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Rory Brown
Position
Rory has a commercial-chancery practice focusing on litigation in the following areas: civil fraud; corporate insolvency; commercial dispute resolution; and contested trusts/probate.
He regularly appears in heavily contested applications and trials in the High Court, has appeared several times as sole counsel in the Court of Appeal and has made written and oral submissions in two appeals to the UK Supreme Court. He has advised and represented clients in the courts of the DIFC and has also advised and assisted in substantial Jersey proceedings. Much of his practice involves cross-jurisdictional disputes or has an international dimension.
He has particular expertise in applications for interim injunctive relief (in particular by liquidators), including freezing injunctions and anti-suit injunctions and related contempt proceedings. Rory is often instructed to advise and represent clients in alternative dispute resolution, in particular in mediations. He can take instructions and advise in German and Italian as well as English.
Career
Rory was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 2009. He undertook his pupillage at 9 Stone Buildings, and has been a tenant there since 2010.
Many of his cases settle without trial. Nonetheless, he has already appeared in over 30 reported cases across his practice areas, details of some which are available on his chambers website: Rory Brown – 9 Stone Buildings.
Languages
English (mother tongue), German (fluent), Italian (fluent).
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association Representative to the Bar Council; British Italian Lawyers Association; British German Jurists Association; Inner Temple; Bar Pro Bono Panel; Jesus College Cambridge Society; Glanville Williams Society; Hawks Club
Education
2009 – PhD (European University Institute (EUI), Italy) – Philosophy of Law and War
2007 – Visiting Scholarship, Columbia Law School, Columbia University, USA
2006 – MRes (EUI) – European, Comparative and International Law
2004 – Ma(e) (Cantab.) (Double First Class Hons.) – Law (including year at Regensburg University, Germany)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Rory Brown –9 Stone Buildings ‘Rory provides strategic and practical advice. He has excellent drafting and cross-examination skills.’
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Rory Brown –9 Stone Buildings ‘Rory gets to the crux of a matter and identifies the issues that need to be addressed. His advocacy and cross examination for a witness are very impressive.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Rory Brown –9 Stone Buildings ‘Rory has the advocacy skills of a silk. He is completely unflappable and deals with the most difficult points with poise and equanimity.’