Chambers of John Martin QC
8 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3QP, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7306 0102
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7306 0095
- DX:
- 311 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
- Web:
- www.wilberforce.co.uk
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Wilberforce Chambers is widely recognised as one of the leading chambers in its core specialist areas of commercial and financial services, pensions, private client and trusts, property, and professional negligence.
The set: With 48 barristers (23 QCs), the chambers is able to offer specialism at all levels of seniority and across the spectrum of commercial and Chancery work. It has individuals who have excellent reputations for their specialist capabilities in the additional fields of arbitration and dispute resolution, company, banking, insolvency, oil, gas and electricity law, intellectual property, information technology, sports and media law, planning, employment, and charities.
With its strength and depth of expertise, chambers undertakes many of the most complex and important cases, working hard to build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with its clients, who include leading UK and international law firms, multinational corporations, major organisations, private companies and individuals. Clients value the modern quality of chambers’ clerking and organisational management, and the approachable service provided by barristers and clerks.
Chambers frequently advises and appears in jurisdictions outside the UK, including the Bahamas, Bermuda, US, British Virgin Islands, the Caymans, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, Russia and the European Court of Justice.
Details of each individual member’s practice, including selected reported cases, can be found on the website, www.wilberforce.co.uk.
Types of work undertaken: The set’s aim is always to provide practical and effective advice and to settle disputes in the client’s favour by the most effective means available.
Commercial and other contracts: commercial contracts, banking, insurance loans and security, guarantees, Lloyd’s drafting and regulation, economic torts, breach of confidence, and oil, gas and electricity law.
Financial services and regulatory work: pensions, unit trusts, property enterprise trusts and collective investment schemes, and regulatory work, including investigations and disciplinary proceedings under the Financial Services Act 1986, Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, subordinate legislation and rules of conduct.
Property: all matters relating to land, commercial property transactions, landlord and tenant, property finance negligence and fraud, and mortgages and other securities.
Professional negligence: accountants, actuaries, auditors, barristers, solicitors, surveyors and trustees and construction-related professional negligence.
Pensions: occupational and personal pension schemes.
Trusts: drafting, advice on administration and construction, and contentious and non-contentious litigation.
Tax and estate planning (including offshore tax planning) and a wide range of tax litigation.
Company law and insolvency: including shareholder disputes, directors’ disqualification proceedings, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, and corporate and personal insolvency.
Arbitration and dispute resolution: advice and representation at arbitrations, or acting as arbitrator, in a wide range of commercial disputes, advertising and intellectual property rights.
Equitable remedies: injunctions, search orders, freezing injunctions, tracing, constructive trusts and proprietary estoppel.
Wills and probate: contentious and non-contentious, administration of estates, intestacy and family provision.
Charities, partnerships and associations: housing associations, clubs, societies and the law as it relates to other associations.
Above material supplied by Wilberforce Chambers (Chambers of John Martin QC).