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Gary Lidington
Position
Gary Lidington specialises in the full range of commercial, commercial chancery and property disputes, including related professional negligence disputes, both in the English Courts and in arbitration. His practice includes sale and supply of goods and services, banking and financial services, partnership, company and insolvency, commercial agency and insurance matters, much of which has a strong fraud or multi-jurisdictional element. His property practice traverses the full range of landlord and tenant and real property matters. He has a growing and successful Oil and Gas practice. He is known for his practical, commercially-minded and client focused approach.
Career
Notable recent cases include: BP Oil International Limited v Bankers Petroleum Albania Limited ($54M breach of oil supply contract); a $440M UNCITRAL arbitration in the oil industry; Tullow Heritage Ltd v Heritage Oil & Gas Limited [2013] EWHC 1656 ($303M indemnity claim); Bank of Scotland v Pereira [2011] EWCA Civ 241 (leading authority on setting aside judgment/appealing when a party does not turn up to trial); acting for an IT services provider in a dispute arising out of $1Bn government contract; Close Invoice Finance Ltd v Pile [2009] 1 FLR 873 (relevance of Art 8 ECHR to charging order enforcement); Dartmouth Court Blackheath Ltd v Berisworth Ltd [2008] EWHC 350.
Education
BSc(Econ) Government & History (LSE); GDL (Distinction – top mark in year)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Gary Lidington –Radcliffe Chambers ‘Gary is professional, tenacious, and a delight to work with. He is a skillful strategist with an eye for detail who brings genuine vision to his cases.’
Radcliffe Chambers handles professional negligence claims arising out of property transactions, the financial services sector, and the administration of pension funds. Described as ‘responsive, reliable, and professional’, Peter Dodge is instructed on behalf of the claimants in a case centering around negligence in relation to an investment scheme. Gary Lidington is acting the administrators of two peer-to-peer lenders in a claim against property valuers – at issue is if the claimants, as distinct from underlying investors – suffered losses.
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Gary Lidington – Radcliffe Chambers ‘He has a firm grasp of the law, produces top notch pleadings and is first rate on his feet, delivering concise but powerful submissions.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Gary Lidington – Radcliffe Chambers ‘He has real attention to detail and gets the nub of a matter very quickly, providing very clear legal and strategic advice. His drafting is of the highest standard and his advocacy skills are very good.’