Profile

Lawrence enjoys a solid commercial and chancery practice and is instructed on a variety of different areas of law, in particular:

• Banking and Finance
• Computer and Telecommunication
• Insolvency (including Cross-border)
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• International Sale

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.

Reported cases

• Frederic Uchechukwu Achom, Alexander Charles Nicholl, Boington Anthony Grant v Tihomir Lalic, Vahram Papazyan, Alula Leisure Limited [2014] EWHC 1888 (Ch): The claimants maintained they were entitled to a 50% interest in a nightclub venture and the company which held the underlease to that nightclub. Held, there was no binding contract between the first claimant and any of the defendants and, in turn, no evidence of a partnership. Additionally, the claim that a Pallant v Morgan equity arose failed as did the conspiracy claims.
• BDMS Ltd v Rafael Advanced Defence Systems [2014] 1 Lloyd's Rep 576 (Comm): BDMS held Rafael in repudiatory breach of an arbitration agreement. Rafael applied for a stay. Subsequently, Rafael was held not to have committed a repudiatory breach that rendered the arbitration agreement inoperative but BDMS were not blamed for issuing the claim. Rafael invited the judge to make an order for costs on an indemnity basis but instead costs were awarded on a standard basis.

• Freetown Ltd v Assethold Ltd [2013] 1 WLR 385: Party wall award case where Lawrence acted for Freetown Limited in the County Court and High Court proceedings. Lawrence advanced arguments that were subsequently successful on appeal.

• Pathania v Adedeji [2010] EWHC 3085 (QB): Cited in Snell’s Equity Third Cumulative Supplement to the Thirty-Second Edition: Chapter 8 – Fraud, Undue Influence (p14). The presumption of undue influence between a solicitor and a client was rebutted; the client being a sophisticated and experienced doctor.

• Churchill v Temple and Others [2011] 1 EGLR 73 (Ch) :  The case concerned restrictive covenants. The important issue was whether a property owner, whose land was burdened by an obligation to obtain ‘vendors' consent’ for alterations to his property, still had that obligation following the death of the ‘vendors’.

• PR Drego Ltd v Salim Dungarwalla (2010): Unreported (Ch):  International banking and finance case in Chancery Division of the High Court.

• Commonwealth of Australia v Peacekeeper International FZC UAE [2008] EWHC 1220 (QB):  Ordinarily any participation in this type of interpleader proceedings for a traditional purpose would not amount to submission to the jurisdiction.

• R v Farhat Mahmood and Atteeque Shahin [2006] 1 Cr App R (S) 96: Cited in Archbold : Sentences and Orders on Conviction: Lack of discretion/abuse of process (p895). Court of Appeal case concerning the proceeds of crime in a money laundering action.

• The Estate of Dr Anandh & Anr v Barnet Primary Health Care Trust [2004] EWCA Civ 05 (CA): The defendant appealed against judge's decision upholding the master's order refusing permission to extend time for service of defence and permitting the claimant's application for summary judgment. The matter should not have been dealt with by means of summary judgment as there had been competing factual issues that should have been considered.

• UVC Limited (t/a Power Train Projects) v Doug Kiddie Engineering Limited [2001] EWCA Civ 922 (Ch) :  Contract case concerning whether a positive duty on a solicitor exists to reserve position as to costs of Pt 20 defendant.

• John Amorifer Uzoamaka v Conflict & Change Ltd [1999] ADR LR 05/28 (CA): The Court of Appeal held that the charity were entitled to summarily dismiss the claimant as his conduct threatened their most important commercial link and was capable of bringing the project into disrepute.

 

Publications

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: 

• Archiving Computer Transactions [1994]
• The Law of Due Diligence [1997]

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.

Download CV

 

Practice

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.

 

Aviation

• Warsaw and Montreal Convention claims (cargo, passenger, baggage claims)
• Compensation claims for delay, cancellation or denied boarding claims
• Carriage by air disputes involving EU regulations
• Claims arising from unruly passengers.
• Negligence claims, including personal injury, in an aviation and employment context.

Commercial

• General Commercial/construction disputes.
• Insolvency.
• Partnership and Company law disputes.

Property

• Commercial and residential property and fraud related matters.
• Boundary disputes and rights of way claims including proceedings under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.

Regulatory work

• Professional regulation issues.
• Alcohol and entertainment licensing law including new applications, reviews and appeals.
• Planning related matters including enforcement.

Travel Claims

• Sickness claims
• Compensation claims
• Package Holiday Regulation claims and Athens Convention claims.

 

Download CV

Profile:

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.

Commercial

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.

 

Insurance

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)

 

Scholarships, Awards, and Prizes

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).

 

Download CV

Profile

In her capacity as advocate, Ms. Farmer has appeared in both the House of Lords (Supreme Court) and Privy Council as well as courts in the United States and the Eastern Caribbean Circuit.

She has presented papers to the American Bar Association AGM and the Cayman Banking Association. Ms. Farmer also has extensive knowledge and experience in the international business sector.

 

Aviation

• Warsaw and Montreal Convention claims (cargo, passenger, baggage claims)

• Compensation claims for delay, cancelation or denied boarding claims

• Carriage by air disputes involving EU regulations

• Claims arising from unruly passengers

• Negligence claims, including personal injury, in an aviation and employment context.

Commercial

• Banking

• Finance

• International business

 

Consultation

• Vastly experienced in Management consultancy

• Property

• Transatlantic expertise

• Consumer retail

 

Download CV

Practice Areas

Insolvency

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.

Commercial and Chancery

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.

Employment

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.

Personal Injury

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:

• Workplace injury, co-employee violent assault and stress at work
• Fatal accident act claims
• Part 36 offers
• Road traffic accidents
• Slip and trip cases
• Occupier’s liability cases
• Health and Safety and other regulations
• Drafting infant settlement advices from low-level quantum to complex multi-track and Fatal Accident Act cases

Examples of cases which Nicola has worked on include:

• Acting for a wife and child in a multi-track Fatal Accidents Act claim with complex settlement negotiations with co-claimants and defendants. A sizeable settlement was obtained in this case which involved cross-jurisdictional and immigration issues and complicated quantum calculations.
• Acting for the claimant in a ‘multiple breakdown’ stress at work claim with complex causation and quantum issues. Settlement obtained through Part 36 offer.
• Instructed in a multiple-accident multi-track claim with a complex schedule of loss addressing care and permanent disability.
• Advising in the claim of a Scottish national in a road traffic accident in The Bahamas, in Bahamian proceedings.

Notable cases

• Arriva London Limited v K Eleftheriou UKEAT/0272/12/LA: After successfully representing the claimant and securing his reinstatement at the employment tribunal in his claim for unfair dismissal, successfully resisted an appeal of the reinstatement order and cross-appealed a Polkey deduction, achieving a higher monetary award.
• Re: Hartmayes (in liquidation), Companies Court, Chancery Division High Court: Represented liquidator in proceedings against company director, including private examination and arrest warrant.
• Kenneth Higgs v Leshelmaryas [2009] UKPC 47: Appeared for defendants in chancery Privy Council appeal, successfully arguing against adverse possession claim over commercial land situated in The Bahamas.
• Zohra Bi and Others v Elena Claughton and Direct Line Insurance, High Court QBD: Acted for claimant wife and child in multi-track Fatal Accidents Act claim with complex settlement negotiations involving both co-claimants (parents and siblings) and defendants. Cross-jurisdictional/immigration issues and complex quantum calculations. Obtained sizeable settlement.
• Dalriada Trustees Limited v South Horizon Trading Limited and Others, High Court, Chancery Division. Acted for defendant pension companies in claim for breach of trust.
• Suisse Security Bank & Trust Ltd (In Liquidation): Bahamas Supreme Court and Bahamas Court of Appeal. Advising in several litigations arising out of the liquidation of a company incorporated in The Bahamas, with assets in multiple jurisdictions.

Profile

Jimmy has been a tenant since May 2012. His practice includes a wide range of civil work, including:

• Commercial and Chancery
• Aviation and Travel
• Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
• Employment
• Public law

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).

Practice Areas:

General Commercial

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.

Employment

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.

Aviation:

Jimmy undertakes court, advisory and drafting work in matters relating to aviation and travel law, including:

• Carriage by air disputes involving EU regulations, the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions and associated passenger, cargo, baggage and delay claims.
• Denied boarding claims.

• Negligence claims, including personal injury, in an aviation context.

Recent cases:

• Acting for airlines in defending claims brought under Regulation 261/2004, where delays were caused by extraordinary circumstances.
• Successfully resisting various claims brought by passengers complaining of e.g. offensive treatment at the hands of airline staff, and of distress and loss of enjoyment as a consequence of erroneous denial of boarding.
• Representing tour operators in various claims for breach of contract and misrepresentation relating to package holidays.

Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

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.

• Recent cases include N v N City Council, in which he successfully represented a claimant who tripped over on a gravel verge in a council-run car park in her claim for personal injury.

Public Law

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.

Other Experience

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.

 

Download PDF CV

Practice

Christopher continues to be instructed by solicitors from his pupillage and undertakes a full range of civil paperwork and court instructions including:

• Commercial Chancery / Consumer Credit / Company and Trust disputes / Art Law
• Insurance / Personal Injury / Professional negligence
• Property & Land / Planning / Landlord and Tenant / Leasehold Disputes
• Aviation and compensation claims
• Employment
• Advisory, document review and disclosure

Aviation

Having undergone rigorous in-house training, Christopher welcomes court and paperwork instructions, from both solicitors and airlines directly, in the following areas:

• Compensation claims for delay, cancellation or denied boarding.
• Montreal Convention claims.
• Claims arising from unruly passengers.
• Insurance claims, including in relation to vessels and vehicles; and
• Package Holiday Regulation claims and Athens Convention claims

Commercial & Chancery

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:

• Contract claims
• Consumer Credit
• Trust disputes including Beddoe cost protection and Unit Trust structuring.
• Art law and Heritage Assets
• Costs
• Bonds and construction of terms
• Banking and Funds – including AIFMD, Investment Management and Agreements.

Examples of experience gained:

• Madoff Securities Trustee in Bankruptcy litigation in claims relating to Alternative Advantage, Kalix and HSBC
• Restoration of Ivory artefacts seized on importation
• Inheritance of purported Constable painting
• Disputed Bond redemption on behalf of Barclays Wealth
• Danish Polish Telecommunication Group I/S .v. Telekomunikacja Polska

SA opposing the adjournment of or non-recognition of an arbitral award

• Public interest grounds for departing from normal costs rules in appeals

Property

Christopher has a busy property practice and welcomes both court and paperwork instructions in the following areas:

• Landlord and Tenant
• Planning
• Leasehold
• Land including Easements and Covenants

Examples of work Christopher has undertaken:

• Assisting the Athlone House Working Group in the Athlone House Planning Enquiry.
• Successfully mediating settlement in a two day multi track possession trial.
• Successfully settled service charge dispute with construction issues.
• Assisted in asserting a construction easement against Railtrak.

Insurance, Personal Injury & Professional Negligence

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:

• Advice as to coverage Small claims and fast track trials and case management hearings Quantum and settlement hearings
• Letters of response, advice on liability and quantum, witness statements, and disclosure exercises
• Small claims and fast track trials and case management hearings
• Quantum and settlement hearings

Download CV

Profile

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.

Aviation and Travel

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:

• Carriage by air disputes involving EU regulations, Warsaw and Montreal Conventions and associated passenger, cargo, baggage and delay claims;
• Denied boarding claims;
• Negligence claims, including personal injury, in an aviation and employment context;
  
• International carriage by road and sea claims, including under the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR);
• Insurance claims, including in relation to vessels and vehicles; and
• Package Holiday Regulation claims and Athens Convention claims

Commercial & Chancery

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:

• Contract claims
• Consumer Credit
• Insolvency;
• Bankruptcy; and
• Costs

Personal Injury, Professional and Clinical Negligence

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.

Landlord and Tenant and Real Property

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.

Download CV

Profile

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.

Commercial and Chancery

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.

Aviation and Travel

Andrew has expertise in compensation claims under EC regulation 261/2004 and accepts both Court and paperwork instructions.

Insolvency

Andre regularly appears before the Bankruptcy Master in Belfast in bankruocy and winding up petitions and drafts and appears in numerous insolvency related applications.

Personal Injury

Andrew is regularly instuctured by Large Supermarkets and Industrial Employers in connection with accidents at work and accidents involving customers.

Profile

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.

Practice Areas

Commercial and Chancery:

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.

Insurance

Mina often acts for insurance companies and policyholders who were involved in road traffic cases, including complicated insurance issues.

Personal Injury

Mina also accepts instructions in personal injury and clinical and medical negligence matters.

Download CV

John has been a barristers’ clerk for some 40 years. In 2016 John accepted an invitation to return to the Temple and join the Chambers of Lawrence Power at 4KBW as its Senior Clerk. John was excited by the chance to managing a niche boutique set crafted to specialise in commercial law at the highest level.

As a result of John’s vast experience he has a wide range of skills including invaluable management, leadership and marketing skills, working with some of the most respected legal professionals. John prides himself on his professionalism, friendly and approachable nature providing an excellent service to ensure any inquiry is directed towards the barrister with the relevant set of expertise, to handle that matter.

Responsible with the general day to day running of chambers, John deals with fee negotiation at every level, diary management, and practice development. No problem is too big or small for our Senior Clerk, available by telephone John is happy to liaise with clients and committed to meeting your requirements.

John began in clerking having joined the chambers of C. Lewis Hawser Q.C. at One Garden Court upon finishing school in 1975. He remained at One Garden Court until 1989 when he joined the chambers of Michael Burke-Gaffney Q.C. at Lamb Building as first junior clerk as a result of a merger between civil practitioners at One Garden Court and Lamb Chambers. In 1993 John was appointed Senior Clerk at Lamb Chambers and remained in that position until 2015.

Outside of work John enjoys spending time with his wife and four children, attending White Hart Lane as a lifelong Spurs supporter, cycling, gym, swimming and horseracing.

 

An LLB and LPC graduate, Robert joined 4KBW in April 2016, working closely alongside our Senior Clerk, John Kelly.

Robert plays an integral role at 4KBW and assists tenants at every level. His workload includes overseeing legal operations, practice growth, chambers’ business activities, diary management, fee negotiation and marketing. Robert is also the first point of contact for all Direct Public Access clients. As a result of Robert’s legal education, he has a thorough understanding of the areas of law that 4KBW specialises in, as well as court procedure and legal process. This allows him to liaise with solicitors at a quality level.

Following LPC graduation, Robert spent 8 years living in Beijing. He was initially employed as an English teacher, he then taught UK law at some of the largest state-owned institutions in China including the State Intellectual Property Office of China, the China Construction and Engineering Company and the China Aluminium and Copper Corporation. He is a confident Mandarin speaker.

Outside work, Robert enjoys spending time with his wife and dog as well as watching Middlesbrough Football Club.

 

 

 

Sallie Berriff started working for Release (as a secretary and counsellor), an organisation started in the late 1960s to assist young people who needed guidance with legal, medical and psychiatric issues.  She has worked as a solicitor’s clerk, PA and finance administrator with lawyers in the UK and Australia; has been bursar of the Byam Shaw School of Art in London; manager of the Penguin Café Orchestra and has worked individually with artists and musicians.