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Recent Cases

Counsel General for Wales & Ors v Gareth Allen (as Official Receiver) & Ors [2022] EWHC 647 (Ch)

High Court of Justice

Thomas Robinson KC | Francesca Mitchell | Daniel Petrides | Daniel Scott
Wednesday 30 March 2022

News

Counsel General for Wales & Ors v Gareth Allen (as Official Receiver) & Ors

On Monday last week, the High Court handed down judgment in Counsel General for Wales & Ors v Gareth Allen (as Official Receiver) & Ors [2022] EWHC 647 (Ch). The case is the first occasion on which the courts have... Read more

Wednesday 30 March 2022

News

Legal Cheek Chambers of the Year 2022

We’re delighted to announce that Wilberforce won Chambers of the Year at the Legal Cheek Awards on 24th March. This award reflects chambers’ training, quality of work, colleague supportiveness, facilities and work/life balance, and the results are based on surveys... Read more

Monday 28 March 2022

Publications

Current Issues in Nuisance and Trespass

Jonathan Seitler KC | Joanne Wicks KC | Julian Greenhill KC | Tiffany Scott KC | Benjamin Faulkner | Jonathan Chew | Daniel Scott | Francesca Mitchell | Daniel Petrides
March 2022

News

New eBook: Current Issues in Nuisance and Trespass

The property team at Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to bring you the following ebook, comprising topical chapters and introductory videos from our barristers on the law of nuisance and trespass: Current Issues in Nuisance and Trespass (click here to view... Read more

Wednesday 23 March 2022

News

Dispute resolution: The role of neutral evaluation in mediation

Article by Sir Paul Morgan A series of developments in 2021 has meant that disputes lawyers must be more ready than ever to recommend mediation before or during litigation. The courts are prepared to use a different tool, that of... Read more

Friday 18 March 2022

Articles

Standing in the Chancellor’s Shoes: Equitable Remedies in the Tribunals

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Daniel Petrides Regular readers of this eBriefing will need no persuading of the labyrinthine nature of English tax law, even by the standards of Chancery practice.... Read more

By Daniel Petrides
Thursday 17 March 2022

Webchats

Disposals in administration [Part 2]: When is an evaluator independent?

David Pollard and Thomas Robinson have recorded our latest WebChat which discusses new restrictions on sales and other disposals in administration under paragraph 60A of Sch B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Administration (Restrictions on Disposal etc to Connected Persons) Regulations... Read more

David Pollard | Thomas Robinson KC
Monday 14 March 2022

News

Sir Paul Morgan appointed an Evaluator with Independent Evaluation

We are delighted to announce that Sir Paul Morgan has been appointed as an Evaluator with Independent Evaluation (IE), while remaining a full-time Arbitrator and Mediator at Wilberforce Chambers. IE is a unique form of dispute resolution that combines Early... Read more

Friday 11 March 2022

Articles

Personal Property+

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Gilead Cooper KC For every legal textbook on Personal Property, there is usually a whole shelf devoted to Real Property; the law of personal property is... Read more

By Gilead Cooper KC
Thursday 3 March 2022

Webchats

Disposals in administration [Part 1]: Who is “connected”?

David Pollard and Thomas Robinson have recorded our latest WebChat which discusses new restrictions on sales and other disposals in administration under paragraph 60A of Sch B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 and the Administration (Restrictions on Disposal etc to Connected Persons) Regulations... Read more

David Pollard | Thomas Robinson KC
Monday 28 February 2022

Articles

Can unlawful dividends received by company director/shareholders be later reclassified as remuneration to avoid liability?

By Jessica Brooke
Monday 28 February 2022