Charles Thompson
Barrister @Keating Chambers
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WORK HISTORY
Barrister @Keating Chambers
Charlie Thompson is a construction and insurance specialist with a domestic and international practice that has seen him led by respected silks from various Chambers.Charlie’s recent caseload has seen him instructed in several disputes arising out of major infrastructure projects, including the extension of the London Underground, the Merseylink project, works at Sellafield, and the Ellesmere Port Pre-processing plant.He has also been working as a junior in high value CAR claims arising out of sand ingress damage in wind turbines in Saudi Arabia (as well as CAR matters closer to home), as part of a team on a large arbitration arising out of gas processing works in Qatar, and in a delay and disruption dispute arising out of the refurbishment of a University library. Charlie has experience in relation to a variety of standard form contracts including FIDIC, NEC and the JCT forms. Of late, he has also been involved in numerous construction, adjudication and related professional liability matters in his own right; these include a multi-million-pound final account loss and expense dispute arising out of hotel development works in Piccadilly, allegations of professional negligence against a firm of architects in relation to a large-scale commercial development in North Wales and a contractual dispute in respect of a data processing facility in Belgium.Whilst on a Pegasus Scholarship in the Middle East, Charlie worked with the DIFC Courts. During this time, he was involved in the DIFC Courts of the Future Forum (convened to meet the demands of future litigation and design the courts of the future) and, in particular, drafted the first round of the procedural rules for the courts of the future, speaking at the launch event for this international project.
EDUCATION
University of Oxford
Bachelor’s Degree
SKILLS
ABOUT CHARLES THOMPSON
Barrister at Keating Chambers
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