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Christopher Buckingham

Christopher Buckingham

St Philips Chambers, West Midlands

Work Department

Business & Property

Position

Christopher is a Chancery Commercial practitioner. His work covers a range of specialist practice areas including insolvency, property, probate and trusts. In recent years he has been instructed to advise and appear in an array of complex and high value cases (both led and as sole counsel) including claims brought by insolvency office-holders, directors’ disqualification applications and proceedings under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. He appeared unled for the successful Appellant in the seminal case on mandatory ADR Lomax v Lomax [2019] EWCA Civ 1467; [2019] 1 WLR 6527.

Career

Called to the Bar in 2009, Lincoln's Inn.

Regional B Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (appointed 2018)

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association (committee member)

Court of Protection Practitioners Association

Denning Society

Ecclesiastical Law Society

Education

LLM (Commercial Law), Wolfson College, Cambridge BVC, Nottingham Law School GDL, Oxford Brookes (Distinction) MA Philosophy Politics and Economics, Lincoln College, Oxford Pegasus Scholarship (New Zealand, 2014) Sunley Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn) Tancred Studentship (Lincoln’s Inn) Lord Haldane Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn) Hardwicke Entrance Award (Lincoln’s Inn) Law Department Prize for Outstanding Performance on the GDL

Mentions

Midland Circuit • Regional Bar

Chancery, probate, and tax

Leading junior1
Christopher Buckingham – St Philips Chambers 'A whip-smart barrister who can be relied on to quickly and accurately assess a situation, apply the law, and give concise and unequivocal advice. He does not sit on the fence.'
Midland Circuit • Regional Bar

Property and construction

Leading junior1
Christopher Buckingham – St Philips Chambers 'Christopher is very a commercial, practical and proactive barrister. He provides clear and direct advise so clients know where they stand.'