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Benjamin Williams KC
Position
Barrister with a common law and commercial practice, specialising in insurance related litigation. Also has a special interest in consumer law, and all issues connected with the practice and regulation of solicitors (including professional discipline, costs and assessment), litigation funders and credit hire and claims management companies.
Career
Called 1994; Lincoln’s. Publications: editor Blackstone’s Civil Practice (2021-); editor, White Book (2013); editor Cordery on Solicitors (2006-2013).
Memberships
COMBAR; PNBA.
Education
Exeter College, University of Oxford (Stapeldon scholar, 1992 BA Modern History first class, 1996 MA); City University (1993 Diploma in Law); Inns of Court School of Law (1994 Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court Studentship Award); Lincoln’s Inn 1992 Hardwicke Entrance Scholarship, 1992 CPE Scholarship; 1994 Major Scholarship).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Costs
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Benjamin Williams KC –4 New Square ‘Benjamin is a go-to counsel on anything to do with costs. He is able to say in one sentence what other counsel often take a page over.’
Offering a ‘costs team that is second to none’, 4 New Square Chambers continue to be the pre-eminent set in this area, offering an unparalleled depth of expertise at both silk and junior level and regularly appearing on significant Court of Appeal and Supreme Court cases. Nicholas Bacon KC has recently acted in BSV Claims v Bittylicious Ltd and others, a major CAT class action and the UK’s first crypto-related collective proceedings, with the claim of collusion alleging to have caused close to £10bn in losses. In Belsner v Cam Legal, Benjamin Williams KC led George McDonald , with the pair successfully appealing to reverse the High Court’s decision that solicitors were subject to fiduciary duties when negotiating their own terms and business, entitling solicitors to deduct full reasonable costs from lower value personal injury claims. Both Robert Marven KC and Matthew Waszak acted in AKC v Barking, a significant test case before the Court of Appeal regarding the information bills of costs must contain in order to comply with CPR requirements. Theo Barclay, being led by Bacon KC, represented the Danish Customs and Tax Administration in the highly publicised SKAT litigation, where the costs bill in favour of the defendants on the indemnity basis totalled £46m.