Kate Selway has a wide ranging chancery practice with particular expertise in private client, trust and property matters and a huge wealth of government litigation experience having been on the Attorney General’s A, B and C Panels. Regular government clients have included HMRC, the Charity Commission, Highways England, the MOD and the Government Legal Department on behalf of a broad range of government agencies and departments. Kate has appeared in a number of high profile cases, including the long-running Szepietowski litigation which reached the Supreme Court, the important Court of Appeal decision Macadam Homes Ltd v Robinson on the excessive user of easements and the recent important decision on fraudulent calumny in will-making, Marcou v Christodoulides. Alongside full-time practice, Kate developed the Radcliffe Chambers Student Barrister Experience, an award-winning initiative aimed at increasing diversity at the Chancery Bar and has just become Head of the Pupillage Committee.  She is described as “crystal clear, enthusiastic, calm and an overall pleasure to work with” in The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020.

Christopher Boardman practises in insolvency, commercial, fraud, company, partnership, and banking and finance law. He recently appeared in Re Lynch [2020] EWHC 15 (Ch), an appeal raising important issues about the relationship between bankruptcy and proprietary claims, and the jurisdiction of the insolvency courts to direct issues for determination in the bankruptcy. Chambers UK Bar 2020 describes Christopher as a “confident, aggressive and accomplished advocate with a great mind. He’s definitely someone you want on your side in a difficult fight.”

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