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Terence Mowschenson QC
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Position
Barrister specialising in Chancery/Commercial including matters relating to banking, breach of trust, companies (including shareholder disputes, shareholder agreements, technical aspects of company law, takeovers, stock exchange regulations, broking and dealing), financial services including dealing with disciplinary matters of SROs; instructed in Derby v Weldon, Maxwell (for the Mirror Group pensioners and Invesco, a fund manager), for KPMG in Ferranti v KPMG and for 3rd defendant in Grupo Torras; cases include Wicks v Firth [1983] 2 AC 214, Sharneyford Supplies v Edge [1987] 1 Ch 305, Scorer v Olin Energy Systems [1985] 1 AC 645, Crimpfil v Barclays Bank and Acatus v Hutchenson v Watson [1985] 1 BCLC 218, Eastglen v Grafton [1996], BCC 900 and Metalloy (Supplies) Ltd v MA (UK) Ltd [1997] BCC 165; BCCI v Prince Fahd (12.8.96 TLR); ABL Ltd v Trafalgar Holdings Ltd (CA); Wake v Renault (UK) Ltd [1996] jr L R 514 (for Renault (UK) Ltd); Deepak Fertilisers v Retrochemicals Corp and ICI Plc (for ICI Plc) [1991] ILLR 387; 1426 National Heart Hospital v Chettle; Eurobrokers Ltd v Monecom [2003] All ER 118; Re AXA Equity & Law Life Assurance [2001] 2 BCLC 447. Most recent cases include Dravnez Astallt v Hayek (disputes involving confidential information, law, intellectual property, director duties); Ludgate Administration v Northern & Shell Media (action in the balance of the proceeds of sale of the ‘Express’ newspaper, the construction of the tax warranty); HSBC Life (UK) Ltd v Stubbs (case involving analysis of financial futures and various derivative contracts); and the TXU Europe Group plc (in administration), a matter involving a director’s top hat pension scheme.
Career
Qualified 1977, Middle Temple; QC 1995; assistant recorder 1998; recorder 2000; part-time chairman Financial Services and Markets Act Tribunal 2001; deputy High Court judge 2003; part-time chairman Pensions Regulator Tribunal 2005; ADR mediator; Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 1990.
Member
Chancery Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association; Chairman Barristers’ Benevolent Association.
Education
Peterhouse; Queen Mary College, University of London (LLB Hons 1975); Exeter College, Oxford (1976 BCL); FCI Arb (1989).
Practice Areas
Banking; Insolvency and corporate reconstruction; Litigation - commercial
