Imran Benson

Imran Benson

Imran specialises in professional liability matters with particular experience in claims against lawyers, surveyors/valuers, accountants, auditors, estate agents, architects and builders.

He is often instructed in general commercial matters which frequently involve freezing injunctions, breach of restrictive covenants by former employees, banking disputes, the insolvency and collapse of partnerships and small companies and general contractual disputes. He is a member of Chambers' highly rated Costs Group and he regularly acts for and against solicitors suing clients for bills and in SCCO inter-party assessments. He also acts for both claimants and insurers in personal injury matters.

Imran has a longstanding interest in the overlap of human rights and arbitration, and has recently written on this subject for New Law Journal.

In appropriate cases Imran is able to accept instructions directly from businesses and individuals.

Email: imran.benson@hailshamchambers.com
Phone: 020 7643 5000

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Recent cases 

 

Year of call: 2005

Specialist areas: professional indemnity, commercial litigation, costs and personal injury

Education: Bristol University (LLB); Queen Mother Scholarship; Lady Templeman Indo-Goodwill Scholarship; Chancery Bar Lodge Essay Prize

Publications and lectures
"In search of justice" (June 2012) Imran writes for New Law Journal about the ability of arbitrations to provide access to justice

"Lies, loss and limitation: a general professional negligence up-date" (February 2011). A talk to the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association.

"CFA's: A defendant's guide" (December 2011). A talk to the Hill Dickinson Professional Negligence Team

 

 
  • Moizer v Westlakes [January 2012]. Acted for defendant solicitor accused of conveyancing negligence. 4 day trial. Won on causation. Claimant got nominal damages (and had to pay 90% of D's costs)
  • King v Goldsmith Insurance [Sept 2011]. Acted for Claimants in insurance broker's negligence case. FOS had found against clients, who also had limitation problems. Case settled for 75% of claimed sum after first morning
  • Kala v Crowe [November 2010]. Acted for defendant solicitor accused of negligent drafting of sale of business agreement. Alleged loss of circa £80,000. Claim discontinued after XX of Claimant
  • Eversheds v Brooks [2010]. Imran successfully acted for a solicitors' client in a 3 day trial of a costs dispute where the bill exceeded the estimate by a multiple of ten