Christopher Buckingham

Business & Property

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.

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