Chambers of Sue Carr QC
4 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3RJ, ENGLAND
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Ben Elkington
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Position
Barrister with a thriving practice centred on insurance, commercial, professional liability and civil fraud work. He acts for claimants and defendants in equal measure. Insurance work includes coverage disputes in all types of cover, and subrogated recovery claims. Commercial work includes domestic and international contractual disputes in the courts and arbitrations. Professional liability work focuses on insurance brokers (he edits the chapter in ‘Jackson & Powell’ on professional liability), financial advisers, solicitors, barristers, accountants, surveyors and mortgage brokers. Recent matters which have gone to trial include: Hawksford Trustees Jersey Limited v Stella Global UK Ltd [2011] EWHC 503 (Ch) (dispute over share purchase agreement); Ground Gilbey Ltd v JLT [2011] PNLR 15 (insurance brokers); Yeganeh v Zurich [2011] EWCA Civ 398 (insurance); Andrews v SBJ [2010] EWHC 2875 (financial advisers); Synergy v CGU [2010] EWHC 2583 (insurance & insurance brokers); William Mcllroy Swindon v Rannoch [2011] BLR 136 (insurance); Yeganeh v Zurich [2011] Lloyd’s Rep IR 75 (insurance); Nationwide v DHL [2010] 1 WLR 258 (solicitors and valuers).
Career
Year qualified: 1996; Gray’s Inn, associate with Sullivan & Cromwell, New York 1994-95; admitted to New York Bar 1995; judicial assistant to Court of Appeal, Spring 1998.
Member
COMBAR; PNBA; LCLCBA.
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge (1993 Law 1st); University of Virginia, USA (1994 LLM).
Leisure
Fly-fishing, golf.
Practice Areas
Litigation - commercial; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance; Professional negligence
