Members of Whitestone Chambers regularly advise, draft pleadings and appear in Courts in and out of London on a variety of Aviation and Travel Law disputes.
Chambers expertise covers a range of specialist areas, including but not limited to:Members of Whitestone Chambers are regularly instructed to act both for and against banks in a wide variety of matters.
We have particular expertise in defending claims brought under personal guarantees.
We also regularly represent and advise in relation to claims brought by banks, particularly against small to medium sized business (those with an annual turnover of up to £50 million) where facilities are secured with guarantees and/or legal charges over the personal property of directors or shareholders.
Chambers has acted against almost every bank in the UK including Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Halifax/Bank of Scotland, NatWest, RBS, and many others.
We also deal with Interest Rate Hedging Products claims for mis-selling.
We have a long history of settling disputes with banks on terms that allow the business or individuals concerned to move on.
Whitestone Chambers Commercial and Chancery Specialists
Members of Chambers undertake a full range of Commercial Chancery disputes. Members advise and appear regularly in the Commercial Court, Chancery Division and various County Courts in and out of London
Our expertise covers a range of specialist areas, including:Whitestone Chambers Insolvency Law Specialists
Members of Chambers are experienced in acting for creditors (secured and unsecured) and appear regularly in the Chancery Division and Companies Court of the Royal Courts of Justice.
Our expertise includes:In addition, through our knowledge of Insolvency law this often provides clients with valuable assistanNotable cases Include
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Barristers have unrivalled experience as advocates in England and Wales. Unlike solicitors, every barrister has the right to appear in all courts in England and Wales. Where litigation is pursued in the English courts, a solicitor is used to instruct the barrister. The role of a barrister is not only as advocate but also as an expert. As an expert, barristers advise on particular questions of law and draft agreements and formal pleadings.
Barristers are individual practitioners and as such their independence guarantees against conflict of interest, a potential problem for lawyers practising in partnership. The status of barristers as sole practitioners also allows barristers to market their professional service without the costs of an elaborate administration.
In the case of litigation taking place outside England and Wales, a barrister may be appointed direct. Barristers may be instructed directly in international arbitrations held anywhere in the world, including England and Wales. Foreign clients with advisory problems can also instruct barristers direct to obtain written or oral advice.
International Commercial Practice:
Barristers at 4 King’s Bench Walk have acted for a number of years for a large number of commercial clients worldwide. Members of chambers can offer international commercial clients advisory drafting and dispute resolution services. As commercial specialists each barrister understands the commercial objectives of their clients.
Members of chambers regularly advise on and draft a wide variety of commercial agreements. All of the barristers profiled below are experiences advocates, well versed in dispute resolution. All have appeared in the highest courts of England and Wales. Some members of chambers are admitted in other jurisdictions and have taken deposition in the United States. All are able to appear in arbitrations, tribunals and public hearings both at home and overseas, subject to local law.
Direct Access for Overseas Attorneys and Clients
Direct access to member of chambers is available to overseas attorneys and clients under the Overseas Practice Rules of the Bar of England and Wales (see further below) and the Direct Professional Access Rules of the Bar. Member of chambers regularly travel to the United States, the Far East and Europe to meet clients. In addition, 4 King’s Bench Walk also offers the use of its facilities to visiting overseas attorneys and clients as venue for arbitrations and taking depositions.
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Areas of Practice
While individual members of chambers focus on a number of specialist areas, the range of commercial work undertaken by 4 King’s Bench Walk as a whole is extremely broad, including:
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Chambers of Lawrence Power
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London
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Call (1995) Middle Temple
Bar of Northern Ireland (2005)
LL.M Nottingham
LL.B (Hons) Nottingham
Lawrence enjoys a solid commercial and chancery practice and is instructed on a variety of different areas of law, in particular:
Lawrence advises on regulation and compliance in ‘electronic jurisprudence’ in addition to the drafting of computer and Intellectual Property contracts. As an international practitioner he receives instructions from China, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, Vietnam and the USA. Furthermore, Lawrence was instructed to moderate Sanko Steamship Co., Ltd’s briefing meeting for international creditors in 2014.
As well as his extensive legal practice, Lawrence has been Head of Chambers at 4KBW for over 11 years during which time he has encouraged the expansion and development of the set in a direction focused on maintaining its reputation for first-rate standards of work based on first class recruitment.
Lawrence is the IP editor for the Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Moreover, Lawrence has reviewed ‘Electronic Finance Law’ [1993] in Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence Journal and contributed to:
Lawrence is current writing a new text book regarding the advocacy required in different court, tribunals and inquiries. This is due for publication in 2015 by Wildys.
Call:
Jerome’s practice has been varied over the years covering matters at all levels. Jerome enjoys an eventful commercial practice and is licensed to practice under the Public Access Scheme to conduct litigation. Jerome’s practice focuses on aviation claims, commercial disputes with a particular emphasis on construction and property claims, rights of way claims, neighbour disputes and includes some vintage/high value car claims particularly where elements of fraud or bad faith are involved. Jerome also undertakes regulatory work relating to several professions, licensing but also planning regulations which dovetails with his property disputes practice.
Call 1989, Inner Temple
LLB (Hons), University College London
Samuel works on commercial litigation/arbitration (contracts, banking, insurance & re-insurance, shipping (dry) and commercial fraud), as well as Jurisdictional disputes, Private international law (conflicts) and Japanese law.
Defending claims brought on guarantees. In the field of banking his specialties include the defence of claims brought by banks, particularly against small to medium sized businesses (those with an annual turnover of up to £50 million) where facilities are secured with guarantees and/or legal charges over the personal property of directors or shareholders.
Samuel has acted against almost every bank in the UK including Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Halifax/Bank of Scotland, Nat West, RBS, and many others both in the UK and abroad. Samuel successfully defended 14 applications for a bankruptcy petition against a single party brought by RBS Invoice Finance, and is currently involved in a claim against a major Indian bank for deceit by the President of the bank.
In the field of insurance his specialties: include coverage disputes under legal expenses insurance and/or professional indemnity, & maritime umbrella policies.
Syndicate Bank v Dansingani 2012 Chancery Division The Defendants and their company are pursuing defences and cross-claims, against sums due under guarantees, and secured by a legal charge, for deceit by the president of the bank, inducing them to enter the legal charge. The bank unsuccessfully spent 3 days trying to strike out these cross-claims in December 2013.
TICC v Cosco (UK) Limited 2001 December 5, Court of Appeal (successful claim by a freight forwarder for repayment of post season surcharges imposed by an international carrier of goods by sea and paid to its UK agent under duress)
Import Car Specialists Limited v. Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary & Others 2001 QBD (various claims against multiple defendants involving the recovery and re-sale in the UK of cars originally stolen in Japan worth about £60 million)
In Re Crookshank Limited 2000 Administrative Court (various claims against multiple defendants involving the recovery and re-sale in the UK of cars originally stolen in Japan worth about £4 million)
Casio Computers Ltd v. Sayo & Others 1998 Ch D (a fraud of about $100 million involving 20 defendants in multiple jurisdictions)
Jyske Bank (Gibraltar) Ltd v Spjeldnaes & Others 1996 Ch D (a fraud of about £70 million involving 30 defdendants in multiple jurisdictions)
In Re a Company (No 62 of 1995) 1996 Times 15 February (a technical point of procedure in presenting petitions to wind-up UK companies)
1990-91 Faculty of law, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan (Japanese Ministry of Education Award Scholarship).
1989-90 Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan (Japanese Ministry of Education Award Scholarship).
Call (2004) Gray’s Inn
Bar of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (2004)
LL.B (Hons) London
MSc (Hons) LSE
BA (Hons) Harvard
Nicola completed her pupillage at 4KBW and has been a tenant since 2006. Nicola’s civil practice encompasses:
Commercial
Employment
Insolvency
Personal Injury
Nicola has particular experience in advising on high-value hotel and property disputes as well as multi-jurisdictional insolvency and professional negligence cases in this jurisdiction and in The Bahamas.
Nicola is regularly instructed by companies, company officers, liquidators and creditors to appear in a range of proceedings in the Companies Court, including winding up petitions, validation orders, private examinations and arrest warrants. She has advised in relation to misfeasance, fraud, creditors’ rights, asset-tracing and recovery disputes. Nicola regularly advises on high-value corporate insolvencies in The Bahamas, including cross-jurisdictional questions on the duties and professional negligence of company auditors and advisors.
Nicola acts and appears for both claimants and defendants in contractual and property disputes, including a high-value hotel development in the Privy Council in an adverse possession claim. She is instructed on both contentious and non-contentious matters relating to the purchase and sale of commercial property and breach of trust claims involving pension trust companies.
Nicola is instructed on behalf of claimants and respondents in all stages and types of claims, from one-day unfair dismissal cases to lengthy discrimination claims. She has particular experience of stress at work cases, drawing on her personal injury experience and appears regularly in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Nicola advises on liability and quantum cases in fast-track and multi-track claims. She has experience with drafting all statements of case and complex schedules of loss. Experience in negotiating settlement terms in workplace accident and fatal accident act claims and Part 36 offers.
Nicola has particular experience in the following areas of Personal Injury:
Examples of cases which Nicola has worked on include:
Call (July 2004) Lincoln’s Inn
LL.B (Hons) University of Westminster
Mina joined Chambers in April 2017. Mina was called in 2004 in England and in Hong Kong. Mina practiced from 2005 to 2014 in Hong Kong before returning to the English Bar in 2017.
Over the years of practicing in Hong Kong, Mina has developed an interest in Public Law and has gained an extensive advisory and advocacy experience in all aspects of Constitutional & Administrative law, Human Rights issues, as well as Judicial Review. As a native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker, Mina joins other members of Chambers as being an important figure in the Hong Kong legal sector. Mina’s multi lingual skills have presented opportunities for her to assist solicitors in London as an overseas lawyer in International cases.
Mina’s commercial practice includes commercial litigation, fraud and contractual disputes. With her international background, Mina also has experience in conflicts and laws and jurisdictional disputes. Mina undertakes pleading and advisory work and represents clients in all types of commercial cases, high-value complex multi-party litigation with an international dimension.
Mina often acts for insurance companies and policyholders who were involved in road traffic cases, including complicated insurance issues.
Mina also accepts instructions in personal injury and clinical and medical negligence matters.
Call (2008) Lincoln’s Inn
LLB European (Magister), University of Exeter (First Class)
LLM, University of the Saarland (First Class)
BCL, University of Oxford
Jimmy has been a tenant since May 2012. His practice includes a wide range of civil work, including:
He has extensive experience on his feet in the County Court in the multi-track, fast track and small claims tracks, as well as in the Employment Tribunal.
Jimmy spent two terms at the Court of Appeal as judicial assistant to the present Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (while he was President of the Queen's Bench Division).
He appears regularly in the county courts on interim applications and at final hearings on cases involving credit hire, road traffic accidents, damage to property from water ingress, estate agents’ commission, infant approvals and possession hearings. He also appears in the Chancery Division assisting Lawrence Power and on his own cases.
He is building an aviation and travel law practice, with particular experience of cases involving Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004, the Montreal Convention and misrepresentation of package holidays.
During pupillage at Crown Office Chambers he worked on Dhanani v Crasnianski [2011] EWHC 926 (Comm), a two-week case in the High Court regarding the formation of a private equity fund, and the landmark case of Jones v Kaney [2011] UKSC 13 in the Supreme Court, in which expert witnesses lost their immunity from suit. He also advised on commercial guarantees, the interpretation of insurance contracts, product liability claims, solicitors’ negligence and executors’ breaches of trust.
Before coming to the Bar, he spent six months working at a commercial solicitors’ firm on disclosure and drafting in the case of SITA UK v Serruys, a £91million dispute involving allegations of commercial fraud.
He appears on behalf of claimants and respondents in the Employment Tribunal at liability and remedies hearings. Recent cases include S v Jobcentre Plus (2013), in which the ET found that his client had been unfairly dismissed on capability grounds, and D v LFMA (2013), a case of refusal of employment on grounds related to union membership. He has experience conducting cases involving discrimination, breach of contract, unlawful deduction of wages and the right to be accompanied by a union representative.
He is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association.
Jimmy undertakes court, advisory and drafting work in matters relating to aviation and travel law, including:
Recent cases:
Jimmy has experience of settling advices on liability, quantum and procedure in personal injury and clinical negligence matters, on cases involving orthopaedic injuries, occupational stress, industrial deafness, road traffic accidents, chronic pain syndrome, the six-pack Health & Safety at Work Regulations, negligent misdiagnosis and nervous shock. He is regularly instructed in the County Courts to attend CCMCs, application hearings and trials.
Jimmy is currently on part-time secondment as in-house counsel to the personal injury team at HMRC Solicitor's Office advising on a wide range of employers' liability cases. He also has considerable experience advising the Ministry of Justice on claims brought against HM Prison Service, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Probation Service for personal injury.
He is frequently instructed on the Treasury Solicitor’s Baby Barrister scheme. He has considerable experience advising the Ministry of Justice on private law claims brought against HM Prison Service, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Probation Service, in respect of claims for personal injury, false imprisonment, trespass to the person, lost property and breaches of human rights. He has also carried out subject access requests and advised on information law rights.
For the Department of Health he has drafted a series of schemes for the transfer of assets and property from Primary Care Trusts to new legal entities in the reorganization of the NHS. Recently he advised on the statutory amendments to primary and secondary legislation made necessary by the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill, and on the tracing of liabilities of NHS hospitals in respect of high profile historic sexual abuse cases.
He has extensive experience conducting multiple and single-day trials in the magistrates’ and youth courts both as a defence advocate and as a prosecutor. Notable cases include R v JS & ors [2011], a seven-handed violent disorder case in the youth court, in which the judge dismissed the case against his client following his cross-examination of a police officer, which revealed breaches of Code D of PACE; and R v MM [2012], in which he successfully defended a client charged with indecent exposure following a legal argument on the interpretation of the Sexual Offences Act. He has appeared in the Crown Court on interim applications, on appeals against sentence and to prosecute breaches of parole.
During his appointment as a judicial assistant at the Court of Appeal, he drafted bench memoranda for the Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal on permission to appeal applications in commercial, employment, immigration and family disputes. He assisted Sir John Thomas PQBD (as he then was) in the Divisional Court, by carrying out legal research and preparing bench memos on criminal appeals, extradition cases and several high profile judicial reviews.
He assisted on Tchenguiz v Serious Fraud Office [2012] EWHC 2254 (Admin), in which search warrants obtained by the SFO to investigate the claimants’ alleged involvement in a collapsed Icelandic bank were held to be unlawful, and R (Chong Nyok Keyu & ors) v (1) Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs (2) Secretary of State for Defence) [2012] EWHC 2445 (Admin), an unsuccessful application to judicially review the Secretary of State’s decision not to hold a public inquest into British soldiers’ involvement in the Batang Kali massacre in 1948.
Call 2010
LL.M University College London
BA Hons University of Oxford PPE
BSc. Honours in History, Durham University
GDL & BPTC, City Law School, City University
Christopher continues to be instructed by solicitors from his pupillage and undertakes a full range of civil paperwork and court instructions including:
Having undergone rigorous in-house training, Christopher welcomes court and paperwork instructions, from both solicitors and airlines directly, in the following areas:
Christopher has a wide range of experience at advising and assisting clients at all stages of litigation from pre-action through to costs and enforcement. He is also able to advise clients how to manage legal and regulatory risks. He has had experience in the following:
Examples of experience gained:
SA opposing the adjournment of or non-recognition of an arbitral award
Christopher has a busy property practice and welcomes both court and paperwork instructions in the following areas:
Examples of work Christopher has undertaken:
Christopher has gained significant in-depth expertise in a wide range of personal injury, professional negligence, and any general tortious claim, through being regularly instructed by the Ministry of Justice Private Litigation Team on the Attorney General’s Off-Panel Junior Counsel list (“Junior Junior scheme”).
Work undertaken includes:
Call 2015, Inner Temple
BSc. Honours in History, Durham University
GDL & BPTC, City Law School, City University
Matthew joined Chambers in May 2017, following successful completion of his pupillage at the Chambers of Lawrence Power. His practice encompasses advocacy and paperwork across a wide range of civil work, particularly Aviation and Travel; Commercial and Chancery; Personal Injury; Professional Negligence and Property Law.
Before his pupillage, Matthew worked as a County Court Advocate being instructed to appear in over 350 civil cases spanning enforcement, interim applications, possession orders and debt recovery.
Having worked closely with Chambers’ aviation team during his pupillage, Matthew accepts court and paperwork instructions from solicitors and airlines alike in the following areas:
Matthew is experienced in advising and assisting clients at all stages of litigation from pre-action through to costs and enforcement. His practice includes the following:
Matthew is commonly instructed in negligence and other tort claims. He has worked in and welcomes instructions in personal injury, professional negligence and employer’s liability cases.
Matthew accepts instructions relating to tenancies under the Housing Acts, in TOLATA matters, service charges, break clauses, and forfeiture cases, as well as cases in respect of mortgage arrears and possession. Matthew further welcomes work in the areas of nuisance, covenants, easements and boundary disputes.
Call: 2013 (Bar of Northern Ireland)
MA (Hons) St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
Andrew joined Chambers in 2017. Since been called to the Bar in 2013, Andrew is regularly instructed in Country Courts in Northern Ireland and the High Court in Belfast.
His practice is focused on Commercial and Chancery work, Aviation and Travel and insolvency. Andrew also accepts instructions in personal injury claims.
Andrew is a panel member of the Attorney General’s Junior Panel for both public and Chancery/ charity law and the Belfast Harbour Commissioners Panel of civil practitioners. He has spoken at the Solicitors Group property law conference on fit out agreements and dilapidations and has been invited to speak again in 2017. Andrews was Chair of the Young Bar Association of Northern Ireland from 2016-2017 and is a member of the Bar of Northern Ireland Brexit Working Group.
Andrew is regularly instructed in disputes at the High Court level in issues including trustee and beneficiary disputes and acts and advises in the areas of inheritance, loans and mortgage disputes, contract law and trespass, hire purchase agreements, insurance and fraudulent misrepresentation.
Andrew has expertise in compensation claims under EC regulation 261/2004 and accepts both Court and paperwork instructions.
Andre regularly appears before the Bankruptcy Master in Belfast in bankruocy and winding up petitions and drafts and appears in numerous insolvency related applications.
Andrew is regularly instuctured by Large Supermarkets and Industrial Employers in connection with accidents at work and accidents involving customers.
Call:
Cameron’s practice encompasses advisory, drafting and negotiation and advocacy in courts, tribunals and mediations across a range of civil work, particularly Commercial and Chancery; Insolvency; Aviation and travel; Media and Sports and Intellectual Property.
Cameron has extensive experience with a wide range of commercial and media work in England, The United States and Asia. He has previously worked as General Counsel for the Golden Harvest Group; U.S. broadcaster NBC as Director of Legal and Business Affairs for their European networks including NBC Europe, CNBC and several joint ventures with other European broadcasters and ISL in Switzerland as their General Counsel..
Cameron’s work involves:
Cameron practices in the following areas:
Cameron has previously worked for General Counsel for the Golden Harvest Group; U.S. broadcaster NBC as Director of Legal and Business Affairs for their European networks including NBC Europe, CNBC and several joint ventures with other European broadcasters and ISL in Switzerland as their General Counsel
Caleb Construction Ltd v. Walker Lees Ltd [2008] EWHC (TCC) - Costs: Special cases: circumstances in which non-parties to the litigation (in this case directors of the claimant company) could be ordered to pay the costs of the successful defendant : CPR 48(2) and Supreme Court Act 1981, s.51.
T. Comedy Limited v. Easy Managed Transport Limited [2007] 2 All ER (Comm) 189; [2007] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 397; [2007] EWHC 611(Comm). International carriage of goods by road: carrier’s lien under RHA Conditions of Carriage 1998; whether this was compatible with Article 13.2 of the CMR (Uniform Rules for International Carriage of Goods).
JJ Burgess & Sons v. Office of Fair Trading and Others [2005] CAT 25 – Competition Act s.18; dominance in a geographical area; where refusal to supply a competitor amounts to discrimination; objective justification.
Koo & Another v. Lam [1992] IPR 243 - existence of copyright in a questionnaire used in medical research; misuse of confidential information in an academic setting; infringement of copyright.