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Nicholas Trompeter
Position
Nick is a commercial practitioner who acts in a wide range of business disputes, in litigation and arbitration, including those involving civil fraud, asset recovery, contractual claims, trusts, company and insolvency matters, and banking and financial services. He has significant expertise of landlord and tenant and real estate litigation. This gives Nick a strong grounding in professional liability disputes, in particular, in the property sector.
Career
Called in 2006. Appointed Silk in 2021. Previously appointed to the Attorney-General’s C Panel and B Panel of Counsel. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Co-author of Break Clauses (3rd Edition), Hart Publishing 2022. Previously acted as a judicial assistant in the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem.
Memberships
Property Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association
Education
New College, Oxford (MA Classics; New College Scholar); City University (CPE, distinction); ICSL (BVC, outstanding; Barstow Law Scholarship for coming third in the year; Du Cann Memorial Prize for highest overall marks in advocacy assessments); Wilfred Watson award from Gray’s Inn.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Nicholas Trompeter KC – Selborne Chambers ‘Nick knows his stuff and is very clever. His advocacy is very impressive – calm, relaxed but also forceful and gets his point across very clearly.’
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 5Nicholas Trompeter KC – Selborne Chambers ‘I rate Nicholas extremely highly for property litigation disputes.’
With a mixture of prominent property silks and juniors, Selborne Chambers features considerable experience in real property and landlord and tenant disputes, as well as more specialist areas such as breach of covenant, rights of light and adverse possession matters. Nicholas Trompeter KC represented the landlord in London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd, an ongoing matter which reached the Court of Appeal on one point, concerning if a cinema operator was liable for rent payments during periods when the premises were closed due to COVID-19 restrictions. Turning to the set’s juniors, Henry Webb represented the claimant in Hotel Management International Ltd v Coldunnell Ltd, a dilapidations trial in which the claimant received over half a million pounds, beating a Part 36 offer.