Lucy Garrett KC

Practice Areas

Lucy is “is extremely talented with razor-sharp intellect and boundless energy” and “a brilliant advocate with a superb way of persuading judges” who is frequently instructed in high profile and high value disputes both in the UK and internationally. She is ranked as a Leading Silk in construction, international arbitration, energy and professional negligence. Her practice includes project-related issues such as insurance, bonds and guarantees. Lucy also advises on and acts in adjudications, from referral stage to enforcement.

Her impressive specialist practice has a particular focus on large projects involving complex factual, technical and contractual disputes. Lucy appears regularly in the English courts including at appellate level and in international arbitration in the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Her extensive international experience includes all major institutional rules and ad-hoc arbitrations, and many disputes in civil code jurisdictions.

Lucy is always in demand for her forceful advocacy, commercial approach and “stellar” intellectual ability. She has recently been described as “an exceptionally good operator who is easy to deal with and wears her enormous intellect lightly,” “absolutely on top of all the detail” and “definitely someone to have on your side.”

Career

University of Manchester (BA Hons English Language and Literature 1st Class); PgDL. Called to Bar 2001 (Prince of Wales Scholar). Joined 2 Temple Gardens 2002. Won Chambers & Partners’ Construction Junior of the Year in 2013 and nominated again in 2015. Took silk in 2018. One of The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” in 2021. Appointed a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 2023. Nominated for the Chambers & Partners’ Diversity & Inclusion Outstanding Contribution award in 2023.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR, SCL, TecBAR

Publications

Co-Editor of Keating on JCT Contracts (looseleaf). Contributor (1st and 2nd Editions) and Co-Editor (forthcoming 3rd Edition) of Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering. Contributor to Keating on Construction Contracts (8th to 11th Editions). Co-author of Litigation in the TCC (1st Edition).

Personal

Lucy enjoys reading. Her current recommendations are The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, Simon Mason’s DI Wilkins series and Mr Phillips by John Lanchester. Sadly the 2019 and subsequent Reachers are to be avoided at all costs but all the previous ones remain excellent.

Lucy took a sabbatical from the Bar between June 2018 and December 2019 to work as a Senior Advisor for the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. She spent 18 months in Sierra Leone working closely with the Mayor of Freetown, the extraordinary Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE. Her blog describing her experiences is here: https://thehillsofthechanklybore.com/