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About
Provided by Ben Smiley
Practice Areas
Litigation, arbitration and other dispute resolution in core areas: commercial, insurance, professional liability, financial regulation, costs and sports work.
Ben was on the shortlist for the Chambers & Partners Professional Negligence Junior of the Year 2021, was nominated in the Legal 500 Bar Awards for Chancery Junior of the Year 2022 and was nominated in the Legal 500 Bar Awards for Professional Negligence Junior of the Year 2023.
In his broad commercial practice, Ben acts for claimants and defendants in respect of very complex and high-value cases, across a variety of industries.
Ben has significant expertise on insurance law, covering issues such as policy interpretation, aggregation, presentation of risk, and third party rights.
In the professional liability sphere, he often acts in claims by or against solicitors, barristers, accountants, financial service professionals and insolvency practitioners.
Ben’s costs practice is varied, with a particular emphasis on non-party cost orders and wasted costs orders.
The sports work undertaken by Ben includes governance, selection, doping, and commercial issues.
Ben regularly appears in the High Court and has also acted on several occasions in appeals to the Court of Appeal and/or the Supreme Court. He has strong experience as sole counsel and as part of a larger team.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Ben Smiley represents insurance brokers, insolvency professionals and financial advisers, among others. He is a highly esteemed barrister who has acted as sole counsel in a number of significant cases in the professional negligence field.
Ben Smiley has a vast amount of experience in costs litigation matters. He has notable expertise in high-profile solicitors' liens disputes and non-party costs orders matters, with particular experience of applications for wasted costs orders. He has appeared at various levels of court including the Supreme Court.
Ben Smiley's insurance practice involves acting both for and against insureds in a range of matters including liability, business interruption and fire damage claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ben Smiley is very diligent and extremely clever. A rising star."
"Really good both at paperwork and on his feet, he has a really nice manner and is someone courts give credence to. He's very, very good, and one of those you know will be a silk at some point."
"Ben is an exceptionally strong advocate."
"Ben is technically excellent, great with clients and a skilled advocate."
"Ben is always quick to respond with excellent and strong advice. He is logical and reliable."
"Ben is an exceptional junior. He is incredibly knowledgeable on the developments within the accountancy professional liability sector and right across the spectrum of professional liability cases."
"He is our go-to senior junior. He's very clever, turns things around quickly and is excellent on his feet."
"Ben is excellent for accountancy claims. Meticulous and tenacious, he is a safe pair of hands."
"Ben Smiley is very diligent and extremely clever. A rising star."
"Really good both at paperwork and on his feet, he has a really nice manner and is someone courts give credence to. He's very, very good, and one of those you know will be a silk at some point."
"Ben is an exceptionally strong advocate."
"Ben is technically excellent, great with clients and a skilled advocate."
"Ben is always quick to respond with excellent and strong advice. He is logical and reliable."
"Ben is an exceptional junior. He is incredibly knowledgeable on the developments within the accountancy professional liability sector and right across the spectrum of professional liability cases."
"He is our go-to senior junior. He's very clever, turns things around quickly and is excellent on his feet."
"Ben is excellent for accountancy claims. Meticulous and tenacious, he is a safe pair of hands."
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