Rebecca Keating

Rebecca acts in and advises on a variety of technology related disputes. Rebecca’s experience includes disputes and advisory work ranging across all areas of technology including software, hardware, cloud services and emerging technologies.

Rebecca has a longstanding interest in technology. Prior to joining Chambers, Rebecca worked at Dropbox’s European Headquarters. While at Dropbox she worked with companies across different industries and with Fortune 500 companies located in Europe, the Middle East and South Africa. Her work focused on assisting clients in the large-scale deployment of cloud technology.

Rebecca is a committee member of the Society for Computers and Law Women in Technology group and a committee member of the Tech Disputes Network.

Rebecca has published several articles on the topic of technology and the law in both national and international publications. She is also a contributing author to “The Law of Artificial Intelligence” (Sweet & Maxwell, 2020). She speaks regularly on the legal implications of emerging technologies such as quantum computing, AI and blockchain.

Featured Technology & Intellectual Property cases

Instructed as junior counsel in the Post Office Group Litigation (Bates & Ors v the Post Office Ltd (No 6: Horizon Issues) [2019] EWHC 3408 (QB)), a group action brought by over 500 current and former sub-postmasters who alleged defects in the Post Office’s retail and accounting computer system.

Instructed as junior counsel in a patent dispute regarding software and algorithms for quantum computers.

Instructed as sole counsel in disputes involving cryptoassets (relevant issues considered include hacking, tracing and misuse of traditional bank accounts for crypotrading).

Instructed as junior counsel in various claims for breach of contract and negligence arising out of telecoms outages across Europe.

Instructed as junior counsel in a claim regarding termination of a supply agreement in the telecoms sector.

Instructed as junior counsel in a claim concerning a bespoke software system, which includes allegations of breach of contract, negligence and misrepresentation.

Instructed as sole counsel in a dispute for breach of a licence agreement and misrepresentation in the provision of products and services.

Instructed as sole counsel in a dispute regarding system outages and resulting losses.

Instructed as sole counsel in a claim for an injunction arising out of a provider withdrawing access to a company’s website and servers.

Instructed as sole counsel in a claim for breach of contract arising out of the design of accounting software and the provision of hardware.

Instructed as sole counsel in relation to a claim for damages arising out of the design and build of a website.

Assisted in a software dispute concerning copyright infringement, breach of confidence and conspiracy.