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Chambers of Timothy Dutton QC

FOUNTAIN COURT, LONDON, EC4Y 9DH, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7583 3335
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Fax 020 7353 0329
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Adam Tolley

Tel:
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Email:
Fountain Court Chambers (Chambers of Timothy Dutton QC)

Position

Barrister specialising in employment law, commercial litigation, insurance and reinsurance and professional negligence. Cases include: HMRC v Ainsworth [2009] ICR 985; HMRC v Annabel’s [2009] ICR 1123; BERR v Neufeld [2009] ICR 1183; HMRC v Khawaja [2009] 1 WLR 398; Equitas v Horace Holman [2007] Lloyd’s Rep IR 567; Kumar v DCA [2007] 1 WLR 536;Hart v English Heritage [2006] ICR 655; Financial Services Compensation Scheme v Larnell [2006] QB 808; Mundi v Lincoln Assurance [2006] Lloyd’s Rep IR 353; Wilson v Clayton [2005] IRLR 105; New Century Farms v DEFRA [2006] 1 BCLL 801; Attorney General v Ebert [2005] BPIR 1056; Samcrete v Land Rover [2002] CLC 533; Bell Electric v Aweco [2002] CLC 124; [2003] 1 All ER 344; Cohen v TSB Bank [2002] BCLC 32.

Career

Called Inner Temple 1994; Inner Temple Major Scholarship, 1993; Eldon Law Scholarship, 1993; Scarman Scholarship, Inns of Court School of Law 1994; tenant, Fountain Court 1995; member of ‘A’ Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown 2007, member of the ‘B’ Panel 2003-07, member of ‘C’ Panel 1993-2003; co-author (with Prof. McKendrick) of ‘Restitution’ volume of Halsbury’s Laws (2000, Butterworths); contributor to ‘Sale of Goods’ (2000, LLP/Informa); contributor to ‘Carriage by Air’ (2000, Butterworths); co-editor of chapter 12, ‘Financial Services’ in ‘Professional Negligence and Liability’ LLP loose-leaf.

Languages

Working knowledge of French.

Member

Combar; Employment Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association.

Education

Hutchesons’ Grammar School; St Anne’s College, Oxford (1992 BA Jurisprudence; 1993 BCL).

Leisure

Walking, reading, football, swimming.

Practice Areas

Employment; Litigation - commercial; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance

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