Pretoria Energy v Blankney Estates [2023] EWCA Civ 482
Dov Ohrenstein, instructed by Roythornes Limited, was successful for the Respondent in the Court of Appeal: Pretoria Energy Company (Chittering) Limited v Blankney Estates Limited [2023] EWCA Civ 482. The subject of the appeal was whether a signed document marked “Heads of Terms” but not marked “subject to contract” included a binding agreement for a […]
India Dispute Resolution Forum
Radcliffe Chambers is delighted to announce that we are attending India Dispute Resolution Forum at St James’ Court, Taj Hotel, 7 – 8 June 2023. If you are attending the conference this year and would like to arrange a meeting with us, please contact us at events@radcliffechambers.com. Avtar Khangure KC, Tom Beasley, Fiona Fitzgerald and […]
London Luton BPRA Property Fund LLP v HMRC
HMRC have secured a major victory in the case of London Luton BPRA Property Fund LLP v HMRC, which concerns the availability of business premises renovation allowances, a type of capital allowances. The case relates to the conversion of a property into a hotel situated near London Luton airport. The issues in the case included […]
Limitation in Commercial Invoice Claims and ‘Heads of terms’, ‘subject to contract’ and other phrases in the making of legally binding agreements.
On Thursday 23rd March, Zachary Kell and Jamie Cockfield hosted a Junior Programme webinar on “Limitation in Commercial Invoice Claims and ‘Heads of terms’, ‘subject to contract’ and other phrases in the making of legally binding agreements.” Limitation in Commercial Invoice Claims Zachary discusses the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal in Consulting Concepts […]
Identity fraud: can a solicitor owe a duty of care to a non-client?
Jeremy Cousins KC and Peter Dodge (instructed by Mills & Reeve) appeared in the Court of Appeal for the Seventh Defendant, Rees Page, in Ashraf v Lester Dominic Solicitors [2023] EWCA Civ 4, CA (having previously appeared for Mishcon de Reya in Dreamvar) UH exchanged contracts for the sale of his house to A. Unusually, […]
Identity fraud: can a solicitor owe a duty of care to a non-client?
Jeremy Cousins KC and Peter Dodge (instructed by Mills & Reeve) appeared in the Court of Appeal for the Seventh Defendant, Rees Page, in Ashraf v Lester Dominic Solicitors [2023] EWCA Civ 4, CA (having previously appeared for Mishcon de Reya in Dreamvar) UH exchanged contracts for the sale of his house to A. Unusually, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 and in the Commercial Court. Amber is continuing to build a mixed Chancery practice combining commercial, insolvency, private client and property work. Before starting pupillage […]
Chloe Shuffrey
She regularly appears in the High Court (both led and as sole counsel) and before Insolvency and Companies Court (ICC) Judges. She was instructed in the recent groundbreaking Supreme Court appeal in Sevilleja v Marex Financial Ltd [2020] UKSC 31 as part of a team of five counsel. Chloe has experience and accepts instructions in […]
