Lars Gladhaug, Mercy Milgo and Adam Walton join Keating Chambers
Date: 20 September 2023
We are pleased to announce that Lars Gladhaug, Mercy Milgo and Adam Walton have joined Keating Chambers with effect from Wednesday 20 September, following the successful completion of their pupillages.
Lars has a BA from the University of Cambridge and an MSt from the University of Oxford. During his pupillage at Keating, Lars gained particular experience of High Court adjudication matters (enforcement and resisting enforcement). He also gained experience of defect claims and bond claims, along with litigation matters across the spectrum of Chambers’ specialisms. He has worked on matters involving JCT and NEC standard form contracts, as well as bespoke agreements.
Before joining Keating, Lars worked as in-house counsel for a market-leading financial technology company based in London, where he was involved in a wide range of matters including contract drafting and negotiations, strategic outsourcings, financing, and submissions to financial and economic regulators. Lars was the winner of the Society for Construction Law’s 2022 SCL Hudson Prize, for his paper on recent developments in the law relating to building safety and the Defective Premises Act of 1972.
Mercy has an LLB in Law from the University of Westminster and a BCL from the University of Oxford. During pupillage, Mercy gained experience of Chambers’ main practice areas including construction and engineering (particularly building and fire safety disputes), professional negligence, procurement and competition, adjudication, insurance, international arbitration and energy and natural resources. In addition to assisting on contentious and advisory matters in those fields, Mercy has also been instructed as sole counsel at County Court hearings.
Before commencing pupillage, Mercy spent a year at Keating Chambers as the Chambers’ Legal Assistant. As part of this role, she assisted arbitrators, carried out legal research on live cases for barristers (including on Martlet Homes Limited v Mulalley & Co. Limited [2022], the first decision from the TCC on fire safety (external wall insulation) following Grenfell) and was involved in various publications including Keating on NEC (2nd edition) in which she is listed as a contributing author. Having grown up in Kenya, Mercy is fluent in Swahili and is familiar with the Eastern African region.
Adam has an LLB in Law from the University of York and a BCL from the University of Oxford. During pupillage, Adam’s work encompassed a wide range of practice areas, including construction and engineering, professional negligence, commercial, and procurement. He has worked on cases involving a variety of standard form contracts, including the JCT, NEC, and FIDIC, as well as bespoke construction contracts, insurance contracts, guarantees and bonds.
Before coming to the Bar, Adam worked at the Law Commission of England and Wales as a Research Assistant on the ‘Termination of Tenancies’ project and at the Court of Appeal as Lord Justice Coulson’s Judicial Assistant. Adam has also published work in several leading law journals, and has been cited in a number of further academic pieces. Most notably his recent work on the scope of duty in negligence was cited by Lady Justice Carr (as she then was) in her 2022 Blundell Lecture: “The Supreme Court on SAAMCO: Has it Reached its Summit?”.
