Chambers of Alan Boyle QC
6 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3QS, ENGLAND
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Position
Barrister specialising in general Chancery and commercial litigation, including company, insolvency, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud. Recent reported cases include: Serious Organised Crime Agency v Perry [2011] 1 WLR 542, [2010] 1 WLR 2761 and [2010] 1 WLR 901; Expandable Ltd v Rubin [2009] BCC 443 and [2008] 1 WLR 1099; BBC v Sugar [2008] 1 WLR 2289; Tritton Development Fund Ltd v Fortis Bank (Cayman) Ltd [2006] CILR 268; Barrett v Universal-Island Records Ltd [2006] EMLR 21; Fraser v Oystertec Plc [2006] 1 BCLC 491; Harley Street Capital Ltd v Tchigirinsky [2006] BCC 209; Mumbray v Lapper [2005] BCC 990; Knox v Deane [2005] BCC 884; Oystertec v Davidson [2005] BPIR 401; Parnall v Hurst [2005] WTLR 997; Arrow v Edwardian Group Ltd [2005] 1 BCLC 696; Re PNC Telecom Plc (in administration) [2004] BPIR 314; Warley Continental Services Ltd (in liquidation) v Johal [2004] BPIR 353; Mamidoil-Jetoil Greek Petroleum Co SA v OKTA Crude Oil Refinery AD [2003] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 645, [2003] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 635, [2003] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 42, [2003] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 1; Gil v Baygreen Properties Ltd [2003] L & TR 1.
Career
Qualified 1995; Lincoln’s Inn; publications: author of Chapter 3 and co-author of Chapter 8 of Joffe, ‘Minority Shareholders: Law, Practice and Procedure’ (4th ed, 2011) and co-author of Chapters 9, 10 and 30 of Lightman and Moss, ‘The Law of Receivers and Administrators of Companies’ (4th ed, 2007); has contributed articles to ‘LMCLQ’ (‘Two aspects of the statutory derivative claim’), ‘Civil Justice Quarterly’ (including ‘The Rule of the Company at the Permission Stage in the Statutory Derivative Claim’), ‘Law Society Gazette’, ‘The Times’, ‘The Lawyer’, ‘New Law Journal’, ‘Counsel’, ‘Trusts and Estates Law Journal’ and ‘Solicitors’ Journal’. Recommended for company law, fraud: civil, insolvency and professional negligence by ‘The Legal 500’; for company, insolvency and corporate reconstruction by ‘Legal Experts’ and for commercial dispute resolution, commercial Chancery, company law and insolvency/corporate recovery by ‘Chambers & Partners’.
Languages
Hebrew.
Member
COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association; Insolvency Lawyers’ Association; ACTAPS.
Education
University College School; Magdalen College, Oxford (1993 BA Hons 1st, Literae Humaniores); City University (Dip Law with distinction).
Leisure
Cricket, jazz, author of ‘Cricket Grounds from the Air’ (Myriad Books 2nd ed, 2010).
Practice Areas
Chancery (general); Company; Litigation - commercial
