Atkin Chambers

Atkin Chambers is a leading set of commercial barristers with an international reputation for advocacy and specialist legal advice in construction, engineering, energy, technology, and major infrastructure disputes. Its members have extensive experience in handling complex cases involving both technical and legal issues and are widely recognised as leaders in these fields.

The chambers’ work spans a broad range of disputes, including transport, oil and gas, renewables, water and sanitation, IT and telecommunications, shipbuilding and conversion, and social infrastructure projects. Many cases involve wider commercial and professional negligence issues connected to these sectors. Notable UK disputes have included landmark projects such as The Shard, Wembley Stadium, the Olympic Village, the Channel Tunnel, The British Library, The Rolls Building, Heathrow Terminal 5, the M25, and London Underground. Internationally, members are frequently instructed on substantial transport and energy projects, often cross-border and involving multiple jurisdictions.

In the UK, members regularly appear before the High Court, Appellate Courts, and the Supreme Court, as well as in commercial arbitrations seated in London and abroad. They practise in leading arbitration centres worldwide and handle proceedings under the rules of major institutions including the ICC, LCIA, DIAC, HKIAC, and SIAC. Members and door tenants also act as arbitrators, adjudicators, mediators, experts in determinations, members of international dispute boards, and chairs of public inquiries.

Chambers contributes significantly to legal scholarship, authoring and editing key texts such as the Building Law Reports and the International Construction Law Review. Since 1959, Atkin Chambers has edited Hudson’s Building and Engineering Contracts, a seminal work on construction law cited across many common law jurisdictions.

International and UK dispute resolution practice areas: Commercial; Construction and engineering; Energy and natural resources; Infrastructure and PFI/PPP; International arbitration; IT and telecommunications; Professional negligence; Shipbuilding and offshore construction; Transport.