Brick Court Chambers

Alan Roxburgh is an experienced and versatile barrister with a mainly commercial practice. His intellectual calibre, powers of analysis, command of detail, drafting skills and sound judgment have frequently been highly praised in the legal directories. He has acted in numerous high-profile and long-running cases, including three major regulatory investigations arising out of the collapse of Carillion plc; leading cases in the Supreme Court concerning the recognition of trusts and the effect of transfers in breach of trust on equitable interests (Akers v Samba Financial Group) and the law of knowing receipt (Byers v Saudi National Bank); advising former shareholders in Madoff feeder funds in relation to claims in the British Virgin Islands for the recovery of redemption proceeds (the Fairfield Sentry litigation); acting for more than a decade as counsel to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry; and acting for the defendants in the British Coal Respiratory Disease litigation. He is the author (originally with the late Mark Hapgood QC) of the chapter on Bankers in ‘Professional Negligence and Liability’.

Reported and other important cases: Seaconsar Far East Ltd v Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islami Iran [1994] 1 AC 438; The Mahkutai [1996] AC 650; Nederlandse Reassurantie Groep Holding NV v Bacon and Woodrow [1995] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 404, [1997] LRLR 678; Camdex International Ltd v Bank of Zambia [1997] CLC 714; Republic of India v India Steamship Co Ltd, The Indian Endurance and Indian Grace (No 2) [1994] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 331, [1998] AC 878; British Coal Respiratory Disease Litigation (23 January 1998); R v Lord Saville of Newdigate, ex parte B [1999] EWHC Admin 232, [1999] EWCA Civ 1136; R v Lord Saville of Newdigate, ex parte A [1999] EWHC Admin 556, [2000] 1 WLR 1855; R (A) v Lord Saville of Newdigate (No 2) [2001] EWHC Admin 888, [2002] 1 WLR 1249; counsel to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, 1998-2010; AstraZeneca UK Ltd v International Business Machines Corporation [2011] EWHC 306 (TCC), [2011] EWHC 3373 (TCC); Standard Bank plc v Via Mat International Ltd [2013] 2 All ER (Comm) 1222; Fortress Value Recovery Fund I LLC v Blue Skye Special Opportunities Fund LP [2014] EWHC 1052 (Comm), [2014] EWHC 551 (Comm); Fairfield Sentry Ltd v Migani [2014] 1 CLC 611; Akers v Samba Financial Group [2014] 16 ITELR 808, [2015] Ch 451; ABN AMRO Fund Services (Isle of Man) Nominees Ltd v Krys (BVIHC (COM) 2009/0136, 11 March 2016).

Called 1992, Middle Temple.

Eton College; Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1993 MA); City University (1991 Diploma in Law).