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Mark Hubbard
Position
Mark is a Chancery barrister with a reputation as a litigator in commercial litigation featuring trusts, contentious trust and estate cases, civil fraud, shareholder disputes, company, insolvency and regulatory matters. He is often instructed to obtain or resist freezing injunctions and other urgent interim remedies. His practice has a substantial offshore and international element. Mark has particular experience of litigation in the Bahamas, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Singapore and Switzerland and is praised by clients for his quick grasp of complex cases, and for the quality of his advocacy, advice, and client skills.
Publications: Protectors of Trusts (OUP 2013), 1st edition of new international practitioners work. Author of current series of practice notes on shareholder remedies for Lexis PSL.
Career
Called 1991. Registered Foreign Lawyer Singapore International Commercial Court 2020. Licensed Isle of Man Advocate since 2003 on case by case basis. Member of BSB Prosecuting Panel 2005-2019. Lectures internationally and writes on trusts, fraud, offshore litigation, conflicts of law and related topics.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, STEP, ACTAPS, CFLA, Tech Disputes Network.
Education
Merton College, Oxford (BA first); City University (Dip Law).
Leisure
Travel.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Mark Hubbard –New Square Chambers ‘Mark is encyclopaedically intelligent and delivers his advice with clarity. He is capable of going toe-to-toe with the very best. His advocacy is his real strength.’
New Square Chambers is ‘an excellent set’ for the full range of contentious and non-contentious trust work. Nicholas Le Poidevin KC is ‘always able to explain difficult issues simply and clearly’ and specialises in breach of trust disputes, reorganisation of trusts, and litigation, while Lynton Tucker is experienced in matters related to offshore trusts. Mark Hubbard is working with Manx advocates in the Re Montpelier (Trusts and Corporate) Sevices Limited (in liquidation) case in Douglas concerning the liquidation of a trusts services provider, having been granted a temporary advocates licence, while closer to home Aidan Briggs represented (through a litigation friend) the severely disabled daughter of Cecil Parkinson and his mistress in an Inheritance Act claim against the former home secretary’s estate after maintenance payments stopped after his death.
London Bar > Company
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Mark Hubbard – New Square Chambers ‘Mark is highly skilled technically, offers pragmatic advice, and clients appreciate his experience and diligence.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Mark Hubbard –New Square Chambers ‘Mark is very calm and wise. An excellent advocate, but also a great reader of people, so hugely effective in settlement discussions.’
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Mark Hubbard –New Square Chambers ‘Mark doesn’t beat around the bush – he gets to the point, gives his advice in a clear and concise way and clients and judges alike love that approach.’