Gatehouse Chambers undertakes a variety of complex and high profile professional negligence disputes across the legal, construction, property, insurance and financial sectors. Catherine Piercy KC acts for the external wall contractor in the Grenfell Tower litigation and is leading Helena White and Kort Egan. John de Waal KC represents the defendant solicitors in University for the Creative Arts v Eversheds Sutherland International, a solicitors claim which centres around the allegedly negligent operation of a break clause. Daniel Gatty represented the defendant in Trio Property Investment v The Foster Partnership Ltd, an action against a group of licensed conveyancers – at issue was if the limitation period continued to run against a company being wound up if the claim would be met out of the defendant’s insurance.
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Helena is a commercial practitioner, with a particular focus on domestic and international construction and engineering disputes, insurance coverage, professional negligence and property damage. Her experience includes public procurement, infrastructure and utilities work.
Recommended across various practice areas in Chambers and Partners, Chambers Global, the Legal 500 and the Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal), 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, arbitration, adjudication and mediation, across a variety of jurisdictions, with a particular focus on the Middle East.
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
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