Harry Smith (Keating Chambers) has a busy commercial practice with a particular emphasis on construction and engineering, energy, professional negligence, and insurance work. He regularly appears as advocate in the TCC and recently appeared as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal for the successful Respondent in Herons Court v NHBC Building Control Services Ltd, concerning an attempt to extend s. 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 to approved inspectors. He is also junior counsel in a number of heavy international arbitrations concerning, variously, projects in Qatar, Dubai, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Kazakhstan.