Richard Morgan KC
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With a strong presence across Bermuda, the Channel Islands, and Hong Kong, maitland chambers is geared to handle asset recovery, insolvency, and shareholder disputes. Christopher Parker KC is experienced in professional negligence, fraud, and insolvency, recently securing the restoration of a buy-out order on an unfair prejudice application in Re JF Ming. Richard Morgan KC acted in Ivanishvili & Ors v Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Limited, defending a Bermudian appeal concerning a $607.5m fraud judgment. Matthew Collings KC represented the unsecured creditors in Northstar Ltd and Omnia Ltd, landmark proceedings on provisional liquidation and segregated accounts in Bermuda, while David Mumford KC acted for the Rasmala Trade Finance Fund in resisting a Cayman winding-up petition following Covid-19 losses.
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Testimonials
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- 'Luke Irons stands out for professionalism and responsiveness.'
- 'Luke Irons leads a team of responsive and diligent clerks. Danny Wilkinson and Hannah Rayner are available
- 'The clerks’ room provides consistently excellent service: professional, responsive, and solution-oriented. In particular, Luke Irons is approachable and proactive, always going above and beyond to ensure efficient diary management and smooth communication.'
- 'The clerks are absolutely wonderful. They understand the issues and work hard to sort them out.'
- 'Maitland Chambers is brilliant.'
- 'Maitland Chambers is sheer quality in every regard.'
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.
Michael Gibbon KC
Matthew Collings KC
‘Matthew is an intellectual powerhouse, he is extremely intelligent, and he has a modest disarming manner which is a great asset. His advocacy style is calm, measured, and he has a degree of courtesy rarely seen nowadays but which is devastatingly effective with both judges and witnesses.’
Christopher Parker KC
‘Christopher is incredibly bright, coupled with a punchy style. He takes no prisoners, is prepared, and on top of the facts. You definitely don't want him on the other side.'
Andrew Westwood KC
‘Andrew combines a thoughtful and pragmatic approach with being a highly effective advocate in court. He is calm, responsive, and he is a real pleasure to work with.'
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.
Leading associates
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.
Edward Armitage
'Ed is extremely bright, and very well versed in the law. He is a fantastic creative thinker and often sees angles that others do not. The quality of his research and understanding of the factual detail of cases is superb; and he also produces fantastic pieces of written advocacy. He is the complete package as a junior.'