Benjamin Faulkner

Practice Overview

Ben joined Chambers in 2009 following the completion of his third six pupillage. His pupil supervisors were Michael Tennet QC and Julian Greenhill.

Ben is developing a broad-based commercial Chancery practice. He regularly appears in possession hearings, personal and company insolvency matters, and other applications in the High Court and in  County  Courts. He enjoys acting individually, or as a junior as part of a large team. Ben accepts instructions in all of Chambers' core areas, including real property, landlord & tenant, pensions, professional negligence, insolvency, company, contractual disputes, trusts, wills and probate and other private client matters, civil fraud and general commercial disputes. He has recently been instructed on urgent freezing injunction applications, in which he acted for applicants seeking urgent freezing injunctions without notice, and for respondents on short notice.

Out of court, Ben has undertaken a variety of advisory and drafting work, including advising on and pleading a multi-party partnership dispute, and settling a landowner's objection to a Town or Village Green application, as junior to Tom Lowe QC.

Ben also regularly judges mooting competitions for Cambridge University and has established an annual Wilberforce Chambers Advanced Advocacy Workshop at Cambridge to help students develop their advocacy skills further.

Recent  cases:

Johnsen v Wilson [2011]   This case concerned an application to amend an order, which partitioned a farm between the Claimant and the Defendants, under the slip rule in order to provide for a right of way over one part of the land partitioned. Ben, successfully resisted the amendment.

Qualifications

Ben was a Law Scholar at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 2007 with a first class degree, finishing fifth in his year. He was awarded the William McNair Prize in 2006 and 2007 for the top first at the College in his year.

He was awarded the Buchanan Prize for obtaining an ‘outstanding' grade in the BVC, as well as a Denning Scholarship and Hardwicke Entrance award by Lincoln's Inn.

Memberships

Ben is a member of the:

• Chancery Bar Association
• Association of Pension Lawyers (Associate member)

Publications

'A room with a view' New Law Journal Vol 160, No 7405.