Jessie Barnett-Cox (Pupil)
Jessie has worked on complex commercial and international disputes since 2020, having spent five years as an Associate in Skadden’s top-tier International Litigation and Arbitration team before moving to the Bar. Jessie is currently supervised by Daniel Burton, having previously sat with Andrew Brown.
William Fitzalan Howard (Pupil)
Re MIR Limited [2025] ORD21/0001, ORD21/0002 & ORD21/0009
Zachary Kell appeared before the First Deemster of the High Court (Isle of Man) in a two-day hearing of applications relating to complex issues of disclosure. The underlying proceedings are three claims, namely (i) a minority oppression claim, (ii) a claim for, inter alia, taking confidential/commercially sensitive information, and (iii) a claim for secret profits. […]
Commercial Court judgment handed down in 10-year fraud proceedings
Commercial Court judgment handed down in 10-year-long US$325m West African oil trading fraud proceedings. Last week, following a three-month trial, Mr Justice Henshaw handed down judgment in Alta Trading UK (formerly known as Arcadia Petroleum Limited) v. Bosworth [2025] EWHC 91 (Comm). This was a long-running dispute, which has come before courts at various levels in […]
Magomedov & Ors v Kuzovkov & Ors [2024] EWHC 2527 (Comm)
A Norwich Pharmacal application (“NP Application”) can be a very useful tool in the armoury of a claimant – particularly in fraud cases – trying to establish sufficient information to be able pursue the ultimate wrongdoer. But what form should an NP Application take? The Chancery Guide at §14.81 states that NP Applications “…should be […]
Rachel Lane
Throughout pupillage, Rachel gained experience across the full spectrum of Chambers’ traditional and commercial chancery work. She was supervised by Martin Ouwehand, Josh Lewison, Dawn McCambley and Nathan Wells. Before coming to the Bar, Rachel was the sole fee earner in the Private Client department of a regional law firm, where she advised on wills, […]
Samuel Lane
During his pupillage, Sam was supervised by Joshua Winfield, Zachary Kell, Kate Rogers, and Kate Selway KC. He gained experience across the full spectrum of Chambers’ work, from commercial and insolvency disputes to private client and charities litigation. Prior to coming to the Bar, Sam studied and taught History at the University of Oxford. He […]
Identity Fraud: Intercepting fraudulent conveyancing transactions
Peter Dodge was kindly invited by the Deutsch-Britische Juristenvereinigung e.V. and the British-German Jurists’ Association to speak at their joint conference in Wiesbaden on 13th to 15th September 2024. With Dr Maximilian Kübler-Wachendorff (Notary Public and Speaker at the German Notary Institute) and Duncan Grehan of Duncan Grehan & Partners (Dublin), Peter co-presented a session […]
Judgment handed down in “Hollywood blockbuster” Upham et Ors v HSBC Bank plc
On 26 April 2024, Mr Justice Bright handed down judgment in Upham et Ors v HSBC Bank plc, previously called a “Hollywood blockbuster” of a case by the Lawyer in its Top 20 list of cases for 2024. Zachary Kell appeared as junior counsel (led by Philip Coppel KC) in a 9-week trial in the […]
Simon Mills successfully opposed mandatory injunction
Last month it was reported that that Unicorn Payment Ltd has settled its £5.1 million claim against Worldpay (UK) Ltd in which it asserted Worldpay had wrongly withheld remittances under a payment facilitation agreement. This follows Unicorn’s attempt last year to obtain a mandatory interim injunction that Worldpay should part of the sums withheld before […]
