Ben Lynch KC

Practice Areas

Commercial dispute resolution, (re)insurance, professional negligence, competition, international commercial arbitration and telecommunications.

Recent cases: Russian insurance aviation litigation [2024]; Stonegate Pub Company Ltd v MS Amlin Corporate Member Ltd & Ors [2022] EWHC 2548 (Comm); Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Limited & ors [2020] Lloyd’s Rep. I.R. 527; [2021] 2 W.L.R. 123; Axis Corporate Capital UK II Ltd v Absa Group Ltd [2021] EWHC 861 (Comm); Rockliffe Hall Ltd v Travelers Insurance Co Ltd [2021] EWHC 412 (Comm); (1) Armstrong (2) Patchett v Respondents [2021] EWCA Civ 978; XYZ v Travelers [2019] 1 WLR 6075; Weatherley v Weatherley [2018] EWHC 3201 (Ch); Snoras v Antonov and Others [2018] EWHC 887 (Comm); Teva v AstraZeneca [2017] EWHC 1852 (Comm); Redman v Zurich Insurance Plc [2018] 1 W.L.R. 280; AIG v ILP LLP [2017] 1 W.L.R. 1168; Maccaferri Ltd v Zurich Insurance Plc [2017] Lloyd’s Rep. I.R. 200; Cape Distribution Ltd v Cape Intermediate Holdings Plc [2016] EWHC 1786 (QBD); JRT v RWL [2015] EWHC 1069 (QB); Lyons v Fox Williams LLP [2016] EWHC 2427 (QB); Godiva v Travelers; BT v Ofcom “Ethernet” case [2014] CAT 14; BT v Ofcom “PPC” case [2012] EWCA Civ 1051; Nouri v. (A Firm) [2010] 50 EG 64; Flexsys America L.P. v XL Insurance Company Limited [2010] Lloyd’s Rep. IR 132; ERC Frankona v American National [2006] Lloyd’s Rep IR 157.

Career

Appointed QC 2020. Astbury Scholar, Middle Temple. Columbia Law School, LLM (Stone Scholar). Inns of Court School of Law (Very Competent). Balliol College, Oxford, BA (Hons) Law (Top First in College, Paton Scholar).

Professional Memberships

LCLCBA (previously Chair), PNBA (previously committee member), COMBAR, Advocate.

Publications

MacGillivray on Insurance Law, first and second supplements to 15th Edition (2023 and 2024), 15th Edition, first and second supplements to 14th Edition (2019 and 2020), 14th Edition (2018), 13th Edition (2015), first supplement to 13th Edition (2016), second supplement to 13th Edition (2017), second supplement to 12th Edition (2014), first supplement to 12th Edition (2013), 12th Edition (2012) and 2nd Supplement to 11th Edition (2011); “Discriminate without prejudice” (2004) 154 NLJ 1038; “Pleading Fraud: the Insurer's Alternative” (2004) 154 NLJ 502 with Andrew Burns; and “What will happen to the QC Clause in Insurance Contracts if the rank of QC is abolished?” Corporate Counsel Magazine 2003.

Personal

Languages: working French.

Interests: family, fly fishing, proper sports, modern art, opera.

Trustee of homelessness charity.