Maitland Chambers

Faith was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 2013 and joined 9 Stone Buildings in October 2015 following the successful completion of her pupillage.

She has a commercial chancery practice, with particular emphasis on insolvency, property, and contentious probate. She acts almost exclusively as sole counsel and as such her advocacy experience is well beyond her level of call.

INSOLVENCY AND COMPANY

Faith acts for officeholders, directors, creditors, and individual debtors in all manner of insolvency litigation. Her recent experience includes acting (as sole counsel) in valuable misfeasance, breach of fiduciary duty, and wrongful trading claims, and also various applications to set aside antecedent transactions (whether preferences, transactions at an undervalue, or transactions defrauding creditors), and recover unlawful distributions.

She is also frequently instructed to advise and act in relation to administration applications, disputed winding up or bankruptcy petitions, and injunctions to restrain the same. In the past year she has acted in a number of high profile bankruptcies and winding up petitions, including those of Katie Price, the Thomas Cook Group, Bury Football Club, and the Force India Formula One Team.

LAND AND PROPERTYFaith regularly advises on and acts in property disputes including claims in respect of constructive trusts, proprietary estoppel, easements, restrictive covenants, boundary disputes, mortgages and the enforceability of charges, relief from forfeiture, and other landlord and tenant matters.

PRIVATE CLIENTFaith acts in a wide variety of contentious trust and probate matters, with a particular emphasis on claims challenging the substantial validity of wills and codicils on grounds of testamentary capacity, lack of knowledge and approval, want of due execution, or undue influence, applications to remove executors, and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (for example, she acted for the defendant in the widely reported decision of Ames v Jones [2016] EW Misc B67 (CC)).

She has also developed significant expertise in disputes regarding burial and funeral arrangements, having – in her first year of practice – acted for the defendant in Anstey v Mundle [2016] EWHC 1073 (Ch); [2016] WTLR 931 (concerning a family dispute as to whether the deceased ought to be buried in the UK or Jamaica). She has since appeared or advised in relation to several other claims, including Y v Z [2018] EWHC 4026 (Ch); [2018] 11 WLUK 866.

COMMERCIALFaith’s practice encompasses all aspects of commercial litigation. Last year she was instructed in the $5 billion Fundao Dam group litigation against BHP Group Plc, on behalf of businesses affected by the disaster.

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2013: LLB, University of Law (1st)2013: BPTC, College of Law (Outstanding)2012: GDL, College of Law (Distinction)2011: MA in Eighteenth Century Studies (University of York)2010: BA in History (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge)