Kate Selway KC talks to The Times about dress codes at the Bar
Kate Selway KC was recently quoted in an article by Catherine Baksi in The Times on dress codes for barristers, endorsing an inclusive approach. Subscribers can read the article here.
Radcliffe Chambers ranked as a leading London barristers chambers in Chambers UK Bar 2022
Radcliffe Chambers is proud to be ranked for another year in Chambers UK Bar. Radcliffe and its members are recognised as leaders in their fields across all our key practice areas, including commercial, chancery, charities, Court of Protection, pensions, professional negligence, private client, real estate litigation, and restructuring and insolvency. Congratulations to all those at […]
Supreme Court judgment in Tinkler v HMRC [2021] UKSC 39
On 30 July 2021, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the case of Tinkler v HMRC, which relates to the law of estoppel by convention. Nicholas Macklam acted for the successful appellant (HMRC), led by Malcolm Gammie CBE KC (One Essex Court) and Michael Jones KC (Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers). This is the first […]
Radcliffe Chambers ranked in Chambers HNW 2021
We are delighted to announce that 18 barristers at Radcliffe Chambers have been included in Chambers HNW 2021, a pre-eminent ranking of private wealth advisers in the UK and abroad. Radcliffe Chambers is also ranked as a leading set for private client law. Congratulations to our barristers and clerks for receiving such fantastic feedback. Radcliffe […]
Bishop of Leeds v. Dixon Coles & Gill – solicitors’ fraud and limitations
Thomas Dumont KC (assisted by Poppy Rimington-Pounder, also of Radcliffe Chambers) and Derek Bambury & Lisa Henty of Browne Jacobson LLP succeeded in the Court of Appeal today in establishing that solicitors can (despite Lewin on Trustees’ view to the contrary) rely on the innocent trustees’ 6-year limitation period, even when their fraudulent partner had […]
Radcliffe Chambers shortlisted for the UK Social Mobility Awards
We are delighted to announce that Radcliffe Chambers is a finalist in the fifth annual UK Social Mobility Awards. The awards recognise organisations who are making strides and creating initiatives to advance social mobility within their own workforce or beyond their own walls. They were the first national awards dedicated to social mobility, recognising the […]
Bird v Lantern Recovery & Others
Thomas Dumont KC and Matthew Fletcher & Ben Marsden of Gosschalks LLP have obtained a hugely successful outcome for their clients in a recent undue influence and forgery case, in the Business & Property Courts (the old Chancery Division) of the High Court. Following a two-week, hard-fought trial, their clients David Bird and Sharon Montgomery, […]
Court of Appeal upholds transfer of privilege in joint retainer files
Travelers Insurance Company Ltd v Armstrong & Anor [2021] EWCA Civ 978 On 1 July 2021, judgment was handed down in a significant appeal by Travelers Insurance Company Ltd, the insurers of leading breast implant supplier Transform Medical Group (CS) Ltd, against Travelers’ Insolvency Act administrators, Martin Armstrong and James Patchett and its joint solicitors, […]
Former Supervisors of the Regis UK Ltd CVA succeed in obtaining costs order against landlords following failed claim against them
Following his judgment rejecting the claims of commercial landlords against the former Supervisors of the Regis UK Ltd CVA, Zacaroli J has confirmed in a separate judgment that whilst the landlords succeeded as against the Company in having the CVA revoked on one ground; as against the Supervisors, the landlords had failed and the former […]
Re Regis UK Limited [2021] EWHC 1294 (Ch)
Landlords fail in their attempt to force Nominees to return their fees and in their bid to establish a meaningful precedent in their ongoing fight against CVAs In a judgment handed down on Monday 17th May 2021 in Re Regis UK Limited [2021] EWHC 1294 (Ch), Zacaroli J revoked an already long-since terminated CVA, but […]
