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Paul Bury
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Paul Bury is a highly experienced specialist in oral and written advocacy in:
- domestic and international commercial construction,
- professional negligence,
- energy,
- insurance,
- offshore,
- infrastructure projects, and
- regulatory disputes.
He has been described as “razor-sharp…first class [and] a future star of the Construction Bar”.
Paul is regularly instructed as sole Counsel or as Junior Counsel in a broad range of disputes including highly complex and high-value High Court proceedings, international and domestic arbitration (in particular ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL), adjudication and mediation.
He has extensive advocacy experience in High Court trials, applications, procedural hearings, and adjudication work as well as in arbitrations and adjudications. Paul has been praised as “a skilled advocate, delivering effective oral arguments and cross-examination at hearings”.
Paul has gained particular expertise in cases involving issues of delay and disruption, defects, and contractual termination, and cases involving professional negligence and insurance issues, particularly those involving structural engineers, architects, cladding issues, and energy technology. Paul has extensive knowledge of the JCT, NEC, IChemE Red Book and FIDIC standard form contracts and of the offshore LOGIC and SAJ forms.
Some of the larger TCC matters he has been involved in include Energy Works (Hull) Ltd v MW High Tech Projects, Bluewater Energy Services BV v Mercon Steel Structures BV and Vivergo Fuels Ltd v Redhall Engineering Solutions Ltd and, in adjudication, Eurocom v Siemens. Paul’s international arbitration practice has seen him act for clients on projects based in jurisdictions such as South Africa, Dubai, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Qatar and Nigeria.
Having previously worked for a leading international law firm in Brussels on complex regulatory issues involving blue-chip international companies, Paul is adept at taking a commercial approach to legal issues and dispute resolution and receives praise from clients for his ability “to penetrate difficult details” with “an impressive grasp of the technical detail of a case”. He is recommended as a leading junior in the legal directories for construction, energy and professional negligence and is described as “undoubtedly a star of the future”.
Career
Keating Chambers, 2011
Pupillage, Keating Chambers, 2010-2011
Parliamentary Assistant, European Parliament, Brussels, 2009-2010
Research Assistant, Keating Chambers, 2008-2009
Called to the Bar, (Inner Temple) 2008
Languages
English, basic French and German.
Memberships
TECBAR, SCL
Education
College of Law, London – BVC 2007-2008
Exhibitioner, Inner Temple 2007
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Brussels 2005-2007
Pembroke College, Oxford University – BCL 2004-2005
Pembroke College, Oxford University – BA (Law) 2001-2004
Lenzie Academy, Glasgow 1995-2001
Leisure
Watching and playing sports, including football, rugby, tennis and golf. He also has a keen interest in film and music.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Paul Bury – Keating Chambers ‘Paul is outstanding. He is calm, measured, intellectual and personable. Everyone who works with him is impressed. He is destined for Silk.’
As an ‘excellent specialist set’ in construction law, Keating Chambers continues to impress with its representation in an array of high-profile cases, both in the UK and abroad. In addition to the set’s global presence in arbitrations, domestic instructions include Martlet Homes v Mulalley, the first post-Grenfell cladding fire safety case to go to trial, where Jonathan Selby KC and Tom Coulson represented the claimants, while Simon Hughes KC and James Frampton acted for the defendants. Other key cases include Cambridgeshire County Council v BAM Nuttall Limited, a long-running case concerning a guided busway in Cambridgeshire, involving Piers Stansfield KC, Sarah Williams, and Harry Smith acting for the claimant. Paul Bury, acting for Resource Recovery Solutions (Derbyshire) Limited, and Lucy Garrett KC, who is representing Derbyshire CC & Derby CC, are instructed to appear on opposite sides of a dispute revolving around the termination of a PFI contract for the Derby waste-to-energy plant. The set has seen the addition of Alexandra Bodnar from 39 Essex Chambers. Paul Buckingham KC and William Webb KC both took silk in March 2023, while Adam Constable KC (as was) is now on the High Court bench.
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Paul Bury –Keating Chambers ‘Excellent team player – getting into the detail and working well with instructing solicitors. Strong written advocacy.’
London Bar > Energy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Paul Bury –Keating Chambers ‘Paul’s advocacy is clear and concise, and he is extremely skilled at rapidly understanding complex technical points.’