7 King's Bench Walk

Dave Barnard accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ areas of practice, including aviation, insurance and reinsurance, shipping, commodities, civil fraud, and professional negligence. He has a keen interest in shipping and insurance; he became an Associate of the Association of Average Adjusters in 2022, following his completion of exams concerning the Marine Insurance Act 1906 and the Insurance Act 2015.

Dave accepts unled instruction, and he has appeared alone in the County Court. He particularly enjoys instructions which seek injunctive or other interlocutory relief; he has previously been involved in obtaining freezing orders, third-party costs orders, and various forms of disclosure orders.

Dave’s current and recent instructions include:

• Commercial Court proceedings concerning aviation insurance.
• London-seated LMAA arbitration concerning an international sale of commodities for US$20 million.
• Bermuda form arbitration, applying New York law.

Prior to joining Chambers, Dave read law at the University of Nottingham, where he achieved a First, and studied for a year at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. During his year in Vancouver, Dave acted pro bono for various individual clients in the provincial and criminal courts in British Columbia.