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James Goodwin

Call: 2013   

+44 (0)20 7306 0102jgoodwin@wilberforce.co.uk

Insolvency

James also has a wide insolvency practice, and has extensive experience of bankruptcy and winding up petitions.

Recent instructions include:

  • Acting, led by Marcia Shekerdemian QC, in an application to set aside an administration order on grounds of improper purpose and COMI: Thomas v Frogmore Real Estate Partners GP1 Ltd [2017] EWHC 25 (Ch).
  • Acting (led by Lexa Hilliard QC) in a confidential application to restrain the presentation of a winding up petition in the context of a dispute between two high profile companies.
  • A (potentially) high-profile application for bankruptcy, in which James successfully applied on behalf of the respondent for the hearing to be heard in private and listed under anonymised names.
  • Clerk Details

    Mark Rushton +44(0)20 7304 2854
    +44 (0)7901 627 057

    Ben Rippengale +44 (0)20 7304 2890
    +44 (0)7899 814 015

    Nancy Lee +44 (0)20 7304 2985

    Antonia Matthew +44 (0)20 7304 2986

  • Qualifications and Appointments

    MA in Law, University of Cambridge, graded First (1st in University)

    LLM, University of Cambridge, graded First (1st in University)

    Awarded a number of University and college prizes, including the Chancellor’s Medal for English Law and Tapp Scholarship

    Taught contract law at several colleges in the University of Cambridge

    Bedingfield Scholar of Gray’s Inn

  • Memberships

    APL associate membership

    Chancery Bar Association

  • Publications

    ‘AIB v Redler’ (2014) Wilberforce Legal Digest (Issue 1) March 2015

    ‘Where there’s a will there’s a way: Marley v Rawlings’ (2015) Modern Law Review 140-150

    ‘Purpose Trusts: Doctrine and Policy’ (2013) King’s Law Journal 102-110

    ‘Reflexive Effect and the Brussels I Regulation’ (2013) Law Quarterly Review 317-320

    ‘A Remotely Interesting Case’ (2013) Law Quarterly Review 485-488

    ‘Failure of Basis in the Contractual Context’ (2013) Restitution Law Review 24-45

    ‘Secret Profits, Opportunities, and Constructive Trusts’ (2013) Restitution Law Review 85-92 (with Edward Granger)

    ‘The last Defence of Wednesbury’ (2012) Public Law 445-467

    ‘Contract, Unjust Enrichment, and Risk’ (2012) Law Quarterly Review 503-507

  • BSB/VAT information

    Registered name: James Edward Goodwin
    VAT number: 196242000

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