Martyn Berkin

Barrister specialising in commercial law, including contracts, recovery of assets, constructive and resulting trusts, enforcement of foreign judgments. In addition to these fields he has experience of the legal systems of the United States and the acquis communautaire of the EU. Instructions include a substantial claim involving the registration of a judgment from the Tanzania High Court and has given evidence on English law in the Slovenia Insolvency Appeal Court and the United States District Court for New York City. Other areas of work include professional negligence, including lawyers and accountants and commercial landlord and tenant. He has also acted in several cases involving major international philatelic archives, most recently through an AAA arbitration. He is an expert in the field of art and antiquities auctions. Within these areas of law he has taken on a considerable number of cases on appeal.

Downing College, Cambridge (1965 MA).