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Mr Adam Walton

+44 (0)20 7544 2600 awalton@keatingchambers.com

Position

Adam practises in Keating’s core practice areas and accepts instructions to advise, draft, and provide representation at all stages of litigation or other dispute resolution process. He joined Keating following the successful completion of his pupillage in 2023.

Whilst undertaking his pupillage, Adam’s work reflected Keating’s core specialisms and centered around construction and engineering, professional negligence, commercial, adjudication, and international arbitration. He also gained experience of a wide variety of standard form contracts, including the JCT, NEC, and FIDIC, as well as bespoke construction contracts, insurance contracts, guarantees, and bonds.

Most recently, Adam has been instructed:

• As part of the counsel team led by Simon Hughes KC on a £400 million ICC Arbitration concerning a project in the Middle East.
• As Sole Counsel on a £820k breach of contract claim in the High Court (TCC), which concerns alleged defects on a project in Dubai.
• To advise and act as Sole Counsel on a £200k Defective Premises Act 1972 claim.
• To appear as Sole Counsel in High Court enforcement proceedings.
• As Junior Counsel on two separate, but concurrent adjudications for the same client (the Employer) in relation to the same project: one bringing a claim for liquidated damages, the other resisting the main contractor’s smash and grab.
• As Junior Counsel on an adjudication against a steelwork subcontractor, which raised issues of delay, defects, and repudiatory breach.

Prior to commencing pupillage, Adam worked at the Law Commission of England and Wales as a Research Assistant and at the Court of Appeal as Lord Justice Coulson’s Judicial Assistant. Whilst working as a Judicial Assistant, Adam’s work was consistently lauded by members of the Court of Appeal for its quality and clarity; with Lord Justice Coulson notably describing him as “incredibly clever” and “exceptionally good at identifying the issues at the heart of a case”.

Alongside being the holder of over ten awards and scholarships, Adam has also published work in several leading law journals; with a number of these published works going on to be cited in both leading textbooks and further academic pieces. Most notably, Adam’s work on scope of duty is cited in Chitty on Contracts, whilst his work on the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 is cited in Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.