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9 Stone Buildings offers expertise in both corporate and personal insolvency matters, and its barristers are highly regarded for their handling of insolvency litigation involving allegations of fraud or professional negligence. The set’s barristers also have experience handling directors’ misfeasance claims, while cases stemming from trusts or probate matters are also a key area of strength for the team. The set is regularly instructed in both domestic and cross-border claims, and its impressive client roster includes liquidators, creditors and government bodies such as HMRC. Clients note 9 Stone Buildings as a strong set for insolvency matters given its “high number of dependable barristers” and “broad array of expertise.” Members have recently been instructed on an IVA challenge in relation to the bankruptcy of high net worth individual Pramod Mittal.
Chambers and Partners 2024 Edition

The Legal 500 & Chambers and Partners

9 Stone Buildings has received recommendations of leading chambers and/or practitioners in the following areas:

Restructuring/Insolvency (Chambers and Partners 2024 Edition)
Real Estate Litigation (Chambers and Partners 2024 Edition)
Commercial Chancery (Chambers and Partners 2024 Edition)
Traditional Chancery (Chambers and Partners 2024 Edition)
Insolvency (The Legal 500, 2024 Edition)
Private Client: Trusts and Probate (The Legal 500, 2024 Edition)
Property Litigation (The Legal 500, 2024 Edition)
Civil Fraud (The Legal 500 2024 Edition)

Insolvency & Company

Property

Private Client

International

9 Stone Buildings has a wealth of expertise and experience in foreign jurisdictions and international law.

We have members who regularly act as advocates or advisers in Asia (particularly China, Singapore and Malaysia), the Caribbean (particularly the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands), North America, Europe (particularly Eire, Gibraltar and Switzerland) and Dubai.

Some members are regularly instructed in the UK offshore jurisdictions of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

We have members who are also members of the Bars of Northern and Southern Ireland, the Federal Bars of California and Arizona in the USA, Grenada and N S Wales in Australia.

9 Stone Buildings is considerably strengthened in this area by its Overseas Members who, as well as being members of the English Bar, are leading practitioners in their jurisdictions;

Nicholas Critelli, a trial attorney in the states of Iowa and New York, a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court and Former Chair of the Iowa Bar Association (2004)

James Levy Q C is a partner in the internationally known law firm of Hasans in Gibraltar.

Dr. Raymond Ashton is a member of the English and Irish Bar and a Guernsey Advocate. He is also a Chartered Accountant.

Commercial Litigation

Mediation & Arbitration

+ A Vice-President of the Valuation Tribunal for England

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Mediation, Arbitration & Conciliation Appointments

9 Stone Buildings has members who are certified mediators, arbitrators and who are instructed jointly by both parties to a dispute to provide a decision by way of written opinion.

A number of members hold part-time judicial and other appointments.

These include:-

+ Recorders
+ Inspector to conduct Public Inquiries under the Commons Registration Act 1965
+ Accredited Mediators
+ Members of the London (NE) Valuation Tribunal
+ Assistant Boundary Commissioners for the Parliamentary Review
+ Inner London Disciplinary Tribunal over London Teachers
+ Examiner of the Court

Some of our members are instructed as experts both to give evidence and to provide a written opinion in foreign jurisdictions.