Chambers of Ewan McQuater KC and David Quest KC

Barrister specialising in commercial work generally, in particular IT law, banking, building and engineering, professional negligence, and electronic disclosure; cases include: Standard Chartered Bank v Ceylon Petroleum Corporation [2012]; AMF v Hashim [1991]; Docklands Light Railway v Balfour Beatty [1996]; GE Capital v Bankers Trust [1995].

Called 1975; CEDR-accredited mediator; chartered arbitrator; contributor to ‘Banking Litigation’ (Sweet & Maxwell, 2017; ‘Bullen & Leake’s Precedents of Pleadings’ (IT disputes, Sweet & Maxwell, 2008); ‘Expert Determination’ (Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, 2008, and 2015), ‘Electronic Evidence’ (2012); former chair of the disciplinary tribunal of the British Computer Society.

French (fluent), German (working knowledge).

COMBAR; TECBAR; Society of Construction Law; fellow of the Society for Computers and Law; Franco-British Lawyers Association; Adjudication Society; fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; fellow of the British Computer Society.

Harrow School; Trinity College, Cambridge (MA).

Bridge, computers, bloodstock breeding, skiing.