Chambers of Jonathan Hirst QC and Nicholas Green QC
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Stephen Midwinter
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Position
Commercial law (currently engaged in major international civil fraud claim); insurance and reinsurance (currently engaged in several reinsurance arbitrations); banking; (currently engaged in several CDO disputes); european and public law.
Career
Qualified 2002; Middle Temple. Recent cases of note: Yugraneft v Abramovich (Comm Ct); Korea National Insurance v Allianz (Comm Ct and CA); Wasa v Lexington (House of Lords); Markel v Surety Guarantee Consultants (Comm Ct and CA); NTCS v Attorney General of Jamaica (PC). Publications of note: ‘After Etridge: The Endgame for Banks and Non-Commercial Sureties’ (2002) Cambridge Restitution Online Resource; ‘Subrogation Finds some Well-Settled Principles’ (2003) LMCLQ 7; ‘Causation, Loss and Double Recovery’ (2003) CLJ 23; ‘The Great Peace and Precedent’ (2003) 119 LQR 180; ‘Non-disclosure and Material Rumours’ (2003) 119 LQR 180; ‘Non-disclosure and Material Rumours’ (2003) LMCLQ; ‘Lloyds TSB v Lloyds Insurance’ (2004) 120 LQR 230; Aggregation of Claims (2007) Insurance Law Monthly (July).
Languages
French (good); Italian (conversational); German (basic).
Education
Verulam School, St Albans; Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (2000 BA; 2001 LLM; 2004 MA).
Practice Areas
Banking; Litigation - commercial; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance
