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Provided by Henry Warwick KC
Practice Areas
Henry Warwick KC is a leading practitioner at the Bar in England & Wales in commercial disputes, in group litigation and collective redress, and, among other areas, banking and financial services. Henry has particular expertise in large scale multi-party actions. He acted for the successful claimants in The Post Office Group Litigation, for GSK in the Seroxat Group Litigation and has acted for claimants and defendants alike in a range of financial services, consumer law and other multi-party disputes, including environmental claims.
Henry is instructed in high value commercial cases in the Business and Property Courts. His practice ranges from fraud and insolvency claims such as recent proceedings arising from the administration of London Capital & Finance Plc and sovereign wealth fund litigation Libyan Investment Authority v. King & others, to claims arising from corporate restructuring, agency, joint venture and other investment disputes. He has particular expertise in the economic torts and in financial sanctions. Henry is routinely instructed in associated costs and funding disputes, including by household name professional funders. Henry represented UK nationals in the remaining 27 EU member states in R (Miller & others) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 6, and in a challenge to EU measures inhibiting Brexit negotiations in Fair Deal v Commission (T-713/16). He appears in all divisions of the High Court, in appeals, arbitrations and in mediations; he also acts in claims conducted in offshore jurisdictions including Gibraltar and the Isle of Man.
Career
KC 2020. Prior to the Bar, commercial litigation solicitor at Linklaters LLP (qualified 2000). Latterly, Legal Counsel at Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. There he worked with a range of international tribunals including in the Eurotunnel Arbitration, disputes under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, such as Guyana v. Suriname, and in other public international law disputes between states. LLM Cambridge University, Jesus College (2005, First Class); Judicial Assistant to Lord Nichols and Lord Hope (2000); Bristol University (1996, First Class).
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COMBAR
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Henry Warwick KC has acted in an impressive array of group claims including the Post Office Horizon claims and the Volkswagen NOx and Seroxat litigation. He has experience representing claimant groups and defendants.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Henry is as sharp as a tack. He is all over the detail, forensic in his approach and absolutely clinical in cross-examination."
"Henry has a real depth of experience and expertise across a number of areas of the law; he is no one-trick pony."
"Henry's advice is well considered, broad in scope and thorough."
"Henry is a very bright and excellent advocate."
"Henry is absolutely clinical in his cross-examination, highly intelligent and organised, and military in his execution."
"Henry is brilliant; he is involved in many of the leading group litigation cases. He works very well with the team, is very hands-on and is always thinking strategically."
"Henry is as sharp as a tack. He is all over the detail, forensic in his approach and absolutely clinical in cross-examination."
"Henry has a real depth of experience and expertise across a number of areas of the law; he is no one-trick pony."
"Henry's advice is well considered, broad in scope and thorough."
"Henry is a very bright and excellent advocate."
"Henry is absolutely clinical in his cross-examination, highly intelligent and organised, and military in his execution."
"Henry is brilliant; he is involved in many of the leading group litigation cases. He works very well with the team, is very hands-on and is always thinking strategically."
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