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Chambers of Leolin Price CBE QC

LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3SU, ENGLAND
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306 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
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Jeremy Callman

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Ten Old Square (Chambers of Leolin Price CBE QC)

Position

Barrister specialising in Chancery – commercial litigation (partnership/LLP law, commercial disputes, banking/mortgage law, general contract and tort, insolvency and bankruptcy, professional negligence, sale of goods, property, landlord and tenant, company law); also non-contentious partnership law. Important cases: R v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, ex parte Rees-Mogg [1994] QB 552; In Re Highway Foods International Ltd [1995] 1 BCLC 209; Venables v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd (The Times 9 December 1998) CA; Tyler v Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea LTL 23/12/99 (re: abuse of process and compromise); Lafi Office & International Business SL v Meriden Animal Health Ltd (2000) 2 Lloyd’s LR 51; Uddin v Ahmed [2001] EWCA Civ 204, [2001] 3 FCR 300; Yasin v Chohan [2001] All ER (D) 292 (re: resulting trusts); Adams v Attridge LTL 3/12/2001 (re: confidentiality); Partridge v Lawrence CA LTL 8/7/2003 (construction of a deed and rights of way); Thomas-Everard v Society of Lloyd’s [The Times] 28 August 2003 (re: bankruptcy and Lloyd’s Names); Marsh v Sofaer & Griffinhoofe [2004] PNLR 24, [The Times] 10/12/2003 (re solicitor’s negligence and duties of confidentiality); The Society of Lloyd’s v Bowman & others LTL 19/12/2003 CA (re bankruptcy/Lloyd’s Names); The Society of Lloyd’s v Laws [2004] EWHC 71 (Comm) (re: amendment of pleadings); Soremekun v Omotunde [2004] All ER (D) 312 (re: third party setting aside a judgment); The Society of Lloyd’s v Surman and Ors LTL 13/10/2004 HC (re enforcement of charging orders); Ellis v Coleman LTL 10/12/2004 (goodwill and construction of a partnership agreement); Ridgeway Motors (Isleworth) Ltd v ALTS Ltd [2005] 1 WLR 2871 (re limitation and bankruptcy/insolvency); Horton & ors v Brandish & ors LTL 22/8/2005 (re estoppel and caution over land);Turner v Jacob LTL 16/6/2006 (re: constructive/resulting trusts, estoppel and tracing); Shaw v Finnimore & Watts LTL 9/3/2009 (re alleged profit-sharing agreement); Capewell v Boulton LTL 6/11/2009 (beneficial interest claimed in shares).

Career

Qualified 1991; Middle Temple; barrister member of the Association of Partnership Practitioners Committee 2008 to date; member of Professional Standards Committee 1994-98; articles published in ‘The Sunday Times’, ‘The Solicitors Journal’, ‘Mail on Sunday’, ‘Journal of the Association of Partnership Practitioners’, ‘Tolley’s Trust Law International’, ‘Journal of International Banking Law’, ‘The Charity Law and Practice Review’; provided advocacy and litigation courses to solicitors’ firms including Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain and Hammonds.

Member

Chancery Bar Association; Association of Partnership Practitioners (committee member); Professional Negligence Bar Association; Property Bar Association.

Education

Westminster School; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (MA Hons).

Leisure

Debating, (Observer Mace Debating Champion 1991), Hon Sec of the Legal Group of the Friends of the Hebrew University, theatre, badminton, and Member of the Garrick Club.

Practice Areas

Chancery (general); Litigation - commercial; Partnership

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