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Commercial dispute resolution overview

We are a leading chambers for heavyweight and complex commercial litigation and are recognised for our excellence in this area by the legal directories.

Our practice covers both domestic and international disputes, stretching across the globe. We have particular strength in relation to disputes involving the Middle East, Caribbean, South America and Gibraltar (see International) which is recognised in both Chambers and Partners (UK Bar and Global) and The Legal 500.

We cover disputes being litigated but also those subject to other forms of ADR such as arbitration and mediation (see ADR Hub).

The standing of our team is underlined by the fact that Nigel Jones KC was awarded Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2022, and listed in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 List for 2022.

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Recognition

“"Gatehouse is a go-to set for commercial litigation matters."”The Legal 500, 2025

“"Gatehouse are a top-tier set with excellent barristers."”The Legal 500, 2025

“"Gatehouse Chambers offers a wide spectrum of expertise across commercial litigation at all levels of call."”The Legal 500, 2025

News

Gatehouse Chambers welcomes David Lipson and Callum Reid-Hutchings as members

04/10/2024

Gatehouse members appointed to Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel

13/08/2024

Charles Bagot KC and David Pliener KC elected Joint Heads of Chambers, and heartfelt thanks to Brie Stevens-Hoare KC

28/06/2024

Chambers Global 2024

15/02/2024

Gatehouse Chambers featured in two cases in The Lawyer’s ‘Top 20 Cases of 2024’

10/01/2024

Charles Raffin called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands

07/11/2023

Dubai Arbitration Week 2023

27/10/2023

Gatehouse Chambers at the IBA Annual Conference, Paris

25/10/2023

Articles

BHS directors liable for trading misfeasance in the sum of more than £110m (Wright and others v Chappell and others; Re BHS Group Limited)

12/09/2024

The UK ratifies the 2019 Hague Convention on the recognition and enforcement of judgments in cross-border disputes

02/09/2024

Arbitration, submitting to the jurisdiction, and summary assessment of costs: discouraging unmeritorious points

02/09/2024

Court of Appeal—inexpedient to grant freezing injunction in support of purely foreign proceedings (Mex Group Worldwide Ltd v Ford)

28/08/2024

Forging documents in litigation constituted an unlawful means conspiracy (Takhar v Gracefield Developments Ltd and others)

21/08/2024

King Crude Carriers SA -v- Ridgebury November LLC [2024] EWCA Civ 719: English contract law recognises doctrine of ‘deemed fulfilment’ of a condition precedent

07/08/2024

RTI Ltd v MUR Shipping BV: Reasonable endeavours provisos do not require parties to accept non-contractual performance

07/08/2024

Leaseholder responsibility for post-Grenfell remediation of defective cladding (Lehner v Lant Street Management Co Ltd)

02/08/2024

Upcoming events

Association of Costs Lawyers’ (ACL) Annual London Conference

11/10/2024

Past events

‘The Funding of Disputes’, Commercial Litigation Association

19/09/2024

IBA Annual Conference, Mexico City

15/09/2024

LIDW: Onshore and offshore – effective teamwork

07/06/2024

LIDW: Legal implications and consequences of IT systems’ failures

06/06/2024

LIDW: Lawyer (mis)behaviour in international arbitration

05/06/2024

LIDW: Is Manifest Disregard just another way to achieve a section 69 challenge?

05/06/2024

Unlawful Means Conspiracy – What does it mean today?

09/05/2024

Franchising Half Day (In-Person Conference)

18/04/2024

Videos

A glitch in the matrix: will the law on mistake evolve to meet the AI challenge?

15/04/2024

AI and IP: is this the next litigation frontier and is AI too big to be regulated?

18/03/2024

Artificial Intelligence: the past, the present and the future

08/12/2023

Brew: where now for litigation funding? The likely impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others [2023] UKSC 28

28/07/2023

Franchising Conference: The imminent competition law reform

13/02/2023

Franchising Conference: Case law update

13/02/2023

Franchising Conference: Meta or metaphorical – the future of franchising

13/02/2023

Franchising Conference: Post-termination restrictions

13/02/2023

Books

A Practical Guide to Adding or Amending Parties or Causes of Action to a Claim in Civil Proceedings

09/08/2023

A Practical Guide to Solicitor and Client Costs

28/01/2019

Lender Claims

28/01/2019

Cousins: The Law of Mortgages

28/01/2019

Contact details

Gatehouse Chambers

1 Lady Hale Gate, Gray's Inn

London, WC1X 8BS, UK

Tel.: +44 (0)20 7242 2523

DX: LDE 393

Commercial dispute resolution