Shuvra Deb
Overview
Shuvra commenced practice in 2008 at Ely Place Chambers and joined 9 Stone Buildings in August 2011.
Shuvra has a general Chancery and Commercial practice which encompasses in particular:
- Insolvency: many aspects of corporate and individual insolvency including petitions, disputed debts, insolvency appeals, validation orders.
- Company: including minority shareholder disputes and directors' duties.
- Commercial: aspects of commercial litigation, including contractual disputes, sale of goods, injunctions, partnerships and guarantees.
- Real Property/Landlord and Tenant: all aspects including easements and covenants, trespass, stopping-up of land, adverse possession, lease renewals, nuisance, dilapidations, residential and business tenancies.
- Chancery: aspects including trusts, rectification, wills.
- Alternative Dispute Resolution: mediations in employment and professional negligence cases, ICC procedure.
- Public Law: defending prosecutions made against companies supplying public services.
- Employment: unfair dismissal, discrimination and TUPE.
She undertakes advisory, drafting and Court work in most of Chambers' practice areas, regularly appearing in the County Court and in the High Court.
Publications and Lectures:
- November 2011 (expected publication) - contributor to Unincorporated Associations - Oxford University Press.
- March 2011 - "Company Voluntary Arrangements: Recent Developments" - International Corporate Rescue.
- April 2010 - lecture - Pitfalls in Private Residential Possession Claims.
- April 2010 and November 2009 - lecture - Commencing Insolvency Proceedings: Avoiding the Pitfalls.
Prior to joining chambers, Shuvra undertook legal advisory work for a number of charities including the Citizens' Advice Bureau based in the Royal Courts of Justice, focusing mainly on insolvency and property work.
- Member of the Bar Pro Bono Unit.
- Panel Consultant for groups with class actions in conjunction with Irwin Mitchell Solicitors.
- Member of the Schools and Universities Project at the Inner Temple.
- Participated in the Baby Barristers Scheme operated by the Treasury Solicitor's Department.
Qualifications
Shuvra read English Language & Literature at King's College London in which she obtained a First Class Honours Degree. She undertook the CPE at City University and the BVC at the Inns of Court School of Law. Shuvra was an Inner Temple scholar in her BVC year.
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- Insolvency
- Company
- Commercial
- Real Property/Landlord and Tenant
- Chancery
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Public Law
- Employment
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Call: 2007 Inner Temple
BA (London) First Class, Dip. Law
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