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Elizabeth Ovey
Position
Barrister specialising in pensions, retail financial services and building society work (litigation and drafting and constitutional issues relating to societies); trusts, wills and probate (contentious and non-contentious); professional negligence relating to solicitors, accountants, actuaries and surveyors (claimants and defendants); conveyancing and property litigation; cases include: Twogates Properties v Birmingham Midshires Building Society; Davies v Richards & Wallington Industries; Bowers v Bowers; Gibbon v Mitchell; Cheltenham & Gloucester Plc v Booker; Johnson v Gore Wood; Re T&N Ltd; Alitalia-Linee Aeree Italiane SPA v Rotunno; HR Trustees Ltd v German (the IMG case) Prudential Staff Pensions v Prudential Assurance Company; Danks v QinetiQ Holdings; the Pensions Regulator v A Admin; Arcadia Group Ltd. v Arcadia Group Pension Trust Ltd; NRAM Plc v Nelmes.
Career
Called 1978; Middle Temple; deputy judge of the Upper Tribunal; publications: co-editor ‘Wurtzburg and Mills on Building Society Law’; co-author ‘The Law of Investor Protection’ (2nd edition); co-author ‘Retail Mortgages: Law, Regulation and Procedure’.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Charity Law Association; Association of Pension Lawyers.
Education
Grammar School for Girls, Southampton; Oxford University (1977 BA).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Financial services regulation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Elizabeth Ovey –Radcliffe Chambers ‘Elizabeth is very careful and considered. She has good experience in the area of FCA regulated pensions, which a lot of pension barristers do not have, and therefore is a good senior all-rounder.’
London Bar > Pensions
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Elizabeth Ovey –Radcliffe Chambers ‘A keen legal mind, who can articulate complex pensions issues with precision and clarity. Counsel to have on your side.‘
Radcliffe Chambers is described as containing ‘top notch pensions counsel‘, which includes experienced members such as Keith Rowley KC and juniors Elizabeth Ovey, Henry Day, and Wendy Mathers. The ‘strong‘ pensions experience was demonstrated in cases such as Toyota Material Handling UK Limited v Mercer Limited, in which potential professional negligence questions were raised against former benefit consultants, and CMG Pension Trustees Ltd v CGI IT UK Ltd, in which trustees sought clarification on the scheme’s forfeiture provisions and its impact on unclaimed benefits.
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Elizabeth Ovey –Radcliffe Chambers ‘Technically strong, clear and concise advice and commercial approach.’
Within professional negligence, Radcliffe Chambers specialises in solicitor and financial professional negligence areas. Elizabeth Ovey recently acted for the claimant in the Toyota Material Handling UK Limited v Mercer Limited case, in which the principal employer and trustees brought professional negligence proceedings against their former benefit consultants in respect of advice to enter into a Deed of Amendment purporting to cap existing liability; failure to advise that previous advisers were or might have been negligent and there was a claim against them; and failure to advise of their own earlier claim negligence.