Practice Overview
Claire has a broad background in general and commercial Chancery litigation and advisory work, including a wide range of business and private contractual disputes, company, partnership and insolvency (both corporate and individual), civil fraud, forgery, shams and undue influence, property disputes, will construction and issues arising in the administration of estates.
Some of Claire’s recent cases involve:
- Enforcement of overseas judgment in England
- Unjust enrichment of the Crown
- Challenge to trustee in bankruptcy’s disclaimer of bankrupt’s home
- Disputed terms of management consultant’s corporate funding
- Breach of commercial storage services contract
- Challenge to appointment and acts of a Law of Property Act receiver of development land
- Judicial review of Definitive Map Modification Order (led by George Laurence QC). The case is currently on appeal to the Court of Appeal
- Challenge to trustees’ non-exercise of discretion in favour of a discretionary beneficiary
- Girlfriend’s claim for financial provision from deceased partner’s estate
- Challenge to bailiffs’ seizure of third party’s goods in third party’s premises
- Claim to shares in development companies
- Surrender and re-grant of residential leases
- Solicitors’ negligence in conducting litigation
Claire welcomes instructions directly from insolvency practitioners, chartered secretaries, accountants and others acting under the Licensed Access scheme. She is also qualified to accept instructions directly from members of the public under the Public Access scheme. For further information on Claire’s Public Access scheme work, please click here. Claire is happy to discuss without charge whether a particular case is suitable to proceed under the Licensed Access scheme or the Public Access scheme.
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