Michael Ashe SC

Call Date: 1971

Michael Ashe is a Full Member of Addington Chambers. He practises as an advocate and gives advice on business and finance law, particularly in commercial Chancery, company law, contract, financial services, partnership, tax and conflicts of laws matters. He also practises at the Bar of Ireland www.lawlibrary.ie

Michael also undertakes advocacy and advice in other common law jurisdictions and has appeared as an expert witness on English and Irish law in foreign courts. He is also a canon lawyer in the Catholic Church.

He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1971, to the Bar of Ireland in 1975 and to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1993. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in England & Wales in 1994 and in Northern Ireland in 1998. He was appointed Senior Counsel in Ireland in 2000. He was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 2000 to 2019 and is a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.

He has published legal articles and textbooks, particularly in the areas of the law of money and injunctions (in Halsbury’s Laws of England) and on Insider Dealing, Financial Services and Anti-money laundering. He is Co-Chairman of the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime