Barristers
Luke Barnes
- Phone020 73583 4854
- Email[email protected]
Career
Luke's practice encompasses competing property interests, the subtle issues surrounding trusts of land, proprietary estoppel, capacity and undue influence, as well as financial provision for spouses, cohabitants, dependants and children – often in the shadow of separation, divorce, bankruptcy or death. Experienced in civil and family litigation and equally at home providing persuasive advocacy or carefully reasoned advice, he frequently gives seminars and contributes articles to legal publications.
Luke is qualified to accept instructions under the Bar Council Public Access scheme.
Reported Cases
Griffiths v Cork [2009] WTLR 955 (Ch)
Capacity to execute disposition of beneficial interest – burden of proof where disponor suffering from mental illness
Babar v Anis [2005] 3 FCR 216 (Ch)
Promissory estoppel as a defence to possession proceedings brought by former 'husband' against former 'wife' following decree of nullity (case cited in Snell's Equity 32nd Ed at 12-015)
Waters Associates International Ltd v Hanover Search & Select Ltd [2004] CLY 664Contract – dispute between recruitment consultancies over payment of commission
Sam Yorke v Ali Jawad [2003] CLY 2717
Landlord & Tenant – possession claim, disrepair, breach of quiet enjoyment by threatening tenant's wife
Articles
"Stack .v. Dowden - the principles in practice" - 2007(referred to in Williamson .v. Sheikh [2008] EWCA 990
'Defining Detriment' -2009
'Context is Everything' - 2009'
Shouldn't this Joint Tenancy be Severed?' - 2011
Undue Influence in the Family - 01/02/2014
Memberships
Property Bar Association,
Family Law Bar Association,
Franco-British Lawyers' Society,
Lawyers for Liberty
Education
M.A. Classics (New College, Oxford)
M.A. Law (City University)