Christopher Lewis KC

Practice Areas

Christopher practises principally in the fields of construction and engineering; energy and utilities; information technology; and related matters.

He is an experienced trial advocate and is usually also involved at earlier stages of a case. His experience includes, therefore: advisory work; settling pleadings, submissions and notices; pre-trial advocacy (including advocacy in mediations); and trial advocacy. That experience spans a range of different forums, including mediation, adjudication, expert determination, arbitration (domestic and international), the High Court (principally the TCC and the Commercial Court) and appellate courts.

He has represented clients from, and advised on disputes relating to, a number of different jurisdictions throughout Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A number of those disputes have been subject to arbitration, under differing arbitration rules. He has a particular interest in disputes which have a conflict of laws element (whether as to jurisdiction, or choice of law, or otherwise).

Very often his cases will involve complicated issues of law, fact and/or expert evidence; and those issues have arisen in a range of different types of project across a range of different disciplines.

Career

MA, BCL (Oxon). Some-time tutor of Law at Wadham College, Oxford and LSE; former Judicial Assistant to Lord Woolf MR.

Professional Memberships

TECBAR, COMBAR, LCLCBA, Society for Computers and Law, SCL.