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Barristers

Gordon Nurse

Gordon Nurse

Position

Barrister specialising in real property-related litigation and commercial litigation, particularly involving equitable remedies; also specialises in probate, administration of estates and professional negligence (barristers, accountants and solicitors etc) concerned with areas of the law of a general Chancery and commercial nature; cases include: Woolwich Building Society v Dickman [1996) 3 All ER 204; Urban Manor v Sadiq [1997] 1 WLR 1016; Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG and Others v Philip Makris and Others, Commercial Court 1998 (unreported); The Special Trustees for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children v Pauline Ruskin and others [2001] WTLR 1137; and P&O Overseas Holdings Ltd v Rhys Braintree Ltd and Dawnay Day Properties Ltd TLR 5 April 2002; Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School Blackburn Ltd v Banks & Wilson [2002] PNLR 210-320.

Career

Called 1973; Middle Temple; elected member of the Bar Council 1994-96; deputy master of the High Court, Chancery Division (appointed February 2002).

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Bar Sports Law Group; Charity Law Association.

Education

Uppingham School; Queen’s College, Cambridge (BA (Hons) 2(1); MA).

Leisure

Hockey, windsurfing, music (listening, and playing piano and trumpet). Disciplinary Commissioner of the International Hockey Federation (appointed January 2013). Member of the Hockey Appeal Jury for the 2012 Olympics.