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.
The breadth of the practices of many members of Chambers is such that there are rarely issues of fact and law that have not been encountered to some extent before; though members also have specialisms in particular fields of expertise, such as insurance, financial services, banking, complex financial products (especially derivatives), the sale of goods, civil fraud, commercial judicial review, shareholder disputes, directors’ duties and the law of insolvency. Members of Chambers are particularly well placed to advise and represent clients in cases that cross boundaries between areas of law.
Members have unparalleled experience of appellate work, especially in the Supreme Court and the Privy Council where they have together appeared in hundreds of reported cases, and they are known for the high quality of their advocacy.
Much of Chambers’ work has an international character, with many clients overseas and members appearing in courts and arbitrations overseas. Chambers is also well known for its expertise in private international law.
Pakistan International Airline Corp v Times Travel (UK) Ltd [2023] A.C. 101, the leading modern case in the Supreme Court as to the circumstances in which a contract may be rescinded for economic duress.
Sevilleja v Marex Financial Ltd [2021] A.C. 39, the leading modern decision of the Supreme Court on the ‘reflective loss’ principle in company law.
Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago v Trinsalvage Enterprises Ltd [2023] 1 W.L.R. 4045, in which Lord Burrows (for the majority) and Lord Briggs (in the minority) disagreed about whether work done under a void contract with the government attracted a right to recover a quantum meruit in the law of unjust enrichment.
Lux Locations v Yida Zhang [2023] UKPC 3, in which the Privy Council, in this long-running commercial dispute in the Eastern Caribbean, recast the law as to the court’s duties when considering an application for default judgment in a case where the judge must give ‘such judgment as the claimant is entitled to on the statement of case’ (CPR r.12.12(1)).
Musst Holdings Limited v Astra Asset Management UK Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 128, about the non-applicability of a no-oral-variation clause to a novation.
R (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking) v Financial Conduct Authority, an ongoing challenge to the lawfulness of the FCA’s response to a report critical of its scheme for providing redress to the victims of mis-selling of interest-rate-hedging products.
Fossil (Gibraltar) Ltd v Commissioner of Income Tax (C-705/20) (2022), a decision of the European Court of Justice about the recovery of unlawful state aid.
Lifestyle Equities CV v Ahmed [2021] Bus. L.R. 1020, in which the Court of Appeal considered the principles of personal accessory liability for torts committed by a company. Judgment is pending on the appeal to the Supreme Court.
Betamax Ltd v State Trading Corporation [2021] UKPC 14, [2021] Bus LR 1253, a decision of the Privy Council on the construction of the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law 1985 in connection with public policy.
Official Receiver v Batmanghelidjh [2021] EWHC 175 (Ch), in which members of Chambers successfully defended the late Camilla Batmanghelidjh against disqualification in the aftermath of the collapse of the charity, Kids Company.
Re Paramount Powders (UK) Ltd [2020] B.C.L.C. 1, where the Court of Appeal gave guidance about the relevance of the claimant’s own misconduct to a claim to wind a company up on the ‘just and equitable’ ground.
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