Camilla ter Haar

Camilla has wide-ranging commercial experience including commercial fraud, general contractual disputes and insolvency matters. 

Camilla is part of the legal team advising the Foskett Panel, the independent panel assessing the direct and consequential losses suffered by victims of the fraud committed at the HBOS Impaired Assets unit based at Reading.

Examples of Camilla’s commercial experience include:

• Arbitration: an international arbitration arising from a trade dispute between a British manufacturer and the Taiwanese government.
• Commercial Court: claim for unpaid invoices by a Saudi Arabian law firm against a German construction company.
• Chancery Division: Rowley v Dunlop [2014] EWHC 1995 Successfully resisted an application to strike out a claim based on the alleged inadmissibility of expert evidence.
• ICC Arbitration: multi-million pound claim and counter-claim arising out of infrastructure (water treatment) works in the Middle East, including defects and delay issues.
• ICC Arbitration: multi-million pound contract termination claim arising out of major Middle East infrastructure project.

Camilla was instructed as junior counsel to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, led by Richard Millett KC and Kate Grange KC. Her experience on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has given her a wealth of experience in analysing building defects and fire safety breaches. Her focus related to façade construction, issues relating to fire spread, and testing and certification of materials. Camilla has particular expertise in relation to fire safety strategies as well as the complex issues concerning cladding works and the requirements introduced by the Building Safety Act 2022. 

Camilla’s specialisation in contractual and construction disputes is reflected in her co-authoring “Remedies in Construction Law”, published by Routledge (3rd edition, 2025).

• Remedies in Construction Law brings together various well-established strands of the law and considers practical remedies for breach of contract and tort in connection with construction projects. The third edition brings the text up to date with significant new cases in respect of duress, force majeure and liquidated damages. It also features new content on retention clauses, remedies associated with Grenfell Tower type cladding, bonds and variation clauses.

Camilla’s practice frequently requires her involvement in international and domestic construction disputes. Camilla also has adjudication experience. Camilla regularly records a podcast with Ruth Keating on construction law and climate change issues. They are joined by industry guests to discuss the current and future issues facing the construction sector in relation to sustainability and net zero goals.

Examples of Camilla’s construction and engineering experience include:

• ICC Arbitration: multi-million pound claim and counter-claim arising out of infrastructure (water treatment) works in the Middle East, including defects and delay issues
• ICC Arbitration: multi-million pound contract termination claim arising out of major Middle East infrastructure project

Camilla has experience of and expertise in international arbitration, particularly in relation to disputes arising out of construction and infrastructure projects.

Experience includes:

• Acting as junior counsel in a multi-million-pound ICC arbitration on behalf of a Kuwaiti contractor in relation to a large plant in Qatar; 
• Acting as junior counsel in an international arbitration arising from a trade dispute between a British manufacturer and the Taiwanese government.;
• Acting as tribunal secretary in an ICC arbitration arising from a trade dispute between an Indian exporter and a trading agency.

Camilla has a significant practice in public inquiry work and was instructed as junior counsel to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, led by Richard Millett KC and Kate Grange KC. Her role on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry included advising and assisting in relation to disclosure and managing and analysing expert, documentary and witness evidence. 

Camilla was also instructed by a core participant in relation to disclosure matters relating to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry.

Camilla is part of the legal team providing support and advice to The Foskett Panel.

Camilla regularly records a podcast with Ruth Keating on the construction industry and climate change issues. They are joined by industry guests to discuss the big topics facing the sector in sustainable construction, adaptation, mitigation, and, in reaching net zero.

Camilla ter Haar is co-editor of The Law of Net Zero and Nature Positive (London Publishing Partnership, 2025).

•    This book is the first that provides a comprehensive overview of the law of net zero and nature positive across England and Wales. It sets out the relevant law, including consideration of the principal domestic legislation, namely the Climate Change Act 2008 and the Environment Act 2021, and how legal obligations in respect of net zero and nature positive translate across different sectors of the economy.

Camilla accepts a range of public international law matters instructions, including, for example, the following matters:

•    Provided advice regarding proposed women’s rights legislation in Sierra Leone.
•    Advised One World Action with regards to a draft trade union law in Cambodia.
•    Provided advice to ATT Legal with regards to non-governmental organisation (NGO) rights in the arms trade treaty negotiations.
•    Recently advised EDLC on indigenous land rights with regard to a proposed Malaysian Land Rights bill.
•    Advised the Western Sahara Campaign with regards to product labelling and the legality in international law of the practice of labelling produce originating from the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara as Moroccan.