Keating Chambers

Alice Sims is a leading senior junior specialising in construction, engineering, energy, infrastructure and utilities disputes, together with professional negligence, insurance and regulatory claims. Her practice focuses on high-value, technically complex and often multi-party disputes, frequently involving significant expert evidence and commercially sensitive issues. She is instructed both as sole counsel and as part of larger teams.

She regularly acts for insurers, and for both claimants and defendants in Building Safety Act claims in the TCC and FTT including fire safety litigation, BLOs, Ros and RCOs.

Alice has particular expertise in energy-related construction (and commercial disputes, onshore and offshore, and has acted in litigation and arbitration concerning renewables, nuclear, oil and gas projects, chemical processing plants and major engineering developments.

She regularly appears in the High Court and in domestic and international arbitrations, and has extensive experience of adjudication, mediation and enforcement proceedings. Alice is a CEDR and TECBAR-accredited mediator and is a CIArb-qualified arbitrator, regularly accepting sole and panel international and domestic arbitral appointments. She has held judicial appointments since 2013 and currently sits as a Recorder in crime.

Alice is ranked by the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, including in construction and as a mediator, and is a contributor to Keating on Construction Contracts and the Construction Law Reports. Directory feedback describes her as “a great mind”, “brilliant”, “very bright and very user-friendly”, and “one of the best barristers I have ever worked with”.

For mediation enquiries, please contact the ADR Practice Manager Oliver Goldsmith.

• CEDR Accredited Mediation Member, 2021
• TECBAR Mediation Member, 2011
• London School of Mediation (full accredited course), 2011
• Tenancy, Keating Chambers, 2008
• Tenancy, 4 Pump Court, 2006
• Pupillage, 4 Pump Court, 2005
• Bar Vocation Course (Outstanding – 5th in year), ICSL 2004
• Postgraduate Diploma in law (Very Competent), City University 2003
• MA Social Anthropology (First Class – 5th in year), Cambridge University 2002

• TECBAR (Alice is a current committee member with joint responsibility for the TCC users-committee)
• SCL
• COMBAR
• The South Eastern Circuit

Alice is a keen scuba diver, horse rider, skier and cyclist. Alice loves travel, socialising and good food.