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Andrew Brooke

Call 2021

Overview

Andrew Brooke joined Chambers in October 2022, following  completion of his pupillage. He was supervised by Peter Shaw KC, Martin Young, Rory Brown and Giselle McGowan.

His practice encompasses all the core areas of chambers; Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Company, Land and Property, Private Client and Commercial.

He has been instructed as sole counsel in the County Court and the High Court in cases that ranged from possession and bankruptcy hearings to interlocutory applications and fast-track trials.


Practice Areas

Insolvency and Company +

Instructions as sole counsel  include bankruptcy petitions and annulment hearings.

Experience and involvement during pupillage:

  • unfair prejudice petitions
  • directors’ disqualification
  • bankruptcy petitions and annulment applications
  • winding up petitions (including equitable winding up)
  • misfeasance and preference claims
  • fraudulent trading and VAT fraud
  • share purchase disputes
  • claims against administrators
  • cross-border insolvency

 

Land and Property +

Instructions as sole counsel  include possession hearings, residential building disputes, forfeiture of commercial tenancies, advice on adverse possession, and fast-track trials.

Experience and involvement during pupillage:

  • possession and forfeiture
  • easements and rights of way
  • title and Land Registry
  • mortgages

 

Probate, wills, and trusts +

Experience and involvement during pupillage:

  • challenges to the validity of wills
  • mediation
  • undue influence
  • TOLATA applications and beneficial ownership disputes
  • Inheritance Act claims

 

Commercial +

Instructions as sole counsel include interlocutory application for delivery up of goods in conversion claim in the High Court.

Experience and involvement during pupillage:

  • freezing injunctions
  • interlocutory relief
  • anti-suit injunctions
  • commercial disputes, including agency, conspiracy, restraining covenants
  • cross-border judgment and insolvency recognition in the Court of Appeal

 


Additional Information

Chancery Bar Association

 BA (Cantab)

Andrew Brooke is an independent self-employed barrister registered with the Bar Standards Board of England; whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales which code can be found at www.barstandardsboard.org.uk; has full professional liability insurance provided by the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund Limited (ref BM 2930/082) (details of the world-wide cover are provided at www.barmutual.co.uk); is registered for VAT (reg. no. 423 1978 94); and can be contacted during chambers opening hours by telephone at 020 7404 5055 or by e-mail at clerks@9stonebuildings.com.

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