Practice Overview
Mark Hubbard is a litigator with a reputation for contentious trust and estates cases, civil fraud, regulatory and disciplinary matters, company, insolvency and commercial litigation, as well as advisory work in those fields. His practice has a substantial offshore and international element. Mark has particular experience of litigation in the Bahamas, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey and Switzerland.
He is praised by clients for his quick grasp of complex cases, reliability and the quality of his advocacy, advice and client skills, he "comes up with commercial, practical and creative solutions" (Legal 500, 2016) and is described as "a very assured senior junior who is quick to grasp issues" (Chambers UK Bar 2017, Civil Fraud) and "very impressive in court" (Chambers HNW 2016).
His most recent cases include Marr v Collie 2017 (Privy Council, Bahamas, Trusts); Dinglis Properties v Dinglis Management [2016] 4 WLR 72 (civil fraud, freezing orders); Re K Trust [2016] WTLR 1225 (Guernsey, protectors, trusts); S v S [2015] 1 WLR 4592 (family, Jersey trusts) and Re Fenox (UK) Ltd [2015] All ER(D) 38 (Jan) (insolvency, arbitration).
Mark is the author of Protectors of Trusts (OUP, 2013), the first edition of an international practitioners work and of articles including "When ‘fraud’ does not unravel all", Trusts & Trustees 2013; "More about Schmidt", TQR 2014 and "Control & Ownership: and what's yours is mine too", TQR 2016. He is regularly asked to speak on domestic and offshore legal topics at home and abroad.
Mark is a member of the Bar Standards Board prosecution panel, STEP, ACTAPS and COMBAR and is recommended as a leading junior in the current editions of:
- Legal 500 Civil Fraud; Offshore (Band 1); Private Client: Trusts & Probate
- Chambers UK Bar Trusts (Band 1); Civil Fraud; Traditional Chancery; Offshore
- Chambers Global Private Wealth Law (Band 1); Offshore
- Chambers HNW UK Chancery: Traditional