Following the successful completion of their pupillages, we are delighted to announce that Edmund Crawley and Youcef Boussabaine have joined Keating Chambers with effect from 18 September 2024.
Edmund was awarded First Class in BA Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion from the University of Cambridge, and went on to achieve a Distinction in both the Post-Graduate Diploma in Law and Bar Professional Training Course at BPP. During his pupillage, Edmund’s work encompassed a wide variety of practice areas, including construction, engineering, professional negligence, marine and offshore, and planning. He assisted on both contentious and advisory matters within these fields, including trial preparation for TCC hearings, and has been instructed to draft statements of case in his own right. His work has also covered a range of alternative dispute resolution, including adjudication and arbitration (including ADCCAC and CIMAR rules).
Before starting his pupillage, Edmund spent a year working as a Judicial Assistant for Lord Justice Phillips and the Lady Chief Justice Carr in the Court of Appeal. Edmund also spent several months working for Scotia Group, an international thinktank formed to provide proposals and strategies for parties at COP26, and was awarded their Stanley Hoffman Louise Richardson Prize.
Youcef has a Bachelor of Law (First Class) from the University of Oxford, and went on to complete the Bar Professional Training Course at the University of Law. During his pupillage at Keating, Youcef worked across Chambers’ core practice areas, including construction & engineering, infrastructure, energy, international arbitration, and technology. He gained substantial experience with all common standard forms including JCT, NEC, FIDIC, and bespoke construction contracts, as well as PFI agreements, guarantees and bonds. Youcef also contributed to the latest edition of Keating on Construction Contracts due to be launched at the end of the year.
Before coming to the Bar, Youcef was awarded a number of prizes while studying law at Oxford, including the Littleton Chambers Prize in Labour Law for best performance in Finals. Youcef was also a non-stipendiary lecturer in Contract and Land Law at Christ Church College, Oxford and the Queen’s College, Oxford, respectively.
