Commercial chancery barrister specialising in banking and financial services, property and professional negligence
The recent AGM of Barclays plc on 2 May 2019 attracted considerable press attention. A resolution had been requisitioned for the appointment as a director of a so-called activist investor. In the event, the resolution achieved less than 13% support, but the incident provides an interesting case study for other public companies to reflect on …
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Financial Director, 9 May 2019. Click here to read the article.
Bold Legal Group webinar (with Rob Hailstone and Lorraine Richardson, property solicitor and legal trainer), 26 April 2019. Click here to contact Bold Legal Group for details.
LexisNexis Webinars UK (with Jeremy Cousins QC), 31 January 2019. Click here for a YouTube preview or here for the full webinar.
Jeremy Cousins QC and I were recently kindly invited by Bold Legal Group (together with Lawyer Checker and Today’s Conveyancer) to present a webinar on the implications of the Court of Appeal decision in Dreamvar (UK) Ltd v Mishcon de Reya and P&P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP. During the webinar, we …
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According to a report published the previous year by the research firm Outsell, the estimated value of the UK legal CPD market in 2016 was £21m. In a piece in the September 2016 issue of Counsel magazine, Stephen Honey, Head of Learning at LexisNexis UK, outlined the benefits which the changing face of CPD could …
If the average retail customer were to follow Warren Buffet’s advice never to invest in a business you can’t understand, it’s likely that people would be holding a lot more cash. Time and time again, claimants say that they didn’t really understand the product which they were sold but were assured that, in the medium …
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Amendments to the Consumer Credit Act 1974 introducing the open-ended concept of an “unfair relationship” came into force in 2007. Subsequent case law defining or limiting this concept has been sparse. Adding to the case law, the Court of Appeal has now considered the matter in the context of the exercise of a mortgagee’s power …
Target v Redferns (decided by the House of Lords in 1995) alerted lenders to the possibility of seeking trust based remedies against their own solicitors where a mortgage transaction has gone wrong. Recently, there has been a steady stream of decisions (both in the High Court and the Court of Appeal) considering and applying Target, …
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Our “judges and lawyers” production of Judgment at Nuremberg – first at the Tricycle Theatre in 2011 and then at the Bridewell Theatre last March – raised over £50,000 for charitable causes. Sally Knyvette, our professional director, worked tirelessly to knock us into shape. Sally’s latest venture is a near month long run of new …
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