in Faslane; the developer of the Durrat Al Bahrain artificial islands; the energy companies in claims concerning the engineering of the UK’s largest offshore wind farm; and the Olympic Delivery Authority.

Krista is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Chartered Arbitrator and is regularly appointed by the ICC as sole arbitrator and president. As counsel, she has experience of international and domestic arbitration using the ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA and other ad hoc rules. She has made arbitration applications and appeals to the High Court.

Krista has a working knowledge of all the major forms of construction/engineering contracts and partnering agreements including JCT, FIDIC, ICE, ACE, IMechE and RIBA. She has a particular interest in NEC and was the assistant editor and a major contributing author on Keating on NEC3.

University College, Oxford (1995 BA Hons Jurisprudence; 1997 BCL; 2001 MA); Open University (2003 BSc Hons engineering mechanics, materials, thermofluids, heat transfer, inorganic chemistry); Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Award Writing Examination; Associated Membership of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.