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Hailsham Chambers Offices
CHAMBERS OF JULIAN PICTON QC
4 PAPER BUILDINGS, TEMPLE
EC4Y 7EX
England
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Imran Benson
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Imran is an experienced litigator who is well known for a robust but charming style of advocacy and excellent client service. He specialises in professional liability, commercial litigation, costs, insurance disputes, cyber law and disciplinary and regulatory controversies. He appears in domestic and foreign courts, before various regulators and a range of arbitration tribunals. He gives clear and straightforward advice even in the most complex and nuanced of cases.
He is ranked in the legal directories for both professional negligence and costs and is instructed by national, City and international law firms, as well as institutional clients and HNW individuals.
Imran is willing to consider direct public access instructions in appropriate cases.
Career
Queen Mother Scholarship, Middle Temple 2004; Chancery Bar Lodge Essay Prize 2004; called 2005, Middle Temple; Middle Temple Estates Committee 2013 to date.
Memberships
PNBA; PIBA; London Commercial Law and Commercial Bar Association.
Education
Sutton Grammar School for Boys; Bristol University (2004 LLB); BPP (2005 BVC – very competent).
Leisure
Running, skiing.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Imran Benson –Hailsham Chambers ‘He gives clear advice and is extremely good on his feet. He’s a joy to work with.’
Considered to be ‘one of the standout chambers for professional indemnity work’, Hailsham Chambers is highly experienced with handling professional negligence claims across a variety of sectors such as legal, finance, and property. Michael Pooles KC successfully acted for DWF and its insurers in King v DWF, which alleged a dishonest settlement was conducted by the solicitors. Imran Benson is instructed to act for the defendant in Skykomish v Gerald Eve, a case revolving around a valuation dispute of a block of student flats in Aberdeen. Simon Wilton KC was appointed silk in March 2024. Described as ‘an excellent lawyer and advocate’, Wilton has extensive capabilities, handing a variety of negligence claims against solicitors. Deputy senior clerk Michael Kilbey retired in January 2024.
London Bar > Costs and litigation funding
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Imran Benson –Hailsham Chambers ‘Imran is an intelligent, eloquent and perceptive barrister who is good at getting the ear of the court. He focuses on his client’s best arguments and expresses them with economy and strength. He is also a creative thinker, good at finding new perspectives to recurring and seemingly intractable problems.’
Hailsham Chambers have established ‘an excellent reputation for costs’, having been highly active in the recent significant developments related to litigation funding following the PACCAR judgment, the fallout from the Belsner case concerning solicitor-client costs, and the extension of the fixed recoverable costs regime. Jamie Carpenter KC acted for Bugsby Property LLC in the first dispute between litigation funders and a successfully funded client to reach the courts since PACCAR, with the High Court rejecting the first attempt to use the judgment to invalidate a previously agreed litigation funding agreement. ‘On the top of his game in this practice area’, Imran Benson successfully represented the respondent in Paper Mache Tiger v Mathews, an important High Court judgment on non-party costs orders in the situation of small businesses. Stephen Bailey was also successful for the respondents in Kindertons Ltd v Murtagh & Esure Services, with the decision of the High Court providing a significant win for insurers in relation to non-party costs orders.