Guy Newey QC
Maitland Chambers congratulates Guy Newey QC on his appointment to be a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division with effect from 12 January 2010.

Chancery Bar Association visit to Dubai

On 7 & 8 December Catherine Newman QC, Paul Girolami QC, Timothy Harry, Carolyn Walton and Lee Cutler presented papers at the Chancery Bar Association’s seminars in Dubai. For details of the visit click here. All of the barristers on the visit were admitted to practise in the courts of the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC).

Andrew Walker Wins Bar Pro Bono Award 2009
Andrew Walker has won the 2009 Sydney Elland Goldsmith Bar Pro Bono Award.

Andrew undertook a complex pro bono case, successfully representing a couple who had been the victims of a ‘sale and rent back’ scheme. The couple and their children faced eviction when the purchaser defaulted on the mortgage. Andrew persuaded the court to set aside the entire transaction, the first known instance of a person successfully challenging an action by either the landlord or mortgagee following a sale and rent back scheme. In addition, the case attracted a £20,000 pro bono costs order in favour of the Access to Justice Foundation.

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BCCI
Catherine Newman QC, who represents the Luxembourg Liquidators and the English Creditors’ Committee in the BCCI liquidation, recently appeared before the Luxembourg Supervising Judge in the Tribunal de Commerce in Luxembourg.