Commercial and Business Ethics

We use the full extent of the law to tackle social injustice and inequalities; narrow the wealth gap; and promote the ethical use of corporate power.

To contact the Commercial and Business Ethics clerks, please email timh@gclaw.co.uk or phone
+44 (0)20 7993 7600.

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We represent individuals and businesses in all types of commercial litigation, mediation and arbitration.

We are a diverse team who recognise that through regulation and litigation, corporate power can be challenged or used to further social and environmental objectives and to promote human rights.

Our team is committed to challenging unfair business practices, representing shareholders in petitions or actions against individual directors and providing robust advocacy in all aspects of commercial litigation.

Members of our team benefit from broad practices and work closely with our employment, professional regulation and property teams. We also assist our litigation teams and clients with expertise in areas such as obtaining interim relief, including urgent injunctions and freezing orders; recovering costs; and enforcement of judgments.

Areas of Expertise

  • Breach of contract
  • Civil and commercial fraud
  • Confidential information
  • Contractual performance during Covid-19
  • Construction
  • Consumer rights
  • Corporate insolvency including undervalued transactions
  • EU cross-border mergers
  • Force majeure and frustration
  • Partnership disputes
  • Personal insolvency
  • Professional negligence
  • Restraint of trade
  • Sale of Goods
  • Shareholders and directors

Recent Notable Cases & News

Garden Court Chambers celebrates 50th Anniversary

This year marks 50 years of Garden Court Chambers winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance.

Friday 31 May 2024

Oscar Davies joins Garden Court Chambers as new tenant

We are delighted to announce that Oscar Davies has joined Garden Court Chambers as a new tenant.

Monday 27 Nov 2023

Garden Court secures number one rankings in Chambers UK Bar Guide 2022

Garden Court Chambers is recognised once again in Band 1 of Chambers & Partners for community care law, protest law, immigration law and social housing law.  We are ranked as a leading set in crime, inquests and public inquiries, police law, Court of Protection, Administrative & Public Law and Family: Children law. We are delighted […]

Thursday 21 Oct 2021

Garden Court Chambers hosts Protect’s webinar ‘Let’s Fix UK Whistleblowing Law’

The webinar, hosted by the Garden Court Chambers Employment and Discrimination Team, and chaired by Garden Court Chambers Barrister Mukhtair Singh, took place on Thursday 29 April 2021.

Thursday 29 Apr 2021

Garden Court Chambers welcomes Abigail Holt as a new tenant

Abigail Holt was called to the bar in 1993. She specialises in medical, tort and negligence cases, with a particular emphasis on: industrial accidents and pulmonary disease, especially asbestos litigation; complex medical cases; challenging causation issues; clinical negligence; complex personal injury, including head injuries; regulation of healthcare professionals (especially GMC & NMC); Inquests arising from industrial […]

Monday 7 Sep 2020

Garden Court Chambers welcomes Paul Powlesland as a new tenant

Paul Powlesand was called to the Bar in 2009. Paul is passionate about protecting and representing the natural world and all who seek to defend it. He specialises in upholding the rights of environmental activists to protest and protect the natural world, and uses environmental law and regulations to defend trees, rivers and wildlife. Paul […]

Tuesday 4 Aug 2020

Past Notable Cases

 

Sanpya Shwe Ngar Company LTD v Sasco Foods UK Limited (2019).
Successfully obtaining summary judgment in the High Court for a Burmese importer, despite the Court’s initial scepticism (see paras 21 and 22), and successfully resisting defendant’s appeal.

Catalyst Managerial Services v Libya Africa Investment Portfolio* (2018).
Summary judgment obtained in the High Court on the first $15 million of the claim after a 4-day hearing and then representation at the Court of Appeal. *see para 26

ERDC Group Ltd v Brunel University
Successfully representing a contractor claiming payment for construction of state-of-the-art athletics facilities)

Multiplex Constructions (UK) Ltd v West India Quay Development company (Eastern) Ltd
Enforcement of an adjudicator’s award for a major contractor in relation to a 5-star hotel development.

Representing an oil consultant on her US$11 million arbitration claim under the LCIA rules for breach of contract for unpaid bonuses against a UK-based international oil company in relation to hydrocarbon exploration in West Africa.

Representing a claimant in a breach of a contract claim involving the sale of gold bonds for damages in excess of US$7 billion, including seeking enforcement of the English judgment in Switzerland under the Lugano Convention.

An application in the High Court, Chancery Division, for a third party to claim payment of €78,000 from the Respondent, an internet gaming and betting money-processing company, which were frozen under a separate ongoing dispute concerning the beneficial ownership of the Respondent.

C v B [2016] EWHC 3567 (QB): appeal against the striking out, on limitation grounds, of a counterclaim to a possession claim for knowing assistance to a breach of trust involving secured loans used to invest in a Ponzi scheme.

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