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Christopher Knowles
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 4 : Professional Negligence
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Band 4
About
Provided by Christopher Knowles
Practice Areas
Christopher specialises in insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, commercial litigation, civil fraud, conflict of laws, banking & finance, and aviation. Many of his cases are high-value, and international.
Recent highlights include:
• Appearing for successful policyholders in the FCA Business Interruption Insurance Test Case, and a related arbitration.
• Acting for insurers in claims by aircraft lessors under operator insurance policies arising from the alleged seizure of aircraft in Russia following the invasion of the Ukraine.
• Appearing in a £330 million claim by an Angolan telecoms operator against a company owned by one of the telecoms operator’s former directors, and the former director.
• Acting in McClean v Thornhill, a £40m barristers’ negligence claim: one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2021.
• Defending a solicitors’ firm in an £83m professional negligence claim.
• Appearing for an insurer in a substantial LCIA arbitration over a bank’s professional indemnity cover.
• Acting for Rangers Football Club in a dispute with Sports Direct raising issues about breach of contract, deceit, and economic torts.
Career
Called 2011; Lincoln’s Inn.
Professional Memberships
COMBAR. Chancery Bar Association, BILA.
Publications
Co-author of Professional indemnity Insurance chapter of Professional Negligence and Liability; contributor to MacGillivray on Insurance Law (chapters on Good Faith and The Duty of Disclosure, Misrepresentation); co-author of the Lexis PSL section on loss of a chance; contributor to the Lloyds Law Report Financial Crime Reports.
Personal
St Catherine’s College University of Oxford (2009 BA (First Class) Law, 2010 BCL (Distinction)); BPTC (2011 (Very Competent)).
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