Recommendations

Awarded the Information Technology Silk of the Year 2009 by Chambers & Partners

Jeremy is recommended as a leading silk in Legal 500 and in Chambers & Partners Guide and Legal Experts. Comments include:

• terrific and strategic one of those rare QCs who adds sufficient value that the solicitor gets recognition simply for making the introduction
• such a reassuring presence that we have no hesitation bringing him before clients who worship at his altar
• solicitors' ace in the hand
• immense intellect with excellent analytical skills and judgment
• superb pedigree in IT law
• tremendous attention to detail with the skill to get a sensible view out of a mass of information
• he has all the essential armoury

Practice

Jeremy Storey has an extensive and wide-ranging commercial practice with particular expertise in:

• Information technology
• Construction and engineering
• Professional negligence
• Insurance and reinsurance

Information technology

Jeremy is recommended as a leading Silk in IT law in Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and Legal Experts.

He specialises in contentious and non-contentious IT law. He represented the successful plaintiff in the milestone case of Salvage Association v CAP. Since then he has appeared in high profile IT cases in the TCC (e.g. representing NATS/CAA in one of the largest and longest IT cases litigated in the TCC) and in IT arbitrations. His clients include UK government departments, international software and hardware developers, cable and telecommunications providers, major corporate organisations, and IT consultants.

He acts as an arbitrator, for example in government IT disputes, and as a mediator. Clients include MOD, HM Revenue & Customs, the Home Office and all the police authorities in England and Wales.

He appears on appointing bodies' lists of IT arbitrators and mediators and regularly advises on all aspects of IT contract law.

Construction and engineering and related professional negligence

Jeremy has an extensive construction and engineering practice which includes litigation in the TCC and in arbitrations (domestic and international). He represents employers, main contractors, sub-contractors and professionals such as surveyors, consulting engineers, architects and logistics consultants.

The subject matter of major disputes litigated ranges from locomotive engines, roads, bridges and tunnels to sewage plants, drains, flood alleviation schemes, commercial developments, power stations, oil and gas rigs and hospitals.

He also acts as an arbitrator and mediator in construction and engineering disputes.

Insurance and reinsurance

Jeremy has extensive experience in these fields.

He is instructed in numerous building loss/business interruption cases involving disputes on fire, income protection, public liability and road traffic policies involving all major insurance companies.

He is instructed by syndicates and by managing agents both in arbitration and litigation in Lloyd's Names cases and other market disputes arising from long-tail claims.

He regularly advises and appears for and against insurers and reinsurers in contractual disputes over treaty wordings and policy interpretation.

He also acts as an arbitrator in reinsurance arbitrations.

Qualifications

BA (Cantab) Law 1st Class, MA
Registered to appear before the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts

Appointments

Recorder 1995
Deputy Judge Technology and Construction Court 1995
Acting Deemster (Judge) of the Isle of Man Courts (1st instance and appeal) 1999
Deputy High Court Judge 2008

ADR

MCIArb
Accredited Mediator (ACI and WIPO Panels)
Member ADR Chambers
Member Civil Mediation Council
In Place of Strife - Panel of Mediators and Arbitrators
WIPO - Panel of Mediators and Arbitrators

This is a summary of Jeremy Storey's CV. Please contact the clerks for a full version.