Francis Bacon
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 1 : Professional Negligence
Band 1
About
Provided by Francis Bacon
Practice Areas
Francis specialises in complex, high-value professional indemnity, commercial insurance and commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in England and Wales and overseas in acting for professional clients and their professional indemnity insurers. He also acts for private individual and corporate clients in commercial disputes and in claims brought against professionals both in this jurisdiction and in commonwealth countries.
He appears regularly in the High Court and Appellate Courts and many of his cases are widely reported in the leading texts.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Francis Bacon centres his practice on professional negligence cases and insurance coverage disputes, particularly those with an element of fraud. He often takes on high-value solicitors' negligence claims with significant international aspects, and routinely acts unled.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Francis is a very experienced junior who punches well above his weight."
"A real star who is excellent on the most complex of cases."
"Francis is fantastic with insurer and insured clients - clear, precise and firm where required. He speaks with authority and is very user-friendly. An absolute star!"
"Francis is a very experienced junior who punches well above his weight."
"A real star who is excellent on the most complex of cases."
"Francis is fantastic with insurer and insured clients - clear, precise and firm where required. He speaks with authority and is very user-friendly. An absolute star!"
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