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Piers Stansfield KC
Position
Piers has established a reputation as a “formidable advocate” and a “superb fighter” in the many trials that he has conducted. His advocacy is engaging and persuasive, and he is a tenacious cross-examiner. His written work is described as “first class”.
Piers has wide experience of construction, engineering, energy, professional negligence, shipbuilding and IT disputes. He has an “excellent grasp of complex technical issues” including engineering, delay analysis and forensic accountancy. He is known for his meticulous preparation and the clear and attractive presentation of his client’s case to the tribunal. He is described as having “the ear of the Court” and providing “the ideal balance between technical knowledge and effective advocacy”.
Since taking silk, Piers has continued to be instructed to appear in substantial and hard-fought TCC trials. These include a high-profile dispute concerning the Athletes’ Village for the London 2012 Olympics. He represented the Claimant in a termination case involving a petrochemical plant (SABIC UK Petrochemicals v Punj Lloyd), and the Claimant building owner in a multiparty dispute concerning defects in a large residential development (Greenwich Millennium Village v Essex Services Group and Others). In both these cases, his clients were successful. Piers has also appeared before both domestic and international arbitral tribunals in high-value shipbuilding and construction disputes.
Piers also has an extensive advisory practice and is known for his “keen legal acumen and commercial insight”. From 2021, Piers is a joint editor of Keating on Construction Contracts.
Career
Public Access Training, 2007
TECBAR Accredited Adjudicator
Keating Chambers, 1994
Pupillage, Keating Chambers, 1993-94
Called to the Bar (Inner Temple), 1993
Memberships
Technology and Construction Bar Association (TECBAR)
Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)
Society of Construction Law
Society for Computers and Law
Education
Loretto School; Bristol University (LLB).
Leisure
Piers is a keen cyclist and participates in races in the UK and occasionally on the continent. He also enjoys travel, theatre and music.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Construction
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Piers Stansfield KC – Keating Chambers ‘Piers has a razor-sharp intellect and is able to distil the complex into the easy and understandable. Advice is always presented with the client reader in mind. Clients trust him and will ask for him again. Piers very much works as part of the team which makes working with him easy and enjoyable. Basically, he’s first-class.’
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.