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Camilla ter Haar joins Five Paper

18th March 2019

Five Paper is delighted to announce that Camilla ter Haar has rejoined Chambers. Camilla was called to the Bar in 2005 and is an established practitioner specialising in international and domestic commercial disputes, construction and insolvency. Camilla has worked on disputes in a wide range of jurisdictions and is instructed as junior counsel to the Grenfell…

Rachel Sleeman and Gita Chakravarty successful in £22m claim: Lord Chancellor v Blavo & Co Solicitors Limited and John Blavo

15th January 2019

Rachel Sleeman and Gita Chakravarty represented the Lord Chancellor before Mr Justice Pepperall in a contractual claim for recovery of in excess of £22m paid to Blavo & Co. Solicitors Limited under a legal aid contract for mental health work. John Blavo was liable to the Lord Chancellor under the terms of a Guarantee and…

Morwenna Macro successfully resists strongly contested application on behalf of Trustee in Bankruptcy in Kavuma v Stephen Hunt [2018] 12 WLUK 119 High Court ChD

21st December 2018

Morwenna represented the Respondent, in an application to set aside a default costs certificate in the sum of £293k obtained following a failure to serve points of dispute within the extended period granted to the Kavumas following their son’s serious illness. This case raised important issues as to the jurisdiction of the Court to hear…

Commercial Team Members visit Cyprus for Bar Council Event

27th June 2018

Roger Laville and Gita Chakravarty of Five Paper’s Commercial Team and Senior Clerk David Portch are travelling to Nicosia, Cyprus for the Bar Council and Cyprus Bar Association’s joint English–Cypriot Law Day on 5 to 6 July 2018. Roger will be speaking to the conference at the Law Day on civil law claims arising from…

Civil Fraud Seminar

6th June 2018

Fraus omnia corrumpit: fraud unravels all. An allegation of fraud can have a huge impact on the direction a dispute takes, the relief potentially available to the claimant and the parties’ prospects of success. This seminar, presented by Roger Laville and Zachary Kell, explores: – the key causes of action in fraud claims, such as…

“A Game of Two Halves” – Rachel Sleeman and Jessica Powers’ article on the potential recovery options in insolvencies brought on by the failure of tax avoidance schemes is published in Insolvency Intelligence

1st March 2018

For years companies and individuals have attempted to avoid tax using disguised remuneration schemes i.e. tax avoidance schemes involving the payment of employees’ remuneration to a third party. HMRC’s consistent view that these schemes are ineffective was finally validated by the Supreme Court last year in the Rangers Football Club case (RFC 2012 Plc v…

Sahana Jayakumar awarded Pegasus Scholarship 2018

7th February 2018

We are delighted to announce that Sahana Jayakumar has been awarded a scholarship by the Pegasus Trust to travel to Dubai in Autumn 2018. The Trust, administered by Inner Temple, awards around twelve scholarships per year to barristers within their first five years of practice. From September, Sahana will spend three months working in the…

Simon Mills and Jessica Powers edit the new edition of Atkin’s “Sale and Supply of Goods and Services”

25th September 2017

We are pleased to announce that the 2017 edition of Atkin’s on “Sale and Supply of Goods and Services” has just been published. In the distant past, Simon was engaged by LexisNexis to produce this edition as sole editor. Due to the pressing commitments of his practice, he eventually called for assistance and Jessica was…

Salinger on Factoring – Special Offer 20% discount

25th September 2017

Sweet & Maxwell have just launched a special offer on selected titles until 30 September, so if you have not yet picked up a copy of the latest edition of Salinger, now is the time to buy. As a reminder, this edition has been very substantially re-written and is not just a boring update. Changes…

Simon Mills wins waste management case

21st June 2017

On 16 June 2017 the High Court dismissed a £3m claim for royalties and commission allegedly arising out of four oral contracts following a 7-day trial. In Houghton v PB Donoghue Simon represented the Defendants, who are a well-respected group of waste management and recycling companies operating in North London and Hertfordshire. After being subject…

Shareholder Disputes – breakfast seminar on 13 July 2017

19th June 2017

Shareholder disputes take many forms, but the unfair prejudice petition under s994 Companies Act 2006 is the most flexible and widely used way for a minority shareholder to enforce his or her rights. In this seminar Rachel Sleeman, Roger Laville and Alex Kingston-Splatt will consider the extent of the statutory jurisdiction, the circumstances in which…

Costs Budgeting

16th May 2017

Commercial Barrister Morwenna Macro’s updated article on Costs Budgeting has been published on the Insight encyclopaedia on Westlaw (please click here for a Link to Westlaw or here for a Link to PDF). It covers the process of costs budgeting and costs management, linking to the relevant rules and practice direction of the CPR and Guidance…

Insolvency: Transactions At An Undervalue

3rd May 2017

Commercial Barrister Morwenna Macro’s updated article on Transactions at an Undervalue in bankruptcy and liquidation was published on the Insight online encyclopaedia on Westlaw on 6 February and is now available to all on PDF here. It covers the powers that Trustees in Bankruptcy and Liquidators have to challenge transactions that appear to have been made for nil consideration…

New Insolvency Rules 2016 – Morwenna Macro’s article for Insight on Westlaw has been published

14th March 2017

Morwenna’s article highlights some of the key changes heralded by this major overhaul of insolvency legislation. The significant changes include the replacement of statutory forms with prescribed content; the greater use of electronic communications and websites to deliver documents; the move away from physical creditors’ meetings and use of alternative decision-making and deemed consent together…

Simon Mills writes new edition of Salinger on Factoring

22nd February 2017

We are pleased to announce that the new 5th edition of “Salinger on Factoring” is in the shops and online. The new edition has been written by Simon Mills, assisted by Noel Ruddy and Nigel Davidson of pdt solicitors. Professor Roy Goode has said the fact that the book is “a skilful blend of legal…

Freezing point – Gita Chakravarty’s article on developments in freezing injunctions appears in the February 2017 edition of the Solicitors Journal.

20th February 2017

Gita’s article considers the Commercial Court decision in Windrush Intercontinental SA v Bitumen Invest A/S concerning the grant of an ex parte freezing injunction pending an appeal against an arbitration award. The article focuses on the unusual circumstances in which the order was made and the principles to be applied to the interpretation of the…

Roger Laville’s article on the extension of tracing in Brazil v Durant is published by Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law

21st December 2015

In its December 2015 issue, the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law published an article by Roger Laville about backward tracing. This extension to the established principles of tracing was recognised in the recent Privy Council decision of The Federal Republic of Brazil v Durant International Corporation [2015] UKPC 35. In certain circumstances…

Simon Mills in important case concerning the correct approach to awarding interim costs where the costs have exceeded the costs budget

2nd December 2015

In a short but important judgment on costs in Maven Capital Partners & Capital for Enterprise Fund v Bibby Financial Services Ltd [2015] EWHC 2593 (Ch), [2015] All ER (D) 117 (Nov), HHJ Pelling QC held that: the court does not have jurisdiction to amend an approved costs budget after trial; the costs judge can…

Five Paper barristers ranked as leading juniors across social housing, commercial litigation/dispute resolution, employment and immigration in Chambers UK 2016 and Legal 500 2015.

30th November 2015

Five Paper is said to have ‘extremely knowledgeable and client-focused advocates’ and a clerking team who ‘give a great level of service’. Chambers is recognised as a leading social housing set in both directories; we have eight barristers ranked in Legal 500 for social housing and seven in Chambers UK. Simon Mills is ranked for…

Simon Mills defeats conspiracy claim against Bibby in 6-day trial

1st October 2015

On 28 September 2015, HHJ Pelling QC gave judgment in the case of Maven Capital Partners & Capital for Enterprise Fund v Bibby Financial Services Ltd [2015] EWHC 2593 (Ch), dismissing a conspiracy claim against Bibby. It was common ground that Bibby had agreed to provide funding to a business that was being restructured such…

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