ELKINGTON, Ben KC

Over 30 years’ experience of advising and representing policyholders, insurers and reinsurers in the full range of non-marine insurance disputes. Work involves both domestic and international disputes, and includes litigation and arbitration, both in the UK and abroad. While continuing that work, also now acts as an arbitrator, a role for which his background makes him ideally suited.

• Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. in Law)
• University of Virginia, USA (M.A. in Law)
• Admitted to the New York Bar (1995)
• Admitted to the English Bar (1996)
• Admitted to the Bar of the Cayman Islands (2016) (ad hoc)

• Tenant at 4 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, 1997 to date
• Appointed Queen’s Counsel 2012
• Former Adviser to the Insurance Brokers Standards Council
• Judicial Assistant to the Court of Appeal, 1998
• Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, 1994-1995

Practising King’s Counsel at 4 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn

• Member of British Insurance Law Association
• Member of Commercial Bar Association
• Member of Professional Negligence Bar Association
• Member of the London Bar Association
• Panel Member ARIAS (UK)

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