Technology & Construction

Henderson Chambers is widely recognised as one of the leading sets in IT and construction law. Chambers UK 2025 notes that “Henderson Chambers is an established name for IT litigation” with “expertise that allows them to take on novel mandates”.

Our case work includes software defects, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cryptocurrencies, connected and autonomous vehicles, fintech, complex contractual issues and failure of large IT projects. Clients include government departments, national agencies, local authorities, the emergency services, financial institutions, companies in the private sector and hardware and software suppliers. Members regularly appear before the TCC, in arbitrations, and in courts at all levels.

Henderson Chambers is consistently at the forefront of technology law including obtaining the first injunction served by Twitter, the first injunction to prevent the use of an illegal BitTorrent, cases concerning Initial Coin Offerings of crypto-tokens, and matters concerning autonomous vehicles. This is a long established tradition, with members of chambers having acted in St Albans’ DC v ICL, the first case to establish a distinct body of law relating to software, which remains the leading authority on software defects.

Members of chambers acted for the 555 sub-postmasters in the landmark Post Office litigation, establishing that the Horizon software had bugs and errors, and was not robust. Members also act (on both the claimant and defendant sides) in the massive emissions litigation concerning alleged ‘defeat device’ software in vehicles, involving  complex software and vehicle technical engineering issues.