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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
Email:

Patricia Robertson QC

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

Position

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation and regulatory work, especially banking, professional negligence (in particular, legal and financial services) and regulation of professional and financial services generally. In particular, advisory work in relation to provision of financial services over the Internet, electronic money, Internet banking, and other issues under FSMA 2000 and The Legal Services Act 2007. Extensive experience of commercial/professional negligence mediations as advocate and now accredited by CEDR as a mediator.

Career

Called 1988, QC 2006, Inner Temple; internship, Brussels 1991; contributor, ‘The Law of Bank Payments’; editor, Brindle & Cox, Sweet & Maxwell, fourth edition (2010) (‘Plastic Money’ and ‘Internet Payment’); contributor, Bullen, Leake and Jacobs ‘Precedents of Pleadings’, 2004 (professional negligence); chapters on the liability of expert witnesses and on the liability of fund managers in ‘Professional Negligence and Liability’, ed M Simpson, Informa (loose-leaf); contributor to ‘Butterworths’ Guide to The Legal Services Act 2007’, ed Miller and Thorne 2009; contributor to ‘Cordery on Legal Services’, LexisNexis, Looseleaf.

Languages

French and Italian; basic German.

Member

Past contributor to ICC electronic commerce committee; board of the Bar Standards Board; Bar Standards Board working group on entity regulation.

Education

St George’s; Balliol College, Oxford (1986 BA); City University (1987 Dip Law).

Practice Areas

Financial services; Litigation - commercial; Professional negligence

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