Poppy Rimington-Pounder
Call: 2018
Barrister
Poppy has a broad chancery practice spanning all of chambers’ core practice areas, with a particular interest in private client matters. She regularly appears as a sole advocate in the County Court and the High Court, both in-person and remotely.
Poppy is currently taking a break from practice to work in the office of the Shadow Attorney General, Emily Thornberry MP, and is not accepting instructions at this time.
Poppy is regularly instructed in a broad range of private client matters. Her recent work includes:
- Dixon Coles & Gill (A Former Firm) v Baines, Bishop of Leeds & Anor [2021] EWCA Civ 1097 – assisting Thomas Dumont KC, who successfully argued that law firm partners could rely on the innocent trustees’ 6-year limitation period under section 21 of the Limitation Act 1980, even when their fraudulent partner had stolen the proceeds of conveyancing transactions
- Advising and acting in probate claims concerning testamentary capacity, knowledge and approval, undue influence and fraudulent calumny
- Advising and acting in claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
- Acting in applications for vesting orders
- Advising on a claim for an account against the de facto trustees of a will trust
- Advising on and drafting applications for the removal of personal representatives
- Olga Vladimirovna Scherbakova et al v Brigita Morina et al BVIHCM 2018/0134 – (as a secondee) drafting submissions on behalf of certain beneficiaries of an estate in relation to the costs of an application by an estate’s administrators for the assessment of their remuneration, expenses and disbursements, which had been unsuccessfully opposed by another beneficiary
Poppy also gained experience in a broad range of wills, trusts and estates matters during her pupillage, including:
- Burgess v Penny [2019] EWHC 2034 (Ch) – assisting counsel in a probate dispute concerning the due execution of a will and want of knowledge and approval; assisting counsel at the costs and consequential directions hearing following judgment
- Assisting counsel at the mediation of a dispute over an allegedly forged will
- Assisting counsel at a financial dispute resolution hearing of a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 in relation to an estate worth £8.8 million
- Hilton v Cosnier [2018] EWHC 2728 (Ch) – shadowing counsel in a claim to determine whether there had been a valid declaration of a trust
Poppy regularly attends possession hearings and has experience in a broad range of property matters. Her recent work includes:
- Acting in claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
- Advising and acting in proprietary estoppel claims
- Acting and advising in claims under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
- Acting in forfeiture proceedings
- Acting in section 8, section 21 and Rent Act 1977 possession proceedings
- Acting in applications for charging orders
- Advising on easements and restrictive covenants
Poppy regularly appears in the High Court and County Court on bankruptcy petitions, winding-up petitions, and other insolvency and company law matters. Her recent work includes:
- Acting on behalf of a trustee in bankruptcy in a private examination; at its conclusion, she successfully argued that a personal costs order should be made against the examinee
- Acting in applications to re-use company names
- Acting in applications for administration extensions
- Acting in applications to fix office-holders’ remuneration
- Acting in an application to rectify the Companies House register
- Assisting senior junior counsel in an unfair prejudice petition
- (As a secondee) assisting with applications to appoint soft touch provisional liquidators
Poppy is regularly instructed to appear as an advocate, advise and settle pleadings in commercial disputes. Her recent work includes:
- Settling pleadings in disputes over the sale of property, including claims for the return of deposits or for damages following failure to complete
- Settling pleadings for breach of contract in disputes over the provision of software and software engineering services
- Advising in misrepresentation claims
- (As a secondee) settling pleadings in a claim for unjust enrichment worth US $1.2 million
- BPTC, City Law School (Outstanding) (2017-2018)
- GDL, City Law School (Commendation) (2016-2017)
- BA in Classics, New College, University of Oxford (First Class) (2011-2015)
Poppy read Classics at New College, Oxford, and graduated in 2015 with a Double First. She then taught Classics (and coached football) at Winchester College before coming to the Bar.
- Wolfson Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn) (2018)
- Buchanan Prize (Lincoln’s Inn) (2018)
- Winner of The Times 2TG Moot 2018
- Lord Denning Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn) (2017)
- Hardwicke Entrance Award (Lincoln’s Inn) (2017)
- Academic Scholarship (City Law School) (2017)
- Lord Haldane Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn) (2016)
- Charles Oldham Scholarship (University of Oxford) (2013)
- Academic Scholarship (New College, University of Oxford) (2013)
During her legal studies Poppy participated in a number of mooting competitions, becoming a finalist in the City Law School GDL Moot 2017 and winning The Times 2TG Moot 2018.
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.