Radcliffe Chambers recognised as a Top 75 employer in the 2021 Social Mobility Employment Index
Radcliffe Chambers are proud to announce that we have been recognised as a Top 75 employer in the 2021 Social Mobility Employment Index. We are the only Barrister Chambers to be listed this year. The Social Mobility Employment Index was created by the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) in 2017. They were the first national awards […]
Radcliffe Chambers highly commended at The Lawyer Awards 2021
We are delighted to be highly commended for Chambers of the Year at the 2021 Lawyer Awards. Thank you to our clients for their support, and our staff and barristers for their hard work. Radcliffe Chambers’ Chief Executive, Fiona Fitzgerald, and commercial and insolvency silk, David Mohyuddin KC, made a short video for The Lawyer […]
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.
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 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 […]
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, […]
Radcliffe Chambers hosts award-winning student barrister experience programme for fourth year
Yesterday evening saw the final session of Radcliffe’s 2021 sixth-form barrister experience programme, hosted in collaboration with leading legal youth organisation, BVL. This is the second year that Radcliffe Chambers has hosted the programme online, and fourth year that the programme has taken place. It won Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year: Chambers at […]
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 […]