Construction

Alexander Nissen is an absolute standout heavyweight at the Bar and phenomenal talent when it comes to construction disputes.

He is a formidable addition to any legal team.

He is very much at the top of his game. You can always rely on Alexander to be all over the detail, leaving no stone unturned.

His opinions are always excellent.

I like his flamboyancy in court. He is a go-to for written advice.

Simon Hargreaves is very strong and client-friendly.

He is very strong and excellent.

Simon Hughes is always impressive, especially in hearings.

Adrian Williamson provides superb service and is robust and extremely intelligent. He is very calm under pressure and excellent at thinking on his feet.

She offers outstanding knowledge and use of the law, and has impeccable instincts for how the court will take a point.

Alex is a delight to work with, very knowledgeable, a strategic thinker and works hard to ensure the client gets excellent results.

She's fully committed to doing the best for her clients. You know you'll always get a first-class service with her.

Alexandra is a very impressive barrister. She is a safe pair of hands with an unmatched ability to provide flexible solutions and comprehensive advice for clients.

Alex is very strong, bright, responsive, has a good grasp of issues and is good on strategy.

David Thomas has a really nice manner with clients.

He is terrific and has a great clarity of thinking and insight. He has a good manner with lay clients.

His advocacy style is such that he is able to persuade the judges to understand his arguments.

He provides excellent experience in all things construction. He is an elegant and clinical advocate.

Jonathan is an excellent advocate. He is clear and persuasive and has a good manner with clients.

He's outstanding and his client service is second to none. He inspires confidence and is always available.

Jonathan Selby is a superstar. He is super with clients, incredibly hard-working and leads the team superbly. He gives great comfort to the client in stressful times.

Jonathan is very pragmatic and very direct, which is good. He has become one of the main fire safety cladding barristers.

Lucy Garrett is very engaged, responsive and very commercially aware.

She is a robust advocate who tenaciously puts forward arguments.

Piers's insight and intellect are second to none. He prepares meticulously and then makes the presentation of arguments looks effortless.

Piers Stansfield provides astute advice on technical interpretations and how they are to be applied to the wider strategic approach to preserving and promoting the client's interests.

She is very well prepared, picks up complex points quickly and understands well which points to push and which to leave.

She makes sure what she's pleading about is correct and is really rigorous.

She is able to integrate with the legal team and to successfully lead on major international infrastructure projects. She is good on her feet, and presents clearly and persuasively.

She provides excellent clarity of analysis. Thoughts and opinions are presented in a common-sense practical way, enabling solutions to be found.

Without question, Vincent is the definitive go-to KC for any construction dispute.

Vincent is intellectually brilliant.

She is impressive and effective as our advocate.

Alice is responsive and very good with the clients.

Alice is a great junior to work with. She's sharp, not afraid to roll up her sleeves and great with clients.

Alice is brilliant and one of the best barristers I have ever worked with. She is exceedingly smart and has excellent advocacy skills.

One of our favourites - she goes the extra mile and is always fighting for the client.

Brenna is an excellent barrister. I value her opinion, her ability to speak in a way my client understands and her willingness to get stuck in at the outset.

She is easy to work with, always available and always gets the work done to the highest level.

Charlie is approachable and commercial and always delivers clear and strategic advice.

Charlie Thompson has excellent practical experience with construction.

He is an excellent junior.

He is very responsive and happy to roll up his sleeves.

Charlie is fantastic and a real pleasure to work with. He is hard-working, technical and very client-friendly.

David Sheard is excellent on every level and one of the best Construction Bar specialists.

David is one of the most exceptional junior barristers I have worked with.

David is excellent with the team, understanding the wider commercial picture and really gets to grips with the detail of the case.

James is an impressive junior, consistently delivering technically excellent, commercial and comprehensive advice.

James is very prompt to respond and great on tactics and strategy.

James Thompson is very client-friendly and has an exceptional gift of getting into complicated issues and is excellent at bringing sense to expert evidence in a clear and concise way.

Justin is a brilliant advocate. I cannot speak highly enough of him. Justin would be the first barrister I would go to in the future with new instructions.

Justin has an acute legal mind, capable of presenting complex legal issues clearly and articulately.

Justin Mort is phenomenal in all areas, and through his exacting standards and knowledge brings up all other members of the legal team.

His advocacy was all round very impressive and effective. He does an excellent cross-examination.

Justin Mort is extremely bright, hard-working and seemingly available around the clock. Justin's advocacy is succinct, impactful and extremely effective.

He is a great advocate and very intelligent. He gives excellent advice.

His written opinion was excellent. He was available and easy to work with. I would instruct him again without question.

Paul Bury provides an incredibly good service. He always works tirelessly to support a client.

Paul really involves himself in the detail of the matter. He is thorough and incredibly responsive.

Sarah Hannaford is a real tour de force. She is engaging, fiercely intelligent and loved by the clients.

She has first-class analytical skills and an excellent attention to detail.

Sarah is very precise, clear on the way pleadings should be prepared and gives a good level of information. She is very authoritative in court.

Sarah is an extremely well-regarded silk. She is passionate about her cases and very impressive in oral submissions.

Sarah advised very well.

Sarah Williams provides good clear submissions and has a good strategic brain. She quickly arrives at the heart of the issue.

In court, she is measured but effective, and has helped to secure excellent results.

She is a very good junior, hard-working and diligent.

Sarah is a superb construction barrister. She quickly masters the facts, is very sensible and produces excellent written and oral submissions. She is very good at dealing with clients too.

Tom has proved his ability to get across huge swathes of material, to cross-examine effectively and to prepare concise pleadings which deal with a multitude of knotty issues with incredible clarity.

Tom Coulson is razor-sharp with his advocacy. He is one of the most user-friendly barristers we use.

Tom Coulson is my go-to junior on construction disputes. He gives sensible and pragmatic advice.

Tom Coulson's written work is outstanding. It is some of the best I have seen.

He is a real star in the making. He is incredibly intelligent and competent.

The quality of work produced by Abdul was consistently excellent and he was a pleasure to work with.

Abdul is extremely hard-working and dedicated. He is always on hand to ensure deadlines are met, and even at short notice.

His advocacy was persuasive, well structured and tailored to the complexities of the case, demonstrating both legal precision and strategic insight.

He works well in a team.

He provides great attention to detail and is fantastic with clients.

Calum has a creative legal mind, and is willing and capable to unlock complex technical and commercial issues on major infrastructure projects.

Calum provided robust commercial advice.

Calum is a ferocious advocate, lightning-sharp and is a real force to be reckoned with.

She's first-class and is destined to go to the top. She is really impressive and highly talented.

Emma Healiss is a first-rate junior.

Emma is extremely responsive and consistently provides high-quality advice and drafting.

Emma is very knowledgeable and has great attention to detail and is always well prepared for battle.

I was impressed at her level of knowledge. She was particularly good on her feet, even when up against a far more senior counsel.

Gaynor works exceptionally hard for the client and understands what the client needs to achieve. Both Gaynor's written work and advocacy style are second to none.

Gaynor is a great advocate and a very strong tactician. Her work product is excellent.

Gaynor's work is always done to a high standard.

He is very solid.

He offers excellent technical and commercial awareness, and establishes a strong rapport with everyone involved.

He dealt with complex issues and progressed matters very quickly.

Harry provides clear legal analysis and opinion on technical issues.

Harry has great technical skills and is responsive to requests for assistance.

He is a very incisive advocate and an outstanding junior. He has excellent practical experience with construction.

James is a client favourite and has an exceptional talent for digesting and understanding the heart of the issue in dispute.

James Frampton is a very strong barrister who provides clear and succinct advice on often complex areas of construction law.

James is one of the best barristers I have witnessed in terms of client relations; he understands not just his clients' needs but also them as people.

His written submissions have been excellent.

He is well regarded by clients and his strategic and commercial advice is pragmatic.

Jennie provides robust but commercially focused advice to clients. She is able to get to the heart of a matter quickly.

Jennie has a good eye for the detail and is very firm and focused with her advocacy.

John McMillan is a very effective advocate.

John exudes a quiet confidence that calms clients and judges alike.

His advocacy and cross-examination skills are exceptional, marked by razor-sharp precision and impeccable preparation.

John has excelled with supporting the client and leading counsel, and was trusted to undertake complex advocacy.

John is technically excellent and fantastic with the client team.

Krista Lee is very impressive, charming and clients love her. She is strong on written work as well as advocacy.

Krista offered good and clear advice on a few difficult legal questions. She was able to anticipate questions that might arise and answer them ahead of being asked.

Krista has an in-depth technical knowledge and understanding of the construction profession.

Krista Lee is very diligent, with great attention to detail.

She is an incredibly smart and effective advocate.

Marc Rowlands is incredibly talented and an expert in complicated contracts. He gives commercial, pragmatic advice.

His expertise has been very helpful. He is massively knowledgeable about construction law.

He is probably the most industrious and hard-working junior that I've come across. He lives and breathes the case.

He is approachable and strategic and offers practical advice that provides for the realities of working with busy and under-resourced clients.

There is nobody better when it comes to the most highly complex engineering cases, and his passion to get into the detail is clear to see.

Paul is able to digest down information into a format that is understandable by the client. He exceeds expectations in the way he provides advice.

He is very good and has a brilliant manner about him. The service you get out of guys like him is excellent.

Sean Wilken is a great of the sector with more brainpower than any other barrister that I have worked with. The answer he gives you will be the right one.

He's the full package, and in my experience there are very few barristers who are like that.

Tom goes that extra mile and makes my job easier.

Tom Lazur performed very well on his feet and had a mastery of the facts.

He is very practical and incisive. If I want an opinion, I always go to him.

Tom Owen provides excellent client service, with the ability to distil complicated matters into simpler terms.

Tom is extremely knowledgeable and provides outstanding strategic advice.

Tom is a pleasure to deal with and always gives clear advice in a manner that is easy for clients to understand.

Tom Owen is at the top of his game and a fierce advocate in support of clients' interests.

He is absolutely lovely, a delight to work with, super-clever and drafts beautifully.

Fionnuala McCredie is charm itself, with a vice-like grip of the facts. She is a relentless advocate.

She is a good all-rounder.

Harriet is completely on top of the detail, prompt and practical at advising and realistic in her assessment of prospects.

Harriet was a consummate professional, delivering an excellent standard of drafted pleadings and helpful input on strategy to progress the matter.

Harriet quickly got up to speed.

She is very good, very detailed, competent and quick.

She did some great submissions. I would definitely consider using her again in the future.

Samuel Townend is an excellent advocate.

He offers very sound advice and is confident.

William Webb is a genuine expert in all things construction.

He is a likeable advocate, who is good at defusing things through humour.

William Webb is one of my go-to barristers on construction-related disputes.

William Webb is a class act and a cut above the rest. He is very client-friendly, strategic and commercial in his approach and a very safe pair of hands on the most complex of disputes.

He is very pragmatic and really good on technical issues.

He is very good at law, great with clients and has a strong engineering background.

Richard Coplin has a terrific manner with lawyers and lay clients alike. He is responsive and produces an excellent quality of advice.