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Maitland Chambers
7 STONE BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3SZ
England
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Duncan McCombe
Position
Barrister specialising in commercial and commercial chancery disputes. He has also been instructed in a number of arbitrations and reported High Court decisions. Duncan regularly appears unled in the High Court and the county court. He has experience of urgent injunction applications, both led and unled, including applications with complex jurisdictional issues.
Career
Called 2012: Lincoln’s Inn. 2015: Elected member of the Bar Council of England and Wales. 2016: Elected Vice Chairman of the Young Bar and appointed to the Bar Council of England and Wales’ Brexit Working Group; 2017: Elected Chairman of the Young Bar of England and Wales.
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Languages
Chinese, French, German.
Memberships
COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association; Young International Arbitration Group; International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitrators Forum; Financial Services Law Association; Inter Pacific Bar Association.
Education
Tonbridge School; St John’s College Cambridge (MA Cantab Chinese Studies); City University, London (GDL, distinction); BPP Law School (BPTC, very competent).
Leisure
Member of Chatham House and MCC. Enjoys triathlons.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Partnership
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Duncan McCombe – Maitland ‘Hardworking and easy to work with.‘
‘An excellent set of highly intellectual, experienced and street-smart barristers‘, Maitland Chambers‘ members are regularly sought out to act in civil fraud proceedings at all court levels. Richard Morgan KC recently acted for the claimant in defending an appeal brought in Bermuda by Credit Suisse in relation to a $607.5m judgment concerning life insurance premium-related frauds committed by an employee of the bank. Offshore, David Mumford KC is defending two prominent Ukrainian political figures against claims before the BVI courts that they fabricated a BVI trust, and then used it to seize control of several hundreds of millions of dollars of assets. In one of the most high-profile claims to be issued in the High Court in recent years, civil fraud junior Duncan McCombe represents the British Bankers’ Association in its defence to a US federal agency claim that the BBA and nine of the world’s largest banks) rigged LIBOR the former benchmark interest rate.