Fiona’s practice focuses upon commerce and construction. As a professional liability specialist, her particular expertise in claims against architects, engineers and surveyors is well-known. She undertakes substantial construction, transport and engineering cases for employers and contractors, as well as recovery claims for property insurers (fires and floods).  Similarly, she is an expert in claims against investment managers, accountants, auditors, insurance brokers, valuers and lawyers; but is just as often instructed in commercial disputes without a professional liability dimension, especially insurance and reinsurance disputes. Following postgraduate work in the field of securities regulation,

Fiona has a particular interest in financial services law.In short, Fiona enjoys any case with a significant technical content (whether the technicality be financial, scientific or legal) and which involves working as a team with solicitors, experts and lay clients. She relishes the challenge of choosing and using different dispute resolution strategies to achieve the best result for her clients, especially in multi-party disputes. Those clients include major insurers, international corporate and financial institutions and high-net worth individuals.

Fiona appears regularly in the TCC and in the Commercial Court, on appeal, and in arbitrations and mediations. She has provided many early neutral evaluations and “paper arbitration” awards. She is a TECBAR-accredited adjudicator.  

Fiona has been an Editor of “Jackson and Powell on Professional Negligence” since 1993. She writes the chapters on Construction Professionals and Expert Evidence.

Fiona lives in London with her young family.  When work permits, she heads for the hills.