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Professional Liability and Coverage Update: what happened in 2024 and what’s in store in 2025?


By Helen Evans KC,  Ben Smiley, Pippa Manby,  Marie-Claire O’Kane and Will Cook…

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News & Judgments

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 – Ben Elkington…

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…

Justin Fenwick KC and Ben Smiley successfully defend the Former Administrators of One Blackfriars Limited in £250m High Court claim


Following hard-fought litigation commenced in 2017, and a fully remote trial held during 2020, judgment has recently been handed down in the case of Re One…

4 New Square act in the leading case on adjournments being sought in the context of the Covid-19


Justin Fenwick QC and Ben Smiley acted for the defendants who successfully resisted the claimants’ application to adjourn a 5 week trial due to Covid-19. The…

4 New Square’s Justin Fenwick KC, Nicholas Bacon KC and Ben Smiley succeed in the Court of Appeal in the “Arkin Cap” case of Davey v Money and others


Justin Fenwick KC, Nicholas Bacon KC and Ben Smiley succeed in the Court of Appeal in the “Arkin Cap” case of Davey v Money and others….

Important decision handed down last week in relation to the limits of the Arkin Cap


Last week, Mr Justice Snowden handed down judgment on the application of the successful Defendants against the Claimant’s commercial funder, ChapelGate, for a non-party costs order…

The Lawyer: “Whatever happened to…the 4 New Square juniors of 2016?”


4 New Square’s juniors, George Spalton, Can Yeginsu, Ben Smiley, Christopher Greenwood, Anthony Jones and Peter Morcos, have been featured in The Lawyer’s “Whatever happened to…”…

2017 – A Year in Costs


  January – Stephen Innes, Thakkar v Patel [2017] EWCA Civ 117 The trial judge’s costs order (that the Defendant pay 75% of the Claimant’s costs) reflected his finding…

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Two New Tenants for 4 New Square Chambers


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