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Outer Temple Chambers Offices
Outer Temple Chambers
THE OUTER TEMPLE, 222 STRAND
LONDON
WC2R 1BA
England
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Nicholas Hill
Work Department
Commercial and Chancery, pensions, Financial services, Employment and Discrimination, Professional Negligence
Position
Career
Nicholas Hill was called to the bar in 2008.
Nick practises in commercial and chancery law with a focus on pensions, financial services and professional negligence. He is much in demand for his expertise in cross-over work involving regulatory issues and commercial law. The directories recommend Nick for his client care, for his advocacy, for developing new arguments, and for finding solutions; he is described as being “second to none”.
Nick’s ongoing work includes professional negligence matters (for solicitors, benefits consultants and investment advisers), company disputes (including various insolvency matters), indexation work, and regulatory work both for and against the Financial Conduct Authority and The Pensions Regulator.
Memberships
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Nicholas Hill –Outer Temple Chambers ‘Nick is exceptionally hardworking and intelligent. He can be relied on to fight his client’s corner with vigour and skill.’
Outer Temple Chambers is especially skilled with navigating professional negligence claims arising out of pension schemes. Nicholas Hill has a wealth of experience with professional liability cases in both the pensions and the financial services sector, including matters relating to negligent tax advice as well as claims against actuaries and solicitors. With more than three decades of experience, Andrew Spink KC is an expert with handling high-value claims concerning pension schemes. Lydia Seymour recently acted in Avon Cosmetics Ltd v Dalriada Trustees & Anr, a case concerning the validity of a negligent amendment to a pension scheme.
London Bar > Pensions
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Nicholas Hill –Outer Temple Chambers ‘He can be relied on to fight his client’s corner with great skill, and is adept at finding innovative solutions. He has extensive knowledge of the legal issues which arise in pensions disputes.’
Outer Temple Chambers is ‘a strong pensions set‘, and is well known for advising on pensions-related employment law matters. In a prominent case highlight, multiple members of the set – two silks and two juniors – appeared in Avon Cosmetics v Dalriada Trustees, in relation to an amendment being made to a pension scheme. The key issue of the matter focused on how to handle purported amendments to schemes made outside the scope of the amendment’s power, and when aspects of the amendment may invalidate the entire amendment. In a separate matter, Nicolas Stallworthy KC and Nicholas Hill acted in the notable BRASS Trustees v Goldstone and The Pension Protection Fund case, which involved the first reported approval of an application claim brought by a trustee to wind up the pension scheme’s sponsoring employers.