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Outer Temple Chambers

Professional Negligence

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Outer Temple Chambers

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Professional Negligence - London (Bar)

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Outer Temple Chambers is well regarded for its provision of specialist professional negligence barristers. The set fields a team adept at handling complex cases involving solicitors, actuaries, administrators and investment advisers. The set is especially well renowned for its depth of experience in matters relating to pension schemes and trustees. Recently, tenants from Outer Temple Chambers have appeared in the legal teams of three of the four parties in Briggs v Aon and Gowling & Paul Newman KC, one of the largest professional negligence cases in the pensions sector in recent years. Respondents praise the set for the quality of its barristers at all levels, with one commenting that Outer Temple delivers "significant bench strength of silks at the top of their game, coupled with some extremely good senior juniors".

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Strengths

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  • The clerks have all been very supportive and responsive.

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  • The clerks were excellent when initially looking to instruct counsel relatively quickly.

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  • Accommodating and understanding, and very easy to work with.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Andrew Short
    Andrew Short

    Andrew Short

    Andrew Short KC has significant experience in professional negligence cases, typically relating to the management of pension schemes. He represents both solicitor defendants and corporate claimants.

    • Andrew Short KC is an outstanding practitioner.

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    • Andrew Short KC is fearsomely intelligent, but able to articulate that intelligence in a commercial and pragmatic manner. He is a go-to silk for pensions work.

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    • Andrew is incredibly responsive and asks intelligent questions. He works collaboratively with you and interrogates instructions.

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  • Andrew Spink
    Andrew Spink

    Andrew Spink

    Andrew Spink KC is a leading pensions barrister with a busy practice in associated professional negligence claims. He has acted for the trustees of various large pension funds in claims against lawyers and administrators, as well as defending such claims.

    • Andrew Spink KC is a stellar advocate and true leader in the field. He's at the forefront of the most important cases in the industry.

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    • Andrew Spink KC is really user-friendly and hard-working. He brings a huge amount of gravitas and intellectual discipline to any case. He's a real solution finder.

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  • Helen Pugh
    Helen Pugh

    Helen Pugh

    Helen Pugh has a significant professional negligence practice, earning instructions from a number of top claimant firms. She has experience working on a wide remit of cases including international matters and property disputes.

    • She's really good across professional negligence and other commercial work. She's nice to work with and a great advocate.

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    • Helen Pugh is user-friendly, engaged and gets stuck in. She's good to work with and gives great advice.

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    • Helen Pugh gave very good common-sense and detailed advice that was helpful to discuss with clients.

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  • Nicholas Hill
    Nicholas Hill

    Nicholas Hill

    Within his professional negligence practice, Nicholas Hill specialises in pensions and financial services claims. He has significant experience acting as sole counsel in addition to being led.

    • Nicholas Hill gives very clear advice, understands the commercial context in which the advice is being given and frames it accordingly.

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    • Nick Hill gets straight to the point and is very efficient.

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  • Nicolas Stallworthy
    Nicolas Stallworthy

    Nicolas Stallworthy

    Nicolas Stallworthy KC is known for his work in complex professional negligence claims, specialising in cases involving solicitors, insurance companies and investment advisers in connection with pension scheme disputes.

    • Nick's advocacy very impressive. He's really smart and he'll pick up things others will miss.

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    • Nick Stallworthy KC is one of the best-known silks for the area of pensions litigation and justly has a rep for encyclopedic knowledge in that area.

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    • Nicolas Stallworthy KC is an exceptional silk. He's extremely bright and a great advocate.

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