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Chambers UK Bar Awards
We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce Chambers won ‘Chancery Set of the Year’ at last night’s Chambers UK Bar Awards. Wilberforce were also runners up for ‘Real Estate Set of the Year’ and ‘Set of the Year’. Jonathan Seitler... Read more
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Fenner Moeran QC and Andrew Child join Wilberforce
Wilberforce Chambers are delighted to announce that Fenner Moeran QC and Andrew Child have accepted offers to join Chambers. The wealth of experience and excellent reputation in Contentious Trusts, Pensions and Commercial litigation that Fenner and Andrew bring to Wilberforce... Read more
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Lexa Hilliard QC to speak at Commercial Litigation & Arbitration Forum
Lexa Hilliard QC will be speaking at the Legal Week Commercial Litigation & Arbitration Forum on Thursday 5 November. She will be presenting the following session: Insolvency and arbitration: the latest developments Updates on the law: the latest cases you need... Read more
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Daniel Hochberg retires
Wilberforce chambers would like to announce that after over thirty years at the Bar Daniel Hochberg will be retiring from practice as of 1 November 2015. Daniel has been a valuable member who has contributed significantly to the success of chambers... Read more
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Events / Webinars
The future of the doctrine of penalties
On Wednesday 4th November the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the cases of Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi and ParkingEye Limited v Beavis, giving a definitive ruling (for the first time in a century) on the scope and... Read more
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Supreme Court victory in Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi
The Supreme Court today handed down judgment in the cases of Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi and ParkingEye Limited v Beavis, in which Joanna Smith QC and James McCreath acted for the successful appellant, Cavendish. For the first time... Read more
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Recent Cases
Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi [2013] EWCA Civ 1539 and [2015] EWCA Civ 402
The Supreme Court handed down judgment in the cases of Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi and ParkingEye Limited v Beavis, in which Joanna Smith QC and James McCreath acted for the successful appellant, Cavendish. For the first time in... Read more
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Legal Digest (Issue 2) Trust, Tax, Probate and Estates
Our second issue will explore key cases, highlighting areas of interest and importance, provide a summary of other notable decisions and flag up cases to be aware of going forward. Our aim is to provide easy access to a summary of... Read more
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Recent Cases
Re BCA Pension Trustees Limited: a new approach to construction.
In December 2015, Snowden J handed down judgment in the first reported case of the use of s.48 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 in the context of pension schemes. The case caused considerable interest, being described in the... Read more
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Gilead Cooper QC joins Wilberforce
Wilberforce Chambers are delighted to announce that Gilead Cooper QC has accepted an offer to join Chambers. Gilead Cooper QC, has a wealth of experience and an excellent reputation in contentious trusts and probate disputes. He recently acted for the... Read more
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