No5 Barristers' Chambers

Business and Property Group

(Commercial Dispute Resolution, Partnership, Banking and Insolvency)

Practises from Birmingham.

Recent insolvency cases include: Re Husky Group Ltd [2015] BPIR 184 (proving solvency with hindsight), Re Brown Bear Foods Ltd [2014] EWHC 1132 (Ch) (provisional liquidation instead of administration), Re Reflex Recordings Ltd [2013] EWHC 4514 (Ch) (costs - freezing injunction and administration order), and Re Safehosts (London) Ltd [2013] EWHC 2479 (Ch), [2013] BCC 721 (provisional liquidation instead of administration).

Recent banking cases include: Nautch Ltd v Mortgage Express and Walker Singleton (Property Management) Ltd [2012] EWHC 4136 (Ch) (LPA receivers, equitable duty to borrower and global costs order), and Earles v Barclays Bank plc [2010] Bus LR 566 (electronic disclosure and costs).

Other cases include: Wemyss v Karim and Douglas Wemyss LLP [2014] EWHC 292 (QB) (warranty/indemnity claim), Hamed v Stevens [2013] EWCA Civ 911 (conflicts of laws – foreign land), and Chahal v Mahal [2005] EWCA Civ 898 (partnership dissolution date).

Solicitor (Eversheds): 1996.

Solicitor Advocate (civil): 2001.

Called to the Bar: 2001.

Tenant 2002.

MCCBA. Birmingham Law Society (also former member of the Dispute Resolution committee).

Whitgift School.

BSc Hons (1st class): 1991.

PGDL: 1992-93.

LPC (Commendation): 1993-94

Pre-2006: rugby, scuba-diving and travelling. Post-2006: parenting, thinking about the aforementioned and IPA.