Radcliffe Chambers shortlisted for four awards at The Legal 500 Awards 2019
We are delighted that Radcliffe Chambers and its members are shortlisted across four categories in The Legal 500 Awards 2019. Radcliffe Chambers is nominated for Insolvency Set of Year and Private Client: Trusts and Probate Set of the Year, and Tina Kyriakides has been nominated for both Insolvency Junior of the Year and Commercial Litigation Junior of the Year.
Densham v CCEW [2018] UKUT 0402 (TCC) – Allotments, enclosure awards and the mortmain red herring
Kate Selway has successfully represented the Charity Commission before the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery) in an appeal brought by local allotment holder Pauline Densham, who sought to argue that the wording of two mid 19th century enclosure awards allotting land in Hughenden, Bucks “on trust for the labouring poor” did not create a charitable […]
Application for permission to appeal dismissed in Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Ltd. v Lloyds Bank plc & Ors.
Following his reserved judgment dated 26 October 2018, on 3 December 2018 Morgan J heard an application by the representative beneficiaries for permission to appeal on the issues of (i) methodology and (ii) forfeiture. This application was refused, the Judge holding that neither proposed ground of appeal had a real prospect of success. The Judge also said […]
Keith Rowley KC featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2018
Head of Radcliffe Chambers Keith Rowley KC appears in one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2018, Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Ltd v Lloyds Bank plc & Ors, due to be heard in July 2018. Keith acts for the defendant banks in this landmark pensions case which, 28 years after the ECJ’s seminal […]
Fraudulent calumny decision upheld
Kate Selway acted for the successful respondent when Morgan J recently dismissed two applications for permission to appeal the decisions of Mr Recorder Lawrence Cohen KC following a two week trial earlier this year concerning consolidated claims of fraudulent calumny and undue influence. Morgan J’s judgments are a useful reminder of the rules for establishing […]
Avtar Khangure KC joins Radcliffe Chambers
Radcliffe Chambers is pleased to welcome leading commercial and chancery silk Avtar Khangure KC as an associate member. He is ranked in the top tier for commercial dispute resolution and restructuring/insolvency by Chambers UK Bar and Legal 500 Bar. Avtar Khangure KC was called to the Bar in 1985 and took silk in 2003. He […]
Mark Mullen appointed Insolvency and Companies Court Judge
We are pleased to announce that HM the Queen has appointed Mark Mullen to be an Insolvency and Companies Court Judge with effect from 17th December 2018, based at the Rolls Building, Royal Courts of Justice. Mark was called to the Bar in 2001 and undertook pupillage at 11 Old Square (the Chambers of Grant […]
Radcliffe Chambers wins Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year at the UK Diversity Legal Awards 2018
The Dystopia Pension Scheme: An everyday tale of pension administration – Talk by Elizabeth Ovey
Elizabeth Ovey recently delivered a talk at the Annual Conference of the Association of Pension Lawyers. The talk explored some of the problems which arise when it turns out that for several years a pension scheme has been administered on the wrong basis. You can read the talk here.
Macintyre & Anor v Oliver & Ors [2018] EWHC 3094 (Ch)
Justin Holmes and Josh Lewison appeared in this case, Justin representing executor trustees applying for directions and Josh representing St Bart’s Hospital, one of the named beneficiaries. The case concerned a wide range of issues. The first was whether a contingent gift could be saved under the rule in Jones v Whitcomb, which required a […]
