Tim Higginson > 9BR Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Tim Higginson

Work Department

Door tenant

Position

Tim specialises in the fields of civil and commercial law, professional negligence and insolvency. He is also qualified as an arbitrator and mediator.

He is registered to accept instructions under Direct Public Access and is licensed to litigate.

His commercial work has covered a number of areas including contractual disputes, sale of goods, passing off and bills of exchange, and, particularly, interim applications including Search and Freezing orders.

Tim has built up an extensive practice over a number of years, the main areas of which concern disputes in:

• Commercial and Chancery
• Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing
• Insolvency
• Professional Negligence (principally, solicitors, barristers, auditors/accountants and bankers)
• Banking and Securities
• Equity and Trusts
• Sports Claims
• Partnership and LLP
• Regulatory

Mediation

He qualified as an accredited mediator through ADR Chambers in the mid-1990’s.  He has extensive experience in mediating all types of dispute, principally commercial and sports-related.  He has received many plaudits for his patient but firm handling of these.

Tim is also admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Territory of the British Virgin Islands), where he has appeared regularly.

He has been a regular contributor on a variety of sports-related matters on commercial and BBC radio.

Career

Called 1977

Memberships

Commercial Bar Association

London Court of International Arbitration

Chancery Bar Association

Education

LLB Hons.

Yarborough Anderson Scholar, 1976

Palmer Stawell Scholar, 1977