Piers Digby
Piers has previously taken secondments at both the Financial Conduct Authority and a leading UK bank, and has a thorough understanding of regulatory issues relating to banking and consumer credit more widely. He knows how to work with solicitors and clients under challenging conditions, combining legal ability beyond his call with an approachable manner. Prior […]
Junior Programme: Commercial
Join us for Junior Programme: Commercial webinar presented by Poppy Rimington-Pounder and James Fagan on Thursday, 15 April 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Poppy will be considering when a parent company may be found liable for the acts of its subsidiary, and considering the recent Supreme Court case of Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch […]
Jamie Cockfield
Before coming to the Bar, Jamie worked at an energy analytics consultancy founded by Oxford University professors and economists. Jamie received an Arts, Humanities and Research Council (AHRC) doctoral scholarship for a DPhil (PhD) in History at the University of Oxford, which he completed in 2015. His doctorate was a socio-legal study of land tenure, […]
Louis Grandjouan
Louis formerly practised in the London and New York offices of a leading US law firm, where he worked primarily on cross-border finance and restructuring transactions. He is admitted as a solicitor (England & Wales) and attorney (New York). In the year prior to pupillage, Louis was the judicial assistant to Lord Stephens in the […]
Court of Appeal hands down judgment in Musst Holdings Ltd v Astra Asset Management UK Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 128 – Christopher Boardman KC and Tom Beasley
The Court of Appeal has upheld Freedman J’s finding that an agreement between an introducer and an investment manager was novated to two successors entities. It has also confirmed that certain changes in investment strategy by the successor did not end the introducer’s entitlement to its share of management and performance fees. The case concerned […]
‘Establishing economic duress’ and ‘Contract Caselaw Update’ – Junior Programme: Commercial
In this webinar Jonathan Edwards considers the economic duress doctrine and how the Supreme Court limited the scope of lawful act duress in the decision of Pakistan International Airline Corp v Times Travel (UK) Ltd [2021] UKSC 40. James Fagan presents on recent decisions that consider aspects of commercial contract law including topics such as […]
Amber Turner
Amber has experience acting as sole counsel in the County and High Courts and First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), as well as appearing as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal. During pupillage, Amber observed and worked on cases across the range of traditional and commercial Chancery work, including charities, trusts, wills and probate, property and […]
LIDW21 Member-hosted Event: Sanctions and Disputes
We are delighted to be co-hosting this online event with ThoughtLeaders4Disputes, 10:00AM – 11:00AM, 14 May 2021, as part of London International Disputes Week. The webinar will feature a presentation and discussion on current issues in the world of economic sanctions with particular emphasis on the effect of sanctions on legal rights and proceedings to […]
Robert Lee
Robert has worked on cases across the range of traditional and commercial Chancery work including wills and probate, trusts, insolvency, property, landlord and tenant, commercial, charities and professional negligence. During pupillage, Robert has been supervised by Kate Rogers, Daniel Burton, Adam Deacock, and Clive Moys. Before starting pupillage at Radcliffe, Robert worked as a Legislation […]
Harmish Mehta (Pupil)
He received First Class Honours in his LLB (London School of Economics and Political Science) and LLM (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge). After his studies, Harmish volunteered for The Constitution Unit at University College London. There he co-authored (with Professor Robert Hazell CBE, Turan Hursit and Peter Waller) the report Improving Parliamentary Scrutiny of Public Appointments, which was […]