In this new podcast episode, Brenna Conroy, Barrister and Pupil Supervisor, is joined by Keating’s most recent tenants, Courtney Burrell-Eade and Connie Trendle, to offer practical insight and guidance on passing each stage of the Keating Chambers pupillage selection process. They work through each of the following four stages, offering an overview of what is involved and how best to prepare: 1) Application Form 2) Written Case Study 3) First Interview 4) Second Interview This episode is idea...
Nov 18, 2025
18 min
Welcome to the sixth and final episode of our Adjudication Webinar and Podcast Series. In this episode, Adam Walton, Mercy Milgo, and Lars Gladhaug discuss the relationship between adjudication and insolvency. By reference to recent caselaw, they consider the circumstances in which the Court (when faced with an application for summary judgment by an enforcing party in liquidation, administration, or under a CVA) will either refuse to grant summary judgment, or grant it but order a stay of exe...
Jun 11, 2025
22 min
Welcome to the third instalment of the Adjudication and Adjudication Enforcement webinar and podcast series. In this episode, Harriet Di Francesco and John Steel explore smash and grab vs. true value adjudications. Harriet and John define these two types of adjudications, highlighting the key distinction between them. They also analyse the jurisdictional implications of smash and grab and true value adjudications for enforcement, with reference to several key cases. Please note that this pod...
Mar 3, 2025
25 min
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is ‘Inspire Inclusion’. In that spirit, Keating barristers Lucy Garrett KC and Emma Healiss have invited three incredibly inspirational women: Emily Monastiriotis (Head of Dispute Resolution at Simmons & Simmons), Kate Corby (Partner at Baker & McKenzie); and Theresa Mohammed (Partner at Watson Farley Williams), to discuss their experiences within the legal and construction industries and how they think this space has become and can continue...
Mar 8, 2024
38 min
This is the last in our series of podcasts to mark 150 years of the Technology and Construction Courts, a series where we have highlighted some of the key cases where the TCC has influenced the development of the law. In this episode, Tom Lazur, Brenna Conroy and Charlie Thompson look into the legal black hole and the case of Alfred McAlpine Construction v Panatown, a judgment handed down in 2000. It is one of the few cases where the issue came before the House of Lords twice in ...
Jan 31, 2024
44 min
This is the fourth in a series of podcasts coming this year, all recorded to celebrate 150 years of the Technology and Construction Court (TCC). In each episode, Keating barristers will choose one leading case from the TCC and review its significance. In this special episode Sam Townend KC chairs a discussion between counsel who acted in the first reported case on ten year new-build home insurance policies, Marchant v Caswell [1976] 2 EGLR 23, Lord Grabiner KC (One Essex Court), Profess...
Oct 25, 2023
1 hr 6 min
This is the third in a series of podcasts coming this year, all recorded to celebrate 150 years of the Technology and Construction Court (TCC). In each episode, Keating barristers will choose one leading case from the TCC and review how it has faired over the years, including discussion of subsequent cases that have focused on it. In this episode James Thompson, Tom Coulson, Tom Walker and Isobel Kamber have taken a slightly different approach to the series and discuss one of the most signifi...
Jul 20, 2023
49 min
This is the second in a series of podcasts coming this year, all recorded to celebrate 150 years of the Technology and Construction Court (TCC). In each episode, Keating barristers will chose one leading case from the TCC and review how it has faired over the years, including discussion of subsequent cases that have focused on it. In this episode Calum Lamont KC and Paul Buckingham KC discuss the scope of ‘fitness for purpose’ obligations in construction contracts, starting with arguably the...
May 11, 2023
36 min
This episode, hosted by Marie Sparkes, celebrates International Women's Day and explores 2023’s “embrace equity” theme. It showcases the variety of roles women play within Chambers and highlights the steps Keating have taken towards achieve equity in the workplace. Marie is joined by Lucy Garrett KC, Alice Sims, Alison Crosland and Amy Barrie who share their experiences, from “unconventional” career paths and challenges they have faced along the way, to positive developments they have seen wi...
Mar 8, 2023
54 min
This is the first in a series of podcasts coming this year, all recorded to celebrate 150 years of the Technology and Construction Court (TCC). In each episode, Keating barristers will chose one leading case from the TCC and review how it has faired over the years, including discussion of subsequent cases that have focused on it. In this episode, Head of Chambers, Alexander Nissen KC, is joined by Jennie Wild and Emma Healiss to discuss the landmark judgment in RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molk...
Jan 25, 2023
40 min
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