King’s Counsel Appointments 2019

4 Pump Court are delighted to announce that James Leabeater and Jessica Stephens will be appointed as Queen’s Counsel at the next ceremony in Westminster on 11th March 2019.

10th January 2019

Legal 500 EMEA guide rankings

4 Pump Court are delighted that Members of Chambers are recognised for their construction work in the Middle East by the Legal 500 EMEA Guide 2018. Members ranked as Leading Silks include Duncan McCall KC, Sean Brannigan KC, Rachel Ansell KC and Alexander Hickey KC, James Leabeater and Sanjay Patel are ranked as Leading Juniors. […]

16th April 2018

Jurisdiction challenge to Arbitration for lack of capacity

James Leabeater represented the successful respondent, CMSA, in resisting a challenge to the jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal brought under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996. CMSA had agreed to construct and supply ESSA, a Mexican state owned salt mine, with a self-unloading salt barge as part of an attempt to modernise ESSA’s transportation […]

16th February 2018

Winner of Construction Set of the Year and IT/IP Junior of the Year in the Chambers & Partners UK 2016 awards

We are delighted to have been awarded Construction Set of the Year with Matthew Lavy also taking the award for Intellectual Property and IT Junior of the Year in the Chambers & Partners UK 2016 awards. Chambers & Partners hosted an exclusive dinner at the London Hilton on Park Lane on Thursday 27thOctober for the […]

Chambers UK Bar Awards: 2016 Shortlist

4 Pump Court are delighted to have been shortlisted in the following areas of law for the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2016: Construction: Set of the Year Silk of the Year – Sean Brannigan KC Junior of the Year – James Leabeater IP/IT: Set of the Year Junior of the Year – Matthew Lavy The […]

21st September 2016

International Commercial Law Conference – 29th & 30th June 2016

James Leabeater will be speaking at The London 2016 International Commercial Law Conference. The two day conference is a joint undertaking of the Commercial Bar Association of Victoria and the Commercial Bar Association of England and Wales. It is an exciting initiative of the Melbourne and London commercial Bars and will bring together commercial dispute […]

4 Pump Court barristers represent both sides in dispute about the Malmaison Hotel in Liverpool

Alexander Hickey KC, leading Thomas Crangle, has appeared against James Leabeater in AMEC Foster Wheeler Group Ltd v Morgan Sindall, a dispute arising out of the sale of AMEC’s construction business to Morgan Sindall in 2007, and specifically relating to the construction of the Malmaison Hotel in Liverpool. Edwards-Stuart J, the Judge in charge of […]

5th May 2016

LSLC Seminar: 10th March 2016

Sean O’Sullivan KC and James Leabeater will be speaking at the London Shipping Law Centre, Maritime Business Forum. The seminar titled The Arbitration Act 1996 – 20 years on – Views from the Bar will be chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate. Sean and James will be speaking alongside ten other members of the Bar, […]

Civil Appeals: Principle & Procedure 2nd Edition Published

We are pleased to announce that the second edition of Civil Appeals: Principle and Procedure has been published. Written by Sean O’Sullivan KC, Lynne McCafferty, James Purchas and James Leabeater, Civil Appeals is an authoritative and detailed guide to the practice and procedure for bringing civil appeals at all levels of the appellate courts. Further […]

18th September 2015

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