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Ms Isabel Barter
Career
Isabel practises in Professional Negligence, Product Liability, Property Damage, Group Litigation work, Commercial Fraud, Commercial Dispute Resolution and Private International Law.
She frequently appears as sole Counsel against KCs. In addition, she has been lead junior in complex cases for several years, is adept at dealing with technical expert evidence, and has a real aptitude for absorbing large amounts of information quickly.
She was nominated for Professional Negligence Junior of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2022, and for Group Litigation and Consumer Junior of the Year at the Legal 500 Awards 2022 and 2023. She is recommended in the directories as a leading practitioner for Professional Negligence, Product Liability, Property Damage and Group Litigation work.
Isabel is Associate Editor of, as well as expert contributor to, Mark Simpson, Professional Negligence and Liability (Informa, updated twice yearly), and she is an expert contributor on product liability to Howard Palmer KC, Property Damage (Bloomsbury, 2023). She is also joint General Editor of Bloomsbury’s ‘Journal of Professional Negligence’, published quarterly, and a member of the PNBA Executive Committee.
Prior to coming to the bar, Isabel worked in the charitable sector. She graduated from Cambridge with a BA (Hons) in History. She was also a Major Scholar of the Inner Temple.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Product liability
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Isabel Barter – 4 New Square Chambers ‘Very able junior who works on some big-hitting cases. She is very capable.’
Covering sectors such as medical devices, manufacturing, food and drinks, and agricultural products, 4 New Square Chambers excels across the full range of commercial and construction disputes related to defective goods, and multi-party claimant actions regarding consumer products. David Turner KC has a specialism in claims arising from fires, and continues to act for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in litigation related to the Grenfell Tower fire, against the manufacturer of the flammable cladding panels and its parent company, and against the manufacturer of a fridge freezer. Lead junior in both of these proceedings, Isabel Barter joined from 2 Temple Gardens in December 2023, and is also instructed to handle claims arising from an electrical fire that allegedly started in a Slush Puppie machine, causing millions of pounds of damage to a bowling alley in Great Yarmouth and neighbouring premises.
London Bar > Group litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Isabel Barter – 4 New Square Chambers ‘Isabel is exceptional. She operates at a level far beyond her call and out-performs silks and senior juniors at that level. Both her clarity of expression and composure make her oral and written advocacy particularly polished and persuasive, and is quite clearly primed and ready to take on that role more formally in silk in the very near future.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Isabel Barter – 4 New Square Chambers ‘Isabel is incisive and articulate. She brings an astute legal mind to the cases and she is phenomenally hardworking.’
4 New Square Chambers continues to be one of the most prominent sets on the market for professional liability matters with a strong bench strength across both silks and juniors. Ben Elkington KC and Anthony Jones are acting for the defendant in HMRC v Ernst & Young, which explores important legal points surrounding the duty of care owed by tax advisors to HMRC. Neil Hext KC and Hannah Daly act for the claimants, while Jamie Smith KC and Miles Harris represent the defendant in Manchester Property Development Holdings Ltd v Kuit Steinart Levy LLP, a case concerning alleged negligent advice given by a firm of solicitors in relation to a revolving finance facility. Shail Patel KC took silk in March 2024. Alongside Ben Hubble KC, Patel has been instructed in Peter Breitenback & Ors v Canaccord Genuity regarding a high-value tax and investment negligence claim against a Canadian wealth management company. Isabel Barter joined the set from 2 Temple Gardens in December 2023. The professional negligence offering is also strengthened by the addition of Jack Steer, who joined from Hailsham Chambers in January 2024.