Martyn Naylor

Practice Areas

Martyn has a leading commercial practice specialising in insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence and technology and construction disputes. He has been described by the legal directories as an “excellent lawyer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of insurance law” with “fantastic attention to detail and the ability to produce high quality pleadings and written submissions” and a “first-class advocate who produces submissions that are the standard of a [KC]”.

Martyn is frequently involved as both sole and junior counsel in some of the most complex and substantial disputes across a variety of sectors, which include both litigation and domestic and international arbitration. Martyn was instructed as junior counsel in the leading FCA Test Case on business interruption insurance in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic, both at first instance and on appeal in the UK Supreme Court, and has continued to act on behalf of insurers in subsequent Covid-19 claims, including in ‘at the Premises’ cases due to be heard by the Court of Appeal in 2024. He is also currently instructed by war risk insurers in relation to several Russian aircraft leasing claims.

In addition to his insurance practice, Martyn also specialises in professional negligence disputes, including claims alleging negligence by solicitors and insurance brokers, as well as disputes with a technology and construction aspect to them, such as claims against surveyors, engineers and architects.

Career

Jesus College, Cambridge (2003-07); Berkeley Law School (2007-08); College of Law (2008-09); Called 2009 (Inner Temple); Law Commission (2009-10); 4 Pump Court (2010-current).