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Chambers of Alan Boyle QC

6 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3QS, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7242 6105
Fax:
Fax 020 7405 4004
DX:
1025 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
Web:
www.serlecourt.co.uk
Email:

Philip Marshall QC

Tel:
Work +44 20 7242 6105
Email:
Serle Court (Chambers of Alan Boyle QC)

Position

Barrister specialising in commercial fraud: (BTA v Ablyazov; Lexi v Luqman; Rabobank v NatWest; AWG v Morrison; Cala Cristal v Al-Borno; Canada Trust v Stolzenberg; Zakharov v White; Berry Trade v Moussavi); company/insolvency (Broughton v Hicks (Re Liverpool FC); Re Lexi Holdings; Re Transocean Manufacturing; Fraser v Oystertec Plc; Re Murjani, BIM v Maxwell; Re Hare Wines, Secretary of State v Vane, Re Northwest Holdings, Haig v Aitken, Rooney v Cardona; MT Realisations v Digital Equipment and Re MCI-Worldwide); professional negligence (Lexi v Pannone; Brown v GRE, Peach Publishing v Slater, Goose v Wilson Sandford); banking (Banque Saudi v LSI; Sirius v FAI; Wahda Bank v Arab Bank); general commercial litigation; Shanshal v Al-Kishtaini (sanctions legislation illegality) and De Beer v Kannar (Brussels Convention/ security for costs).

Career

Qualified 1987; Lincoln’s Inn; QC 2003; Recorder 2008; Deputy High Court Judge 2009; former Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge; publications: ‘Contributory Negligence: A Viable Defence for Auditors’, LMCLQ, August 1990; ‘Auditors Duties: A Narrow Approach’, LMCLQ, November 1990; joint editor and contributor ‘The Practice & Procedure of the Companies Court’ 1997 LLP; contributor on insolvency and company procedure in ‘Civil Appeals’ (ed. Sir Michael Burton).

Languages

French.

Member

Chancery Bar Association; Insolvency Lawyers Association.

Education

Merchiston Castle School; Queens’ College, Cambridge (MA); Harvard Law School (LLM).

Leisure

Football; horse racing, cricket.

Practice Areas

Fraud: civil; Insolvency and corporate reconstruction; Litigation - commercial

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