Chambers of Timothy Dutton QC
FOUNTAIN COURT, LONDON, EC4Y 9DH, ENGLAND
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Brian Doctor QC
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Position
Barrister with a broad commercial law practice. He started his professional career as a solicitor in London, then practised at the Bar in South Africa (took Silk there after 10 years), and has practised at Fountain Court since 1992 (took Silk in England in 1999). His case experience includes banking, insurance, competition and general hard-fought business disputes, many of them between international litigants. He also sits as an arbitrator, and has extensive arbitration experience as counsel both here and abroad. In 2008-09 he appeared in several of the largest cases being litigated, namely: (1) on behalf of the Office of Fair Trading in their successful bank overdraft litigation against 8 banks; (2) for the Defendant race-courses in the competition-law litigation brought by the big bookmakers; (3) for the Defendants in Tajik Aluminium v Ermatov, one of the biggest ever civil claims (in excess of US$540m), involving allegations of fraud, bribery and conspiracy; and (4) in BTA V Ablyazov, which has already become a leading case on freezing order injunctions.
Career
Practised at Johannesburg Bar 1980-82; took silk in South Africa 1990; called Lincoln’s Inn 1991; tenant at Fountain Court 1992; QC 1999.
Languages
Afrikaans.
Education
King Edward VII School, Johannesburg; University of the Witwatersrand (1972 BA; LLB); Balliol College, Oxford (1975 BCL).
Leisure
Theatre, opera, reading, tennis.
Practice Areas
Commercial; Litigation - commercial; Fraud: civil
