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“Paul was incredibly diligent and easy to work with – a keen sense of detail coupled with a firm technical and legal understanding”
Paul Fisher’s experience spans Chambers’ core practice areas at the commercial end of the spectrum, with a particular focus on complex construction, international arbitration and professional liability.
“An excellent construction lawyer, with first class legal skills and the ability to work as part of a team” – Legal 500, 2022
“Paul was incredibly diligent and easy to work with – a keen sense of detail coupled with a firm technical and legal understanding.” – Legal 500, 2021
Paul is no stranger to document-heavy disputes with an international angle. Outside of the UK, he has particular expertise in projects within the Middle East as well as Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. He spent two years working for an international law firm in Doha, Qatar. He is a busy junior advocate with plenty of experience acting as sole counsel and with silks. Notable recent cases include:
Paul also has a thriving public law practice. His work is advocacy-heavy, complemented by the fact that he serves as Counsel on the Attorney General’s Civil Panel (C Panel). In this capacity he frequently acts for and advises various government bodies, including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Environment Agency and the Department for Communities and Local Government. This includes judicial review and applications for interim relief in cases relating to alleged unlawful detention, human trafficking and unlawful deportation as well as the lawfulness of sanctions regimes.
Paul frequently writes for publications throughout England and the Middle East on matters pertaining to his main areas of practice. He provides seminars and talks tailored to the needs of individual firms and has given lectures abroad on advocacy and the English legal system. Paul also has Russian language skills and has experience of legal issues surrounding significant infrastructure projects arising out of the CIS.
For more details about Paul’s work in respect of each of his practice areas, please refer to the relevant headings below.
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Paul has significant experience of general commercial actions, having acted for both claimants and defendants. His work is informed by his breadth of experience in commercial professional negligence actions against auditors and IFA’s, his work in international dispute resolution, his experience of disputes arising from the energy sector and frequent involvement in joint venture disputes.
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Paul has a wealth of experience when it comes to professional liability claims, having advised and acted in claims involving auditors, accountants, surveyors, solicitors, barristers, engineers and construction professionals. He has acted for both Claimants and Defendants.
Featured Professional Liability cases
Financial services disputes have formed a large part of Paul’s work to date. He has undertaken work with the Financial Conduct Authority and has extensive experience of disputes arising from the sale of complex financial products.
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“An excellent construction lawyer, with first class legal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.” – Legal 500, 2022
“Paul was incredibly diligent and easy to work with – a keen sense of detail coupled with a firm technical and legal understanding.” – Legal 500, 2021
Paul has extensive experience of construction-related litigation and arbitration. His experience includes disputes arising from major infrastructural projects in the UK and the Middle East encompassing complex claims for prolongation costs, extensions of time, variation and unlawful termination. Paul is recognised as a Leading Construction Junior by Legal 500.
He has experience of advising and acting in disputes relating to all the major contract suites, including JCT, FIDIC and NEC. He also has experience of the civil codes of Qatar, the UAE and Bahrain in the context of construction disputes and working throughout the Persian Gulf and the Sultanate of Oman.
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Paul frequently writes on points of legal interest for construction lawyers and professionals for publications in the UK and in the Middle East.
Paul has a developing international arbitration practice with experience of ICC, DIAC and QICCA institutional rules.
He spent a year working for one of the leading law firms in the Middle East dealing primarily with arbitrations arising throughout the region, which took him to Lebanon, Oman, the UAE and Qatar. During that time he gained acute experience of the civil codes of the region.
Featured International Arbitration cases
Paul has been appointed to the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel (C Panel) with effect from 1 March 2019. In this capacity he frequently acts for and advises various government bodies, including the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Environment Agency and the Department for Communities and Local Government.
He has extensive experience of public law cases, having acted for and against public entities as sole counsel and in a led capacity. Paul frequently appears before the Administrative Court and Upper Tribunal.
Featured Public Law cases
In his commercial practice, Paul is frequently engaged due to his understanding of the interaction between private obligations and public law. For example, he has been instructed in an action brought by two universities for the provision of allegedly negligent advice on EU public procurement rules (led by Patrick Lawrence QC)
Paul frequently writes on topics of constitutional interest. Originally from Cardiff, Paul has written extensively on the development of a Welsh jurisdiction and the devolution settlement. He was a part-time lecturer in constitutional law at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford and has written for publications such as the Washington Post, Independent and Kyiv Post on questions of constitutional law throughout Europe.
His international practice means that he has also been called upon to advise on the application of umbrella clauses in investor-state disputes.
Paul has extensive experience of acting for insurers and reinsurers in coverage disputes, with a particular knowledge of disputes arising within the professional indemnity context.
Featured Insurance cases
Paul has also written extensively on insurance and re-insurance related topics.
Paul has extensive experience of costs disputes.
Featured Costs cases
Paul has written on costs issues such as the pre-Jackson principles surrounding ATE recovery (‘After the event: a premium on justice – Hawksford Trustees Jersey Ltd v Stella Global UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 987 C.J.Q. 2013, 32(1), 27-32) and the utilisation of the indemnity basis as a means to support pro bono legal advice and representation (No such thing as a free lunch? N.L.J. 2012, 162(7527), 1068)
Paul has a growing practice in sports law. He advised a Premier League club in a claim brought by a former player for an allegedly negligent injury misdiagnosis by the team physiotherapist. Paul also frequently acts on a pro bono basis for sportsmen and women who find themselves subject to suspensions and bans under the WADA Code. He has experience of acting for rugby and hockey players appealing adverse decisions by UKAD before the National Anti-Doping Panel.
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Education
Paul read law at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford where he obtained a first class degree and was awarded a David Blank Scholarship. At the same institution Paul achieved a distinction on the BCL studying with the benefit of a graduate scholarship. Throughout this time Paul received various university prizes including for his performance in Competition, Labour and EU Constitutional law. Having studied the BPTC at Cardiff University (graded Outstanding) Paul was called to the Bar at Middle Temple where he is an Astbury Scholar and a Lechmere Essay Prize winner. In 2012 he was awarded the Access to Justice Foundation Student Essay Prize. Paul has served as a part-time Lecturer at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford teaching the law of contract and constitutional law. Paul also has an MA in Russian Studies from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London (Distinction).
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