4 Pump Court

Specialises in construction, energy, transport, construction professionals’ liability and insurance. First class advocacy and team-management skills honed in complex, high-value disputes on major construction and engineering, energy or transport projects, property damage disputes and all related insurance issues. Fiona’s success in the UK Supreme Court’s first ever construction adjudication case (Aspect Contracts v Higgins Construction, 2015) sealed her reputation as a first choice silk for heavyweight litigation, as well as big-ticket domestic and international arbitration. Enjoys leading multi-disciplinary teams of experts and lawyers to success for the client.

QC 2013.  Director, Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund Ltd.

Editor, 'Jackson and Powell on Professional Liability' (Construction Professionals chapter) 1993-2017.  Contributing author, ‘Construction Law, Costs and Contemporary Developments: Drawing the Threads Together (A Festschrift for Lord Justice Jackson)’ (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Italian

TECBAR (Committee Member 2006-2018), SCL, COMBAR, BILA, PNBA.

Jesus College, Cambridge (MA, LLM).

Skiing, mountaineering, Italy.