Areas of Practice
Professional Liability
Commercial Litigation
Construction & Engineering
Financial Services & Securities Regulation
Insurance & Reinsurance
Product Liability
Arbitration
Profile
Mark specialises in professional liability claims in a commercial context (acting for both claimants and defendants), construction, insurance and reinsurance and commercial disputes.
To all his work Mark brings a keen intellect, years of experience as an advocate in trials, arbitrations and appeals, profound knowledge of the law and great enthusiasm and commitment.
Over the last 20 years Mark has been instructed in a number of long-running, large cases and he is used to working as part of a team of lawyers and experts in substantial litigation. He relishes the challenge of working with others to master complex facts and difficult points of law, to make the right tactical decisions, to put forward the best possible case and to achieve the best possible result at the right time.
The Directories
In Chambers UK 2010 Mark is described as "robust and very detailed in his advice" (construction). He is said to be universally acclaimed for his "immense intellect and awe-inspiring knowledge of the law" (professional negligence). Mark was lised as a new silk in Chambers and Partners, 2009, for both professional negligence nad construction. In professional negligence he was said to be "academically incredibly bright" and to have a "very attractive advocacy style". In construction Mark was said to be establiishing himself as "one of the leading thinkers in the market".
Comments in the directories in recent years in the context of Mark’s professional negligence work as a junior have included “extremely solid and punchy”, “prepared to roll up his sleeves and get into the facts and documents”, “superb”, “very good at recognising the commercial parameters within which his clients operate”, “technically excellent”, “scarily clever” with “an encyclopaedic knowledge of the field”, "a real trooper who holds his corner in court well", “a great ideas man" and "second to none in terms of intellectual ability". Mark was recommended when a junior in Construction in Chambers & Partners, where he was said to have “a velvet-gloved grasp of the law”, “an eye for legal minutiae” and “very good judgement in all that he undertakes”.
Publications
Cannon & McGurk on Professional Indemnity Insurance
Oxford University Press 2010
Mark is the co-author of this new book, which was published by OUP in March 2010 and provides a comprehensive, practical guide to this area of law.
Jackson & Powell on Professional Negligence
Sweet & Maxwell
Sweet & Maxwell
Jackson & Powell on Professional Negligence/Liability Sweet & Maxwell Editor (3rd edition, 1992: edited chapter on insurance brokers; 4th edition, 1997: edited chapter on insurance brokers and wrote chapter on members' and managing agents at Lloyd's; 5th edition, 2001: edited and wrote chapter 2, 'Duties and Obligations', chapter 3, 'Remedies', chapter 4, 'Contribution between Defendants', and chapter 5, 'Defences'); 6th edition, 2006,edited chapters 2-5.
Further Information
Professional Negligence Bar Association (committee member 2000-2007; Vice-Chairman, 2008-9, Chairman 2010-) COMBAR; Tecbar; Western Circuit Member of the Calvert-Smith task force on funding entry to the Bar (2003) and of the Bar Council Education & Training Committee (2003-2005) and of Training the Bar Committee (2006-2008).
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