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Chambers of Michael Gibbon KC
Maitland Chambers
7 STONE BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3SZ
England

Living Wage

Position

Barrister specialising in corporate/commercial litigation with an emphasis on contractual and fiduciary claims including, in particular, commercial contracts, professional negligence; insolvency; property litigation including proprietary estoppel, landlord and tenant, interference with land and enforcement of rights over land. Recent reported cases include: Weavering v Peterson (hedge fund fraud); Aurora v Christie’s (auction house practice); McKinly v Nexia (accountant’s negligence); Masood v Zahoor (claims to rights over shares); Slattery v Moore Stephens (accountants’ negligence); Redevco Properties v Mount Cook (consent to alterations to leasehold property); McGowan v Chadwick (CA) (scope of liability of Court of appointed Receivers); Gillett v Holt (proprietary estoppel); Barings Plc v Coopers & Lybrand (expert evidence) and Goldstein v Conley (leasehold enfranchisement).

Career

Called to the Bar 1994; Lincoln’s Inn; QC 2014.

Languages

French.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.

Education

Rugby School; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (English Lit Part I; 1993 Law Part II; 1997 MA).

Leisure

Skiing, walking, wine.