New Square Chambers

Adrian Pay's practice focuses on contentious chancery work, in particular, commercial chancery and property work. His commercial work includes commercial fraud (e.g. Weavering v Ernst & Young, a claim against auditors relating to the collapse of a fraudulently run hedge fund), company and insolvency matters and contractual disputes (including matters with an information technology aspect). He has particular expertise in shareholder disputes (e.g. Caldero v Beppler & Jacobson Ltd [2013] EWHC 2191 (Ch); [2014] EWCA Civ 935, a high-profile dispute relating to two prestigious hotels in Montenegro; Adrian is currently instructed on a high-value shareholder dispute concerning an investment fund in Vietnam). His property work includes, in particular, disputes arising out of property developments and deficient conveyancing:  cases include Angel Solicitors v Jenkins O'Dowd & Barth [2009] 1 WLR 1220; Clark v Lucas LLP [2010] 2 All ER 955; Kind v Northumberland County Council [2013] 1 WLR 743; R (Trail Riders Fellowship) v Dorset CC [2015] UKSC 18.

Call 1999; Inn: Middle Temple. Publications: ‘Enforcement’ in ‘Freedom of Information’ (OUP) eds McDonald QC, Crail and Jones. Called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands 2016

Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.

King’s Canterbury; Balliol, Oxford (1996 BA Classics); College of Law (London) (1997 CPE); ICSL (1998 BVC).

Motorsport, chess, classical literature.