We provide a wide range of advocacy and advisory services in the UK and internationally. We pride ourselves on our approachable and friendly outlook and our ability to build strong relationships with clients. Our barristers have received over 40 individual rankings covering 15 practice areas across the legal directories, including in Civil Fraud, Commercial Litigation, Insolvency and Travel amongst others. We are supported by a highly experienced, friendly and responsive practice management team, headed by James Donovan.
Georgia is ranked in the Legal 500 UK Bar Guide for London as a “Leading Junior” in Insolvency and a “Rising Star” in Banking and Finance who regard her as “punchy”, “bright”, “commercial”, “client focused” and “robust in submissions”.
Georgia has quickly gained a reputation for her impressive advocacy and advisory skills beyond her year of call, regularly being instructed as sole Counsel in high-value, complex and strategically significant cases across her range of specialisms. Georgia has substantial High Court trial experience and is often instructed as sole counsel against silks and senior juniors.
Georgia primarily acts in litigation involving accessorial liability, asset recovery/tracing, banking and financial services disputes, breach of fiduciary duty and trust, conspiracy and fraud and she has significant experience in company and insolvency disputes.
Georgia has significant experience acting for and against banks and other financial institutions in all aspects of banking and financial services disputes.
Georgia is ranked as a “Rising Star” by by the Legal 500 in Banking and Finance who comment she is “very user friendly, commercial and client focused. Robust in submissions and doesn’t back off a tricky argument”.
Georgia’s recent experience includes:
Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery
Georgia specialises in civil and commercial fraud. She primarily acts in litigation involving accessorial liability (including dishonest assistance and knowing receipt), asset recovery and tracing, breach of fiduciary and statutory duties, breach of trust, bribery, conspiracy, fraudulent misrepresentation and banking, financial and investment fraud.
The nature of Georgia’s practice means she has particular strength in acting in cases in which urgent relief is sought (primarily freezing, search and disclosure orders alongside proprietary injunctions) and she is experienced in international cases or those with jurisdictional issues and challenges.
Georgia’s recent experience as sole Counsel includes:
Georgia’s commercial practice covers a wide range of disputes and is complemented by her experience in corporate and insolvency disputes.
Georgia’s recent experience includes:
(1) Fulstow (2) Woods v Francis [2024] EWHC 2122 (Ch)
Successfully representing Mr Francis in a 5-day Chancery Division trial, where the Claimants alleged they had agreed to purchase 32% of shares in development land valued at £32 million, with a post-planning estimate of £100 million. The Judge dismissed the claims entirely and awarded indemnity costs against the Claimants. The case is significant and was widely reported for the Judge’s findings on the Claimants’ solicitor’s failure to comply with PD57AC, with the Judge finding that “false” certificates of compliance had been signed. This decision underscores the importance of adherence to procedural rules and the severe consequences of non-compliance in high-stakes commercial litigation.
Strengthening Georgia’s commercial litigation practice is her extensive experience in company and partnership litigation. Georgia regularly acts in shareholder disputes and has particular experience in disputes with allegations of breach of fiduciary duty.
Recent cases in which Georgia has been instructed as sole counsel include:
Georgia is ranked as a Leading Junior in Insolvency by the Legal 500 who comment she is “punchy” and “bright”.
Georgia is frequently instructed in claims brought by office-holders against company officers, predominantly for breach of fiduciary and statutory duty, fraud, misfeasance and antecedent transactions, alongside litigation involving banks and other third parties. Georgia has significant High Court trial experience in all aspects of insolvency litigation.
Georgia’s recent experience includes:
Re Mederco (Cardiff) Ltd [2021] EWHC 386 (Ch).
Application in the High Court relating to a defective administration extension where the consent of hundreds of international investors with claims exceeding £4.5 million, who should have been treated as secured creditors as holders of equitable liens, was not obtained. Significant judgment considering whether the Court can backdate a retrospective administration order for more than 364 days and determining that the post- Brexit legislation applied despite the order being backdated before the end of the transition period.
Retrospective administration order plus an extension obtained.
Georgia is experienced in directors’ and officers’ (D&O) claims and related coverage disputes, alongside claims against insolvency practitioners, in which she is particularly well positioned to act given her extensive experience in corporate and insolvency litigation.
Georgia regularly advises and acts (for both claimants and defendants) in claims concerning directors’ and officers’ breaches of fiduciary and statutory duty, insurance coverage disputes under D&O policies, claims with an insolvency element, proceedings brought pursuant to the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 and misfeasance proceedings against office-holders.
Georgia’s recent experience includes:
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