Chambers of Sue Carr QC
4 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3RJ, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7822 2000
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- Fax 020 7822 2001
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- 1041 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
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This is a commercial and civil set with a particular reputation for claims involving professionals and insurance work. Other strong areas are commercial disputes, financial services and banking, and construction.
The set: Based in Lincoln’s Inn, with modern facilities, including video conferencing, and large conference and arbitration/mediation rooms, chambers combines a commitment to achieving and maintaining the highest standards of advocacy and advice for all clients with the very highest standards of client service. This is reflected in the large awards and guaranteed earnings offered to its pupils, from whom its junior tenants are regularly recruited.
Jeremy Stuart-Smith QC was appointed head of chambers in January 2009. His predecessors include Roger Stewart QC, Justin Fenwick QC, John Powell QC, Rupert Jackson QC (now Jackson LJ) and Roger Toulson QC (now Toulson LJ).
The set has numerous connections abroad. Graeme Mew maintains a separate practice in the Canadian firm Nichol Paskell Mede, where he is managing partner. Graeme practises principally as an advocate, mediator and arbitrator. Other senior members of chambers also appear in overseas jurisdictions.
Eva Lomnicka is Professor of Law, King’s College London.
Types of work undertaken: Chambers has particular expertise in the field of professional liability and covers the full range of claims against professionals, not just for negligence, but for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of trust, and disciplinary and regulatory proceedings. The main professions covered are accountants and auditors, architects and engineers, solicitors and barristers, financial intermediaries and institutions (including bank and hedge funds), insurance intermediaries, Lloyd’s agents, surveyors, valuers and patent agents.
Other major areas of practice include insurance and reinsurance, commercial Chancery, construction and engineering, costs, banking and financial services (including UK, EU and international securities regulation), disciplinary proceedings, commercial litigation and product liability.
Chambers has considerable experience in multi-party litigation in the context of product liability, professional negligence, fraud recovery and disaster claims.
In all those areas, members of chambers appear as advocates in the courts, arbitrations and overseas. They also provide advice and drafting.
Publications: as well as Jackson & Powell on Professional Negligence (John Powell QC, Roger Stewart QC, Mark Cannon QC, David Halpern QC, Graeme McPherson QC, Leigh Ann Mulcahy QC, David Turner QC, Hugh Evans, Fiona Sinclair, Paul Sutherland, Amanda Savage, Sian Mirchandani, Ben Elkington, Anneliese Day and Graham Chapman), publications include: Lawyer’s Liabilities (Hugh Evans), Confidentiality (Charles Phipps and Toulson LJ) and The Encyclopaedia of Financial Services Law (Eva Lomnicka and John Powell QC). Leigh-Ann Mulcahy QC is the general editor of Human Rights and Civil Practice, which was published in October 2001. Scott Allen, Anneliese Day and Alex Hall Taylor contributed. Jeremy Stuart Smith QC is the co-author of The Law of Motor Insurance with Professor Rob Merkin, and is also the consulting editor to The Procedure Reports. Nicholas Bacon is a contributor to Halsbury’s Laws of England on Costs. Mark Cannon QC and Brendan McGurk are co-authors of Professional Indemnity Insurance (2010).
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