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Helena White
Position
Helena is an insurance and commercial practitioner, with a particular focus on construction and engineering disputes, professional negligence and property damage. Her experience includes public procurement and utilities work.
Recommended for Construction in Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500, Helena is known for being a robust trial advocate and providing clear and accessible advice either in writing or in conference. She is regularly instructed by a range of clients, including employers, contractors, construction professionals, insurers and insolvency practitioners to act in litigation, both in the TCC and the county courts, as well as arbitration, adjudication and mediation.
Helena accepts instructions on a direct access basis in appropriate cases.
Career
Qualified 2007; Middle Temple.
Memberships
- COMBAR
- South Eastern Circuit
- TECBAR
- BILA
- Society of Construction Law
Education
- University of Oxford, University College, Lit Hum, BA (Hons)
- CPE – City University
- BVC – ICSL
- Middle Temple Benefactors’ Scholar
Leisure
Helena is a keen sportswoman and can often be found running around in Hyde Park even in the windiest and muddiest of conditions. She is an avid film fan and also sings in a choir.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Helena White – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Helena is very good with client and explaining the most complex areas to them in a way that they understand. She put\’s them at ease. She has a commercial outlook which clients like and her advice always recognizes this.’
London Bar > Construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4With ‘genuine strength in depth at every level’, Gatehouse Chambers offers representation on a wide range of construction-related issues, with a particular focus in project disputes and defect claims. Leading Ebony Alleyne, Paul Reed KC is instructed to representing Mace in a major contractual claim concerning roof defects at Sky’s headquarters in Osterley. Simon Kerry acted as opposing counsel to David Pliener KC, who represented JN Piling in a three-party claim arising out of an oil spill, while Catherine Piercy KC acted as sole counsel to a Click St Andrew in a damages claim. Helena White continues to represent W Griffiths Architects as sole counsel in a major professional negligence TCC claim regarding fire safety and cladding issues. In the international arena, Andrew Kearney is acting as lead counsel through a high-value ICC arbitration against an international design and build contractor in the engineering sector.
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 6Helena White – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Helena is a pleasure to instruct. She is highly responsive and personable. Helena is commended for her technical prowess and takes a logical and analytical approach to highly complex issues.’