Henry Warwick KC

Practice Areas

Henry Warwick KC is a leading practitioner at the Bar in England & Wales in commercial disputes, in group litigation and collective redress, and, among other areas, banking and financial services.

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 other multi-party disputes, including environmental claims.

Henry’s commercial practice ranges from high profile sovereign wealth fund litigation, such as Libyan Investment Authority v. King & others, to claims arising from corporate restructuring, agency, joint venture and other investment disputes. He has particular expertise in fraud, the economic torts and in financial sanctions regimes.

Henry is routinely instructed in associated costs and funding disputes, including by household name professional funders in the London litigation funding market.

Henry represented UK nationals in the remaining 27 EU member states in R (Miller & others) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 6, and in a challenge to EU measures inhibiting Brexit negotiations in Fair Deal v Commission (T-713/16).

He appears in all divisions of the High Court, principally the Business and Property Courts, in appeals, arbitrations and in mediations; he also acts in claims conducted in offshore jurisdictions including Gibraltar and the Isle of Man.

Career

KC 2020. Prior to the Bar, commercial 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 international 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 Nicholls and Lord Hope (2000); Bristol University (1996, First Class).

Professional Memberships

COMBAR