Building Safety

4 Pump Court is at the forefront of building safety litigation in England and Wales. Drawing on our highly regarded construction and engineering practice and our complementary strengths in professional negligence, insurance, insolvency and commercial litigation, we advise on and appear in many of the most significant cases shaping the developing jurisprudence under the Building Safety Act 2022.

Our barristers appear in some of the highest-profile, highest-value, and precedent-setting decisions on key aspects of the Building Safety Act 2022, including seminal decisions concerning Remediation Orders, Remediation Contribution Orders, Building Liability Orders, and Information Orders. Our team of specialist barristers also has significant experience in the substantial body of related cladding, fire safety, and defects litigation, including claims in contract and tort and claims under the Defective Premises Act 1972.

We act for the full range of parties affected by building safety issues: freeholders and landlords, building owners and management companies, leaseholders, developers, main contractors and subcontractors, architects, registered building inspectors, product manufacturers, insurers, and the government.

Our experience spans every relevant forum: our barristers have appeared in relation to building safety issues before the Technology and Construction Court, the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), and matters currently before the Court of Appeal. Our barristers are also frequently engaged on a strategic and advisory basis from the earliest stages of a dispute and throughout its life and have significant experience assisting with mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Owing to the breadth and depth of our barristers’ experience in building safety litigation and the related practice areas of construction and engineering, professional negligence, insurance, insolvency and commercial litigation, we are uniquely placed among construction specialist sets to advise clients on the full range of implications of their disputes. We are also able to put forward counsel or teams of counsel to handle any case, ranging from small hearings in the First-tier Tribunal to the largest and most complex cases, including multi-party litigation with numerous defendants and multiple expert disciplines.