John McCormick

Dispute Resolution and Litigation

John practices all aspects of commercial litigation with a particular focus on contentious trusts, professional negligence, shareholder disputes and fraud and asset tracing.

Key cases John has been involved with at Carey Olsen include:

The ultimately successful strike out, through a variety of applications, of very substantial claims in unjust enrichment and for breach of contract by a developer for alleged breach of a heads of terms Settlement of a multi-million pound claim against a Jersey law firm in relation to allegedly negligent advice and conduct of a failed litigation strategy Successfully acting for the majority shareholders opposed to an application by minority shareholders to bring an unfair prejudice/derivative action against the company's directors Settlement of a significant claim by a beneficiary against the former trustees/directors in relation to investment decisions made/claimed loss of returns on alternative investments Acting for the former directors in relation to a company reinstatement and further proceedings for alleged breach of directors' duties Settlement of an unfair prejudice and breach of shareholder agreement claim between business partners/equal co-shareholders The defence against public law challenges of Jersey's legal aid scheme and amendments to the scheme Advising the trustees in relation to claims brought against trust assets alleged to be the traceable proceeds of fraud by a settlor/beneficiary A number of injunction proceedings seeking inter alia: freezing (Mareva) injunctions, quia timet, arrêt entre mains (garnishment) of debtor payment streams

He has an LLB/B.Com (finance) and LLM (with 1st class honours) from the University of Auckland.