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Chambers of Timothy Dutton QC

FOUNTAIN COURT, LONDON, EC4Y 9DH, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7583 3335
Fax:
Fax 020 7353 0329
DX:
5LDE
Web:
www.fountaincourt.co.uk
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Bridget Lucas

Tel:
Work +44 20 7583 3335
Email:
Fountain Court Chambers (Chambers of Timothy Dutton QC)

Position

Bridget has a broad practice spanning commercial and chancery litigation and arbitration. She has acted in company and insolvency proceedings, including joint venture and shareholder disputes, misfeasance proceedings, directors’ duties, disqualification proceedings, receivership, winding up and asset recovery. She also advises in connection with regulatory proceedings arising in the context of financial services. She undertakes civil fraud work and has recently acted on urgent injunction and disclosure applications and in asset recovery proceedings. She recently acted in ING Lease (UK) Ltd v Philip Ross Harwood (estoppel and collateral contract in bank guarantee claims). She has also been instructed in substantial international and domestic arbitrations and has recently appeared for mink farmers in their compensation claims against DEFRA. In the area of insurance and reinsurance, she has appeared in cases involving D&O cover and the Bermuda form and has recently acted in cases relating to substantial product liability claims in the US.

Career

Called 1989, Inner Temple; editor and contributor ‘Encyclopaedia of Insurance Law’ (regulatory section).

Member

The Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR; British Insurance Lawyers Association.

Education

Gordonstoun School; Worcester College, Oxford (1987 BA Hons Jurisprudence First Class).

Leisure

Riding, walking, skiing.

Practice Areas

Company; Insolvency and corporate reconstruction; Litigation - commercial

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