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Alex Charlton KC
Position
Barrister specialising in all commercial and technical disputes with particular experience in the following sectors: software and IT, telecommunications, licensing, infrastructure and outsourcing.
Career
Qualified 1983, Middle Temple; QC 2008.
Memberships
ICC; LCIA; HKIAC; KLRCA; CIArb; ICE Crossrail Adjudicator; TECBAR; COMBAR; LCLCBA; SCL.
Education
St Andrews University (MA Hons English); City University (Dip Law).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > IT and telecoms (infrastructure and contracts)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Alex Charlton KC –4 Pump Court ‘Alex is a very confident and highly effective advocate with excellent cross-examination skills. His written work is equally impressive. He is personable and easy to work with, and also very good with clients.’
4 Pump Court is ‘a true IT specialist set’ with ‘excellent IT disputes counsel at all levels’ covering the full breadth of technology and telecoms matters, including artificial intelligence, IT outsourcing matters such as syndicated services, software licensing and developing agreements. Alex Charlton KC acts for the claimant, leading Iain Munro in Topalsson GmbH v Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd, a TCC dispute in relation to a failed project implementation for visualisation sales systems, raising issues of unlawful termination, misrepresentation, and damages – Terence Bergin KC and Matthew Lavy KC appeared for the carmaker. Charlton KC also appeared for the claimant in IBM v LzLabs & Others, which includes claims for breach of licensing agreements and injunctions in relation to mainframe software, while Lavy and Gideon Shirazi are instructed as opposing counsel. Lynne McCafferty KC is appointed advisor on the independent advisory panel concerning the Post Office Horizon scandal, alongside Charlton KC and Benjamin Pilling KC.