London Bar
Commercial litigation
Leading silk3Rebecca Sabben-Clare KC – 7 King’s Bench Walk
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Rebecca Sabben-Clare KC
7 King's Bench Walk, London
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Position
Rebecca has a wide-ranging commercial practice, focussing particularly on insurance/reinsurance, accountants’ liability, international arbitration and general commercial disputes.
Rebecca is listed as a leading English silk in the Chambers & Partners UK and Global Directories and the Legal 500 Directory. In 2022, she won Professional Negligence Silk of the Year at the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 awards. She is shortlisted as Insurance Silk of the Year for this year’s Chambers and Partners awards. The directories describe her as “incredibly bright” and “very talented”, praising her ability as “a fearless advocate…” and recognising that she is “very cool, calm and easy to work with”. She is listed as a leading silk in the fields of commercial dispute resolution, insurance/reinsurance, international arbitration, professional discipline and professional negligence.
Current and recent cases include: instructions in relation to Carillion; ABN Amro v RSA (Comm Ct and Court of Appeal: insurance dispute concerning cocoa fraud); Manchester Building Society v. Grant Thornton (Supreme Court: scope of duty); various insurance and reinsurance disputes arising from the Covid-19 pandemic; aviation insurance disputes.
Career
Called 1993; Silk 2012.
Memberships
COMBAR (former executive committee member).
Education
Winchester College; New College, Oxford (MA).
Mentions
London Bar
Insurance and reinsurance
Leading silk1Rebecca Sabben-Clare KC – 7 King’s Bench Walk ‘Rebecca is very gifted technically, she is also very hard working and has a very rounded view of the issues: sitting as an arbitrator assists in this. She has very good judgement and a very impressive client manner.’
London Bar
International arbitration: counsel
Leading silk3Rebecca Sabben-Clare KC –7 King’s Bench Walk ‘She has a wealth of experience in the insurance field. She gives excellent, practical advice. She is very easy to work with and pleasant to deal with. A very good team member and leader.’
London Bar
Professional negligence
Leading silk1Rebecca Sabben-Clare KC – 7 King’s Bench Walk ‘She has a forensic analytical approach coupled with highly impressive cross-examination skills.’