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Benjamin Williams KC KC
Position
Barrister with a common law and commercial practice, specialising in insurance related litigation. Also has a special interest in consumer law, and all issues connected with the practice and regulation of solicitors (including professional discipline, costs and assessment), litigation funders and credit hire and claims management companies.
Career
Called 1994; Lincoln’s. Publications: editor Blackstone’s Civil Practice (2021-); editor, White Book (2013); editor Cordery on Solicitors (2006-2013).
Memberships
COMBAR; PNBA.
Education
Exeter College, University of Oxford (Stapeldon scholar, 1992 BA Modern History first class, 1996 MA); City University (1993 Diploma in Law); Inns of Court School of Law (1994 Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court Studentship Award); Lincoln’s Inn 1992 Hardwicke Entrance Scholarship, 1992 CPE Scholarship; 1994 Major Scholarship).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Costs and litigation funding
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1‘Simply the best costs set in the country’, 4 New Square Chambers offers in-depth expertise at every level of call and across all aspects of costs and litigation funding, with particular areas of experience including wasted and non-party costs, funding arrangements, security for costs applications, and non-contentious advisory work. Nicholas Bacon KC, Robert Marven KC, Simon Teasdale and Stephen Innes all acted in Diag Human v Volterra Fietta, with this significant case about whether severance is available to save an otherwise enforceable conditional fee agreement heading from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. In Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust v Luke Hoskin, Benjamin Williams KC, Roger Mallalieu KC and Pippa Manby appeared in a case which now progresses to the Court of Appeal to clarify the principle concerning recoverability of agency fees in personal injury claims. Marven KC also appeared on the opposite side to Mallalieu KC and Teasdale in Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP v Kenig, a Court of Appeal case concerning if a beneficiary to a will can later challenge solicitors’ costs even though they have been agreed and paid by the executor.