Christopher Nugee QC

Commercial CV

Christopher advises on and acts in relation to a large variety of commercial disputes, many with a chancery element.    

Recent and notable cases include:

• Acted for successful appellant in House of Lords in dispute over price formula in development contract.  This appeal re-examined the rule that negotiations are inadmissible on a question of construction and was also the first House of Lords case in many years to consider the doctrine of rectification: Chartbrook v Persimmon Homes [2009].
  
  
• Acted for successful respondent in Court of Appeal in dispute over sale of Lloyds broker: Square Mile v Fitzmaurice McCall [2006].
  
  
• Acted in an arbitration of a multi-million pound claim by the purchaser of a life business against the vendor for an indemnity in relation to pensions mis-selling [2006].
  
  
• Acted for successful claimant in an arbitration over an on-site electricity agreement as to whether the cost of carbon trading could be passed on by the generator to the consumer [2005].
  
  
• Acted for defendant in successful strike out of £35m claim based on share sale agreement: Havelaar v Amey [2005].
  
  
• Acted for successful respondent in Court of Appeal in resisting claim that a development was held on constructive trust for a potential joint venture partner: Kilcarne v Targetfollow [2005].
  
  
• Acted for British Gas in Commercial Court claim over equity redetermination of North Sea gas field: Conoco v Phillips.
  
  
• Advising owners and operators of power station over many years in relation to long-term electricity contracts, carbon trading, insolvency of counterparties, property contracts, shareholder disputes and other matters.