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Michael Harper

+44 (0)20 7797 8100 mharper@crownofficechambers.com

Position

Michael’s practice centres on professional negligence, insurance, property damage, product liability, commercial disputes and related (or overlapping) areas.

Michael regularly advises or acts at all stages of litigation and in a variety of hearings, including as sole counsel in the High Court. Alongside this, Michael prides himself on working effectively as part of a larger team. Examples include a £300m professional negligence dispute (one of the Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2019).

Career

Before joining Chambers, Michael was the Judicial Assistant to Lady Justice Gloster, worked on what became the Insurance Act 2015 at the Law Commission and tutored in Commercial Law at the University of Oxford. During practice Michael has also spent a period on secondment with a specialist insurance firm.

This background has provided direct experience of what solicitors and clients but also judges want from counsel.

Memberships

COMBAR, PNBA

Education

BPTC; BCL (University of Oxford; with faculty scholarship); BA Jurisprudence (University of Oxford).