Dermot Woolgar

Practice Areas

Dermot Woolgar specialises in domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration, construction, engineering, professional liability, insurance, and property damage. A background in his early years undertaking commercial chancery work means that he is often instructed in cases which have real property or insolvency aspects.

He has acted for many Overseas Territories Governments, typically in public law-related disputes. He has a detailed knowledge of their constitutions, courts and substantive laws.

His commercial practice includes fraud, product liability, shareholder disputes, confidential information, restraint of trade, distribution and agency, financial services, information technology, international transport, and fishing. His construction and engineering practice ranges from international infrastructure projects to high-value domestic buildings, often involving complex expert evidence, typically acting for real estate developers, housebuilders and major contractors. His cases often involve the application of the substantive laws of other common and civil law jurisdictions. He particularly welcomes work with multi-jurisdictional legal teams.

He is recognised as a measured, effective and engagingly persuasive advocate, with wide-ranging knowledge and versatile experience gained over many years in multiple areas of law. He pays meticulous attention to detail, while maintaining a clear focus on the strategically essential aspects of a dispute, and acts always with the objective of securing better outcomes for his clients.

Career

Called 1988

Professional Memberships

Chair, Bar Council Overseas Territories Working Group

Member, Bar Council International Trade Working Group

Committee Member, London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association

LCIA

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Technology and Construction Bar Association

Commercial Bar Association

PNBA

ALBA