Practice Areas
Henry Warwick KC is a leading practitioner at the Bar in England & Wales in commercial disputes, in group litigation and collective redress, financial services, consumer law and in civil fraud. Henry has particular expertise in large scale multi-party actions. He acted for the successful claimants in The Post Office Group Litigation, for GSK in the Seroxat Group Litigation and has acted for claimants and defendants alike in a range of financial services, consumer law and environmental claims.
Henry acts in high value commercial cases in the Business and Property Courts and on appeal. His practice ranges from fraud and insolvency claims such as London Capital & Finance Plc to sovereign wealth fund litigation Libyan Investment Authority v. King, as well as claims arising from corporate restructuring, joint venture and other investment disputes. He has particular expertise in economic torts, and in financial sanctions. Henry is routinely instructed in costs and funding matters, including by household name funders such as Therium, in YLL v. CIL & Therium Capital Management.
Henry acted in high profile proceedings arising from Brexit, R (Miller & others) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 6, and Fair Deal v Commission (T-713/16). He acts for parties in arbitrations under a range of procedural rules (e.g. UNCITRAL, LCIA) including in the aviation and oil and gas sectors. He also acts in claims offshore such as in Gibraltar and the Isle of Man.
Career
KC 2020. Called to the Bar in 2007 following practice as litigation solicitor at Linklaters LLP (qualified 2000). Latterly, Legal Counsel at Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. There he worked with a range of tribunals including in the Eurotunnel Arbitration, disputes under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, such as Guyana v. Suriname, and in other public international law disputes between states. LLM Cambridge University, Jesus College (2005, First Class); Judicial Assistant to Lord Nichols and Lord Hope (2000); Bristol University (1996, First Class).
