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Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide 2025


We are delighted to announce that members of 4 New Square Chambers…

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Members of 4 New Square Chambers featured in The Lawyers Top 20 Cases of 2023


Two cases involving members of 4 New Square Chambers are included in…

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Ben Elkington KC and Ben Smiley secure discharge of anti suit injunction in US$844m claim against reinsurers


In this litigation Ben Elkington KC and Ben Smiley act on behalf of the survivors and relatives of the victims of an aeroplane crash in Colombia,…

Ben Elkington KC and Ben Smiley act for successful insurer in the Court of Appeal in £10m aggregation dispute


Ben Elkington KC and Ben Smiley were instructed by DWF to represent RSA in the Court of Appeal, seeking the reversal of the judgment of HHJ…

Ben Elkington KC persuades the Court of Appeal to over-turn the dismissal of a £6.5m property damage claim


4 New Square’s Ben Elkington KC persuades the Court of Appeal to over-turn the dismissal of a £6.5m property damage claim.  Ben was instructed on an…

63 members of 4 New Square Chambers ranked in the Chambers UK Guide 2022


63 members of 4 New Square Chambers have been ranked in the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Guide 2022 across a wide range of practice areas….

Judgment regarding accountants acting as introducers, and considering Manchester Building Society v GT


Judgment was handed down this morning in the case of Knights v Townsend Harrison Ltd [2021] EWHC 2563 (QB). Ben Elkington KC and Ben Smiley acted…

4 New Square Chambers Nominated for Six Awards at the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2021


4 New Square Chambers is delighted to have received six nominations in the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2021:    Insurance Silk of the Year…

Court of Appeal rules on the test of inducement in insurance non-disclosure cases


4 New Square on both sides of important Court of Appeal ruling on the test of inducement to be applied where an insurer seeks to avoid…

Eighteen members of 4 New Square ranked in the Chambers Global Guide 2021


Eighteen members of 4 New Square have been ranked in the 2021 Chambers and Partners Global Guide across International Arbitration, Public International Law, Offshore, Dispute Resolution:…

Success in the Court of Appeal – Endurance Corporate Capital Limited v Sartex Quilts & Textiles Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 308


In a decision which will come as a surprise to some members of the insurance market, in Endurance Corporate Capital Limited v Sartex Quilts & Textiles Limited [2020]…

Sartex Quilts & Textiles v Endurance Capital – decision on indemnification on the Reinstatement basis


Ben Elkington KC acted for the successful claimant in this recent High Court decision. The case considered when an insured is entitled to an indemnity on…

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