Chambers of Leolin Price CBE QC
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Leolin Price Cbe QC
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Position
Head of Chambers specialising in Chancery and commercial work, revenue, trusts, land, charities and partnership; also handles constitutional and administrative law; important cases include: British Railways Board v Pickin [1974] AC 765 constitutional law; R v HM Treasury ex p Smedley [1985] QB 657 constitutional law/judicial review; Craven v White [1989] AC 398 tax; Brady v Brady [1989] AC 755 company law; Thomas v University of Bradford [1987] AC 795 charity/education, Lloyd’s Bank v Bundy [1975] QB 326 mortgages/undue influence; National Westminster Bank v Morgan [1985] AC 686 mortgages/undue influence; Lloyd’s Bank v Rosset [1990] 1 AC 107 mortgages/position of wives; CIBC v Pitt [1995] 1 AC 200 mortgages/undue influence; Baden v Society Generale [1993] 1 WLR 509 banking; Harvela Investments v Royal Trust [1986] AC 207 commercial law; Heath v Drown [1973] AC 498 landlord and tenant; Yuill v Wilson [1980] 1 WLR 910 HL taxation; Iverugie Investments v Hackett (1995) 1 WLR 713 PC, damages for trespass; Taylor v Serious Fraud Office [1999] 2 AC 177, HL, immunity from suit and undertaking not to use material disclosed in criminal proceedings; Norwich Union Life Insurance v Qureshi (1999) CA Lloyd’s losses; Hitch v Stone [1999] STC 431 taxation; Krasner v Dennison [2000] 3 AER 234: pensions/insolvency; Scout Association v Secretary of State [2005] STC 1808: land compensation; R v Special Commissioners of Inland Revenue [2005] STC 474: revenue; advising extensively on Australian referendum 1999 and House of Lords reform 1999 and, currently, EU law.
Career
Called 1949; Middle Temple; QC 1968; QC Bahamas 1969; QC New South Wales 1987; Virgin Islands Bar 1994; Gibraltar Bar 1996; bencher of Middle Temple 1970 to date; treasurer of Middle Temple 1990; chancellor of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon 1982-99.
Member
STEP; Chancery Bar Association; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; chairman Institute of Child Health (1976 to date); governor and trustee of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children (1972 to date).
Education
Judd School, Tonbridge; Keble College Oxford (1949 MA).
Leisure
Politics.
Practice Areas
Chancery (general); Private client - trusts and estates; Property - landlord and tenant
