24th March 2022
In Duneau v Klimt Invest SA & Ors [2022] EWHC 596 (Ch), Charlie Newington -Bridges acted for the Respondent in the High Court trial of a just and equitable winding up petition relating to a French stock market listed technology company worth €9m. Daniel Lightman QC acted for the Petitioner. The 8-day trial was heard…
12th January 2022
Deputy Head of the Commercial team, Charlie Newington-Bridges alongside Iwan Doull from Berry Smith have published a guide on the principles relating to oral agreements. Having acted for claimants and defendants in a number of alleged oral agreement trials in the High Court over the last 3-4 years, it is apparent that there are a series of features to…
30th November 2021
We are very pleased to announce that specialist competition law barrister Matthew O’Regan has joined the editorial team of Chitty on Contracts, published by Sweet and Maxwell. Chitty is the leading reference work on contract law in the Common law world. Now in its 34th edition, its two volumes contain full coverage of the law…
29th November 2021
Natasha Dzameh, a commercial and chancery barrister and Deputy Head of the Commercial team, has produced a case analysis of Walker v The Official Receiver [2021] EWHC 2868 (Ch) for LexisPSL. This case contains helpful guidance on: the operation of the compensation provisions in section 304 of the Insolvency Act (“IA”) 1986; the powers of…
18th October 2021
We are pleased to announce that Charlie Newington-Bridges and Natasha Dzameh will be deputy heads of our Commercial team. Charlie is a well regarded barrister for his commercial and financial services expertise, which is supported by 15 years’ prior experience as an investment banker. He is also regularly instructed in cases concerning partnership law and…
20th May 2021
St John’s Chambers barristers, pupils and staff have decided to take part in a fitness challenge to raise funds for Penny Brohn UK. We wanted to support a local charity which we know some members and staff hold close to their hearts, and one that has helped them through some very challenging times. We have…
19th May 2021
Commercial and chancery barrister, Natasha Dzameh, has recently produced seven insolvency practice notes concerning general partnerships and limited partnerships for LexisPSL. These are: Administration of joint and separate estates Insolvency of general partnerships – administration Insolvency of general partnerships – priority of expenses and debts Limited partnerships and insolvency – key principles Limited partnership insolvency…
19th April 2021
The public is normally concerned about wrongful convictions. In the light of the recent contentious acquittal of Donald McPherson following the death of his wife Paula Leeson, Leslie Blohm QC considers the position where an acquittal leaves the family of a person who has died believing that justice has not been done by the verdict of…
6th April 2021
Charlie Newington-Bridges was instructed by Willans LLP to act for the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (‘the Foundation’) in an application brought by the Foundation against one of its members who had made a request for a list of the names and addresses of the members of the Foundation under s116 of the Companies Act…
1st April 2021
St John’s Chambers is proud to announce that on 1st April 2021, three new pupils commenced their pupillage in our successful Family & Divorce, Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury and Commercial & Chancery teams. Diana Pannizzon-Pineda who joins our Family & Divorce team will be under the supervision of Julia Belyavin. Whilst Diana was studying at the University of…
