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9 Stone Buildings provides a first class service to its domestic and overseas
clientele on all aspects of the law relating to land and property,
private client, companies, personal and corporate insolvency, finance,
business and commerce.
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Many members of Chambers are recognised as leading practitioners in
their fields. 9 Stone Buildings possesses the necessary ingredients of expertise and
commitment to provide a service as good as any at the Bar.
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Chambers news
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Chambers are delighted to welcome Charles Holbech as a member of chambers. As an established chancery practitioner he will add to the expertise of Chambers in the area of private client both contentious and non-contentious.
Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession (2010 Edition) states:
Commentators "find it hard to fault 9 Stone Buildings" due to the expertise of its personnel, who "evidently know their property law and their trust law backwards." Seasoned observers also warm to the set due to its provision of "that increasingly rare breed - helpful, pleasant and amenable clerks."
The Legal 500 (2009 Edition)
9 Stone Buildings has received recommendations of leading chambers and/or practitioners in the areas of :- Private Client: Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate ; Property Litigation; Insolvency and Construction
Chambers are delighted to welcome Conn MacEvilly as a member of chambers.
Conn joins 9 Stone Buildings from PWC in Gibraltar. He will greatly add to the expertise in the areas of Company, Commercial, Trusts, Regulatory and Employment
Chambers are pleased to announce that Edward Hewitt has accepted an invitation to join as the Junior Tenant, effective from 1 October 2009.
Chambers are pleased to announce that Joseph Curl has accepted an invitation to join as the Junior Tenant, effective from 1 October 2008
It is with very great regret that Mr. Cenydd Howells, who had been a member of these chambers for more than 40 years, died after a short illness on 24 January 2008
Vivian Chapman QC
Chambers would like to offer their warmest congratulations to Mr. Vivian Chapman who has been appointed Queens Counsel, effective from 16 October 2006.
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Recent cases
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Kotonou v Secretary of State (Norris J.) [2010] EWHC 19 (Ch) - An appeal against a directors disqualification order.
William Old International -v- Arya [2009] 2 P&CR 20 - Derogation from grant; Easements; Electricity supply; Servient tenement; Wayleaves
Heronsea (Mill Hill) Limited v. Kwik-Fit Properties Limited [2009] All ER (D) 75 (Mar). (2009) Env LR. [2009] PLSCS 65 (Queen's Bench Division. Construction of landlord's right to enter demised premises for the purposes of carrying out a survey. Whether landlord entitled to enter to carry out an environmental survey
Bhatt v Bhatt [2009] STC 1540 (rescission of deed of variation and declaration of trust for mistake)
Parkinson Engineering Limited v Yeldon & Swan [2009] EWCA 1366 Civ 13 January 2010 Court of Appeal (amendment of substitute liquidator as claimant in place of company after expiry of limitation period)
Relfo Limited v Varsani Jules Sher QC [2009] EWHC 2297 (Ch) (service on Defendant at last usual address; where resident; res judicata)
Oxford Pharmaceuticals Limited; Wilson v Masters [2009] 2 BCLC 485. Mark Cawson QC. (Preference and misfeasance claims brought by liquidator)
Gresham International Limited v Moonie [2009] 2 BCLC 256 Peter Smith J (retrospective sanction to liquidator to continue proceedings)
Harbour Estates Ltd v. Charania [2009] EWCA Civ 1123 - (Court of Appeal decision on the recovery of commission by estate agents in light of the decision in Foxtons Ltd v. Pelkey Bicknell)
Stimpson v. Southern Private Landlords Association [2009] EWHC 2072 (Ch) - (application for permission to bring proceedings in the name of a company)
Louise Penfold v Tommy Fuller [2009] All ER (D) 312 (Oct) Determined the correct interpretation of "the claimant" for the purposes of the Civil Proceedings Fees Order 2008 and CPR rule 3.7.
Coke-Wallis v Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales [2009] CP Rep 46, All ER (D) 147 (Jul) - Court of Appeal decision concerning a professional regulator's internal disciplinary proceedings. Dealt with autrefois acquit, res judicata, legitimate expectation and abuse of process and how these doctrines relate to professional discipline and regulation.
Majorstake Ltd. v. Curtis [2008] 1 A.C. 787. [2008] 2 W.L.R. 338 [2008] 2 All ER 303 [2008] 14 E.G. 102 [2008] 2 P & CR 2 (House of Lords. Leasehold Enfranchisement. Landlord opposing claim to an extended lease on grounds of redevelopment. Meaning of "any premises" within section 47(2) of the 1993 Act).
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