Chambers of George Bompas QC
LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3XT, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7242 5524
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7831 7907
- DX:
- 385 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
- Web:
- www.4stonebuildings.com
- Email:
4 Stone Buildings specialises in company law, corporate insolvency, financial services and regulatory work, and commercial law.
The set: 4 Stone Buildings currently consists of 31 members, including six silks. Five members are currently on one of the Treasury panels. Five members are appointed to sit as deputy High Court judges and one as a recorder. Chambers belongs to the Commercial Bar Association and the Chancery Bar Association.
Further information about chambers and the work undertaken is available on the website (www.4stonebuildings.com). The clerk’s room is staffed from 8am to 8pm during term, Monday to Friday; and chambers can be contacted out of hours on the number given on the chambers answering machine and on the website.
Types of work undertaken: Company law; corporate fraud; corporate insolvency; financial services; shareholder disputes; commercial litigation; banking; international trusts; and public law.
Publications: members of chambers have contributed to numerous publications in the set’s specialist fields. These include: Annotated Companies Acts (Oxford University Press); Tolley’s Company Law; Atkin Court Forms (2nd edition, volumes on companies, winding up, and equitable remedies); Halsbury’s Laws of England (4th edition; volumes on corporations and money); and A Practitioner’s Guide to Directors’ Duties and Responsibilities (City & Financial Publishing). Malcolm Davis-White is the co-author of Directors’ Disqualification and Bankruptcy Restrictions: Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell), and Rosalind Nicholson is the author of Table A Articles of Association (Sweet & Maxwell).
International: chambers undertakes a substantial amount of work for overseas clients and members regularly receive instructions from the Caribbean, the United States, Europe and the Far East. In recent years, members have appeared in court in Hong Kong, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Gibraltar, Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Malaysia, Singapore, Nevis, Dominica and Trinidad. Various members of chambers have been called to these Bars for specific cases. In addition, certain members are full members of the Northern Ireland Bar, the Cayman Islands Bar and the Bar of the British Virgin Islands.
Recruitment: 4 Stone Buildings’ policy is to seek to recruit one new member each year from amongst its pupils. Prospective applicants for pupillage will find further information, including details of chambers’ awards, in the pupillage pack, which is available on request. Mini-pupillages are encouraged.
Above material supplied by 4 Stone Buildings (Chambers of George Bompas QC).