Christopher Spratt
Overview
Christopher is a company law and commercial litigation specialist with over twenty years advocacy experience, following two years spent with a City law firm.
He is regularly instructed on high-value property, insolvency, employment, personal injury and professional negligence claims.
Representative Cases
- Clearview International Ltd & Ors v PWH.Com Ltd & Ors [2008] EWHC 1494 (Ch) (27 June 2008) - Instructed as lead counsel in a fifteen-day trial in the Chancery Division of the High Court. Issues included: freezing orders, formation and construction of a contract; commercial opportunities; database rights; joint venture; economic torts; breach of confidentiality; company law matters, including: directors' duties, derivative actions, meetings and resolutions:
- Layland v Fairview New Homes [2002] EWHC 1350 (Ch), [2003] BR 20, [2002] CILL 1898 - challenging the adverse conclusion of a single joint expert
- Currencies Direct v Ellis [2002] EWCA 779 - ss330, 341 and 342 Companies Act 1985, that payments made to a company director had been remuneration rather than a loan
- Younas v Chief Constable of Hampshire [2002] EWCA Civ 1936- that the Employment Appeal Tribunal should give reasons for rejecting any grounds of appeal whether to grant an appellant permission to proceed to a full hearing and should expressly state when an appeal was to proceed on all the grounds raised
Professional Associations
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Property Bar Association
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- Business & Commercial
- Property
- Wills, Trusts & Estates
- Insolvency
- Employment & Discrimination
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