With ‘many fantastic barristers’, Serle Court represents both claimants and defendants in high-profile civil fraud cases in English courts and abroad, drawing on its expertise in banking and finance, insolvency, and trusts. In Magdeev v Tsvetkov and others, Jonathan Adkin KC, leading Adil Mohamedbhai, represented the second defendant in a multi-million-pound Commercial Court dispute between Russian businessmen, where each party claimed to have been defrauded by the other concerning the operation of a jewellery business. Hugh Norbury KC and Tim Benham-Mirando represent the fifth and seventh defendants in Jinxin v Aser Media and others, a $661m claim for deceit and unlawful means conspiracy, involving alleged fraud and misrepresentations related to the acquisition of media rights for Italian Serie A and FIFA World Cup matches. Wright, Rowley, BHS and others v Chappell and others sees Daniel Lightman KC and Charlotte Beynon representing a former BHS director in High Court claims by the BHS Group liquidators for alleged wrongful trading, misfeasance, breach of duties, and misapplication of funds before the companies went into administration.
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Testimonials
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- 'First-rate clerks. Nick Hockney and Dan Wheeler are widely respected in the legal profession.'
- 'Serle Court have the best clerks room.'
- 'Many fantastic barristers, and a first port of call on any company, commercial, trusts, and insolvency disputes.'
- 'Serle Court's willingness to offer training and seminars is excellent.'
Lawyers
Leading Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Elizabeth Jones KC
Philip Marshall KC
Philip is a brilliant lawyer: clever and powerful.’
Hugh Norbury KC
Justin Higgo KC
Daniel Lightman KC
Lance Ashworth KC
Dakis Hagen KC
2023 Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Dan McCourt Fritz KC
2025 Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Matthew Morrison KC
Leading Juniors
Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.
Simon Hattan
Paul Adams
Marc Delehanty
David Drake
Nicholas Harrison
James Mather
A super-smart junior.'
Adil Mohamedbhai
Charlotte Beynon
Zahler Bryan
Gregor Hogan
Sophie Holcombe
Oliver Jones
Stephanie Thompson
An incredibly thoughtful and analytical barrister.'
James Weale
His written submissions are crisp and his strategic input invaluable. He is highly responsive and a delight to work with.'
Rising stars
Rising stars at the Bar are defined as barristers between four and eight years’ call who are seen as up-and-coming members of the Bar in their respective practice areas by clients and peers alike. They will already be instructed in high-profile, complex, and high-value contentious and non-contentious matters, working with and opposite more experienced leading counsel.