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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).

Mentions

London Bar

Pensions

Leading junior2
Elizabeth Ovey –Radcliffe Chambers ‘Elizabeth provides concise yet detailed advice.'
London Bar

Professional negligence

Leading junior3
Elizabeth Ovey –Radcliffe Chambers ‘She has excellent technical knowledge of her sector as well as a calm and reassuring manner.’