Blessings: when worlds collide – Article by David Mohyuddin KC and Daniel Burton
For over 100 years, the English Courts have entertained applications by trustees for directions, including to bless proposed “momentous” exercises of powers. Recently, this jurisdiction has extended through judicial decisions to corporate office-holders. The jurisdiction has received increasing scrutiny, not least in relation to the vexed question of immunity, resulting in the Court of Appeal’s recent […]
Junior Programme: Insolvency and Commercial
Join us for ‘Navigating Knowledge – Establishing Knowledge in Claims for Breach of Directors’ duties’ and ‘Privilege in Corporate Investigations’ presented by Katie Longstaff and James Fagan on Tuesday, 17 October, 17:30-21:00. Katie will consider the challenges commonly faced by parties in assessing whether directors had the requisite state of knowledge to give rise to […]
Restructuring and Insolvency Conference 2023 Three Minute Video
Radcliffe Chambers’ Restructuring and Insolvency practice group is proud to present its Restructuring and Insolvency Conference 2023 in this three minute video. Led by members of Radcliffe Chambers’ Restructuring and Insolvency practice group together with industry experts, the conference covered a wide range of pertinent issues and trends faced by the business world today, providing […]
Simon Williams
Radcliffe Chambers Junior Programme Schedule 2023
In 2023 we will be offering a variety of in-person events and webinars of our Junior Programme! Our in-person events will have a short talk hosted by our junior barristers and will be followed by drinks and networking. We will host talks on a range of topics spanning all of our practice areas so our […]
Tina Kyriakides
Commercial Insights Webinar Series – Unfair Prejudice Claims – webinar and podcast
In this episode of the Radcliffe Chambers Commercial Insights Webinar Series, Stuart Benzie reviews the background to the implementation of Section 994 Companies Act 2006, the fundamental concepts of the current Section 994 Unfair Prejudice regime and discuss recent developments in this important jurisdiction. Stuart also discuss case studies involving directors who have forfeited their […]
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 […]
Adam Deacock
Peter Dodge
He appeared in Dreamvar (UK) Ltd v Mishcon de Reya, the landmark professional negligence authority on the liability of solicitors and conveyancers in cases of property fraud. Having started his career as a fund manager at a leading investment bank, he has extensive recent experience of misselling claims relating to financial products generally and to […]
