Katharine specialises in professional negligence and construction disputes. She has 14 years experience of advising insurers and has acted for solicitors, surveyors, construction professionals (including surveyors and engineers) and accountants as well as providing policy advice on a range of issues.
Katharine's significant cases include:
- · A £4m multi-party architect's negligence case settled at mediation.
- Acting for insurers on policy, and then for the insured following declinature of cover, in a multi-million pound engineer's negligence dispute concerning defective design of the foundations of a shopping centre.
- Defending a firm of solicitors in a £1.4m claim arising out of the drafting of rent review provisions in a commercial lease, settled for £200,000.
- Acting for a firm of solicitors in a complex tax dispute arising out of the drafting of a family trust, settled at mediation.
- Advising top-up insurers in a majorconstruction dispute on policy and claim issues.
Katharine trained in the City at Titmuss Sainer & Webb (now Dechert) and was at Beachcroft for 8 years where she was an associate, before joining Henmans in 2005.