Ernest Leung

Ernest’s Experience

During his pupillage, Ernest was involved in and/or assisted in the following notable cases:

• Mad Atelier International BV v Axel Manes & Anor (DIFC), resisting the enforcement of an English judgment in the DIFC (with Jonathan Chew)
• Al-Rawi v Sidawi & Ors [2023] EWHC 1415 (Ch), a dispute over the share of profit in the acquisition, redevelopment and disposal of four prime real estate properties (with Simon Atkinson)
• Say Chong Lim & Ors v Chee Kong Ong & Ors [2023] EWHC 321 (Ch), acting for the claimants in a wide-ranging commercial fraud proceedings, including obtaining ex parte freezing and quia timet injunctions (with James Bailey KC and James Goodwin)
• Re Lehman Brothers (Waterfall III) [2021] EWCA Civ 1523, involving the proper construction of a subordination agreement (with Lexa Hilliard KC and Tom Roscoe)
• A two-day hearing in the Court of Appeal of the Isle of Man on the ranking of liquidation expenses, liquidator’s power to create security, and the legality of a subordination agreement (with Thomas Robinson)
• Acting for a HNW client in opposing a beneficiary’s challenge to the trustee’s exercise of powers of appointment for inadequate deliberation in a Guernsey trust (with Brian Green KC and Tom Roscoe)
• Adjoin Ltd v Fortytwo House SarL [2022] EWHC 2710 (Ch), a right to light dispute relating to a new development in the City (with John McGhee KC and Harriet Holmes)
• Acting for the landlord and owner of the Centre Point site in relation to a multimillion-pound scheme of works to replace the façade of the residential flats on that site (with Martin Hutchings KC and Harriet Holmes)
• Advising on the potential use of the court’s inherent power to remove a bilateral restriction on the register on an interim basis so as to ensure timely completion of a sales contract (with Jonathan Chew)