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Chambers of Andrew Bartlett QC

2 CROWN OFFICE ROW, LONDON, EC4Y 7HJ, ENGLAND
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Michael Curtis QC

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Crown Office Chambers (Chambers of Andrew Bartlett QC)

Position

He has a broad commercial and civil practice with particular emphasis on construction, insurance and professional negligence. In the last two years he has been instructed in two of the leading reported cases concerning causation, remoteness and measure of loss: in Coal Pension Properties v NuWay [2009] 124 Con LR 50 (measure of loss in commercial property damage claims) he acted for the claimant; in Supershield v Siemens [2010] 129 ConLR 52 (causation/remoteness) he acted for Slaughter & May in the settled litigation, to which Supershield and Siemens were additional parties. in the same period he also acted for the insured in a two-month $150m international Cayman Island arbitration; for London Fire in Veolia plc (formerly Three Valleys Water) v London Fire & Emergency planning Authority [2009] EWHC 3019 and [2010] EWHC 208; and for Total in the Buncefield quantum litigation.

Career

Called 1982; Middle Temple; QC 2008; part-time lecturer in constitutional and administrative law at PCL 1982-85; articles published in ‘Arbitration and The Construction Law Journal’. Editor of Emden.

Member

Commercial Bar Association; LCL; CBA; TECBAR.

Education

King Henry VIII School, Coventry; Brasenose College, Oxford; Council of Legal Education; Kings College; London University (1981 BA Law; 1995 MA; 1995 MSc; 1996 ACIArb).

Practice Areas

Construction; Healthcare; Litigation - commercial

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