Kylie Poyner

Kylie has extensive experience in defending a wide variety of professionals, but specialises in large claims against commercial surveyors and claims against schools and universities.

Kylie also specialises in advising insurers on complex policy coverage issues and delivers in-house training to clients on coverage.

Relevant experience includes:

• Kylie is currently the lead lawyer on a £54 million claim against a national surveyor involving an alleged under-sale of a large property portfolio. The claim also involves public law issues.
• Advising universities in respect of claims against them arising out of their handling of sexual abuse allegations.
• Acting in the successful strike out of a £200,000 claim against a university arising out of race discrimination.
• Acting in the reported case of UK Insurance Limited v Construction Auditing Services [2019] EWHC 1588 (TCC) in the successful strike out, on the grounds of limitation, of a £650,000 claim against the Defendant. This resulted in an early conclusion of the claim and also saved significant costs.
• Advising on scope of notification issues concerning multiple defects in an office building, as well as on round the clock reinstatement issues on a surveyor’s policy.

Kylie is recognised by the Legal 500 as a “rising star”.