Charlie Newington-bridges > Chambers of Matthew White > Bristol, England > Barrister Profile
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Charlie Newington-bridges
Work Department
Commercial, Professional Negligence, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts
Career
Call : 2011
Charlie undertakes a wide range of commercial and chancery work in litigation, arbitration and mediation. He has experience of substantial, complex and high-value litigation in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He also has wide experience in the county courts and in injunction applications. His work is often court-based where he is recognised in the directories as ‘brilliant, the hardest-working counsel I have seen’. He regularly advises companies, partnerships, charities, trusts, and individuals. He worked in the investment banking industry for 15 years before coming to the bar and so has a particular interest and strength in company, investment, valuation and general financial services related matters.
Memberships
- Commercial Bar Association
- Chancery Bar Association
Education
- MA Oxford University (St Peter’s College)
- GDL and BPTC (College of Law)
- Diplock Scholar
Leisure
Charlie enjoys running and recently ran the length of the River Wye (150 miles) raising over £32,000 for charity in the process. He has completed over 20 marathons as well as the Marathon des Sables, a race across the Sahara. He also skied 500 miles in a race to the Magnetic North Pole. He enjoys cricket, fishing and horses. He is the chairman of an environmental charity and rivers trust, the Wye and Usk Foundation, and an education endowment charity. Charlie grew up in Gloucestershire and was at school in Bristol.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Company and insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Charlie Newington-Bridges – St John’s Chambers ‘Charlie is commercial, good with numbers, and able to get to the heart of matters quickly.’
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Charlie Newington-Bridges – St John’s Chambers ‘Charlie is an exceptional and persuasive advocate, with a calm but imposing advocacy style. He also displays a meticulous attention to detail when working on papers and builds easy rapport with clients.’
St John’s Chambers’ ‘excellent‘ commercial team offers its expertise to both businesses and individuals in relation to a wide range of disputes. John Dickinson ‘deals with difficult cases with ease’, including those involving local authority procurement claims, breaches of contract, restraint of trade, and fraud. In Capital Green Recycling v Bird, James Pearce-Smith represented the defendants in a significant claim for damages for misrepresentation and breach of warranty, brought by the overseas purchaser of shares in a waste recycling company. Matthew O’Regan specialises in competition disputes, while Charlie Newington-Bridges regularly displays a ‘superb mastery of company-commercial disputes‘, focusing on shareholder and partnership disputes, commercial contract disputes, claims relation to directors, and financial litigation. He recently acted for the first respondent in the High Court case of Duneau v Klimt Invest SA, which concerned the winding up of a listed company on the just and equitable ground of loss of substratum. Natasha Dzameh is a ‘confident advocate‘ who represents a wide range of clients, including financial institutions, international corporations, and individuals.