Legal 500 UK Bar 2023
Date: 29 September 2022
We are pleased to have 26 silks and 27 juniors identified in the Legal 500 UK Bar 2023 Guide. These recommendations span the following 13 practice areas: Construction, International Arbitration (counsel), Energy, International Arbitrators, Public Procurement, Professional Negligence, Mediators, Planning, Shipping, Environment, European Union Law, Administrative Law and Human Rights and Local Government. In addition to these individual endorsements, Keating Chambers are also listed as a leading set in several practice areas. A selection of this feedback is included below:
Construction
‘Keating Chambers is unrivalled at the construction bar. They have an array of world class silks and up and coming juniors who are leading experts. You know they will always exceed high expectations. Keating Chambers is what all sets should be like.’
‘Top class specialist set for construction and engineering disputes. It covers a wide range of highly specialist and technical work, and everyone encountered there is professional, welcoming, and friendly.’
Energy
‘Keating chambers is the pre-eminent construction chambers in the world. The strength and depth of the senior and junior ranks is without peer.’
‘Keating has the strength in depth to enable them to easily pull in junior counsel to support at pinch points in litigation. They are busy (as I would expect) but what I like about Keating is that the counsel make themselves available to answer direct calls with ad hoc queries and will put in the hours when needed to deal with urgent work.’
International Arbitration
‘They have an array of world class silks and up and coming juniors who are leading experts. You know they will always exceed high expectations. Keating Chambers is what all sets should be like.’
‘Keating Chambers is a go-to chambers for construction arbitration Counsel. It continues to maintain its reputation of excellence. Members of Chambers are flexible in terms of travel, and also regularly offer seminars which serve as training for our lawyers, which is a value add.’
Professional Negligence
‘Keating chambers has been my “go to” set for many years; especially for juniors to joint the team and assist with research. The quality of juniors and the speed at which they can pick up the often complex technical nuances of a case is a massive assistance to my small litigation team.’
‘I have used Keating Chambers for around 30 years, using the full spectrum of Barristers from Seniors and Juniors. They have great strength in depth with a breath of experience that suits a variety of cases that I have been involved in over time. I have never had any issues over the availability of a suitably good Barrister for any specific case.’
Public Procurement
‘Keating is a chambers that has a number of excellent advocates in the field.’
Client Service
‘In the wider team they have always been able to provide barristers to match our cases whether it be us requesting those we know or trusting their recommendation on those we don’t.’
‘Keating has a wonderful set of barristers, ably managed by a really nice bunch of clerks and marketing team.’
