Chloe Carpenter KC

Practice Areas

All areas of commercial law (in particular commercial litigation, banking, financial services, professional negligence), disciplinary and regulatory work and administrative and public law. Recent cases include: Alexander v West Bromwich Mortgage Company Ltd [2015] EWHC 135 (Comm), [2016] EWCA Civ 496; acting for the first defendant in Al Khorafi v Sarasin-Alpen in the appeal in the DIFC Court of Appeal; Al Sulaiman v Credit Suisse and Plurimi [2013] EWHC 400 (Comm); Leeds City Council and Newham v Barclays Bank Plc [2021] 2 WLR 1180; Law Society v Baxendale-Walker [2006] 3 All ER 675, [2007] 3 All ER 330, [2008] 1 W.L.R. 426; Thaker v SRA [2012] EWHC 432 (Admin); acting for the SRA in Lumsdon v LSB, BSB & SRA [2014] EWHC 28 (Admin); Law Society v Blavo [2017] 1 WLR 4514, [2019] 1 WLR 1977; Beety v NMC [2017] EWHC 3232 (Admin); SRA v Main [2018] EWHC 3666 (Admin); SRA v Malins [2018] EWCA Civ 366; SRA v James, Macgregor and Naylor [2019] 2 All E.R. 527; acting for Baker McKenzie in SRA v Senior and others; acting for the respondent in SRA v Mishcon de Reya, acting for the respondent in SRA v Bretherton.

Chloe is also a CEDR accredited mediator.

Career

Called to the Bar 2001. Educated at Impington Village College; Hills Road Sixth Form College; Kings College London (LLB, 1st class, 1999) and Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL, Distinction, 2000). Member of Fountain Court Chambers since 2002. Took Silk in 2020.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR, ARDL.

Publications

Joint author of The Law of Privilege, edited by Bankim Thanki QC (3rd edition, 2018, Oxford University Press); joint author of Law of Bank Payments (5th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2018); contributor to Disciplinary and Regulatory Proceedings (10th edition, LexisNexis, 2019); author of the sections on legal professional privilege in Cordery on Legal Services (LexisNexis, 2024).