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Elizabeth Ovey

Elizabeth Ovey

Position

Barrister specialising in pensions, retail financial services and building society work (litigation and drafting and constitutional issues relating to societies); trusts, wills and probate (contentious and non-contentious); professional negligence relating to solicitors, accountants, actuaries and surveyors (claimants and defendants); conveyancing and property litigation; cases include: Twogates Properties v Birmingham Midshires Building Society; Davies v Richards & Wallington Industries; Bowers v Bowers; Gibbon v Mitchell; Cheltenham & Gloucester Plc v Booker; Johnson v Gore Wood; Re T&N Ltd; Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane SPA v Rotunno; HR Trustees Ltd v German (the IMG case) Prudential Staff Pensions v Prudential Assurance Company; Danks v QinetiQ Holdings; the Pensions Regulator v A Admin; Arcadia Group Ltd. v Arcadia Group Pension Trust Ltd; NRAM Plc v Nelmes.

Career

Called 1978; Middle Temple; deputy judge of the Upper Tribunal; publications: co-editor ‘Wurtzburg and Mills on Building Society Law’; co-author ‘The Law of Investor Protection’ (2nd edition); co-author 'Retail Mortgages: Law, Regulation and Procedure'.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Charity Law Association; Association of Pension Lawyers.

Education

Grammar School for Girls, Southampton; Oxford University (1977 BA).

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