Adam Goodison

Contact details:

3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.

Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911. LDE 338 (Chancery Lane).
Email adamgoodison@southsquare.com. Web www.southsquare.com

Professional career:

Practising barrister at 3 / 4 South Square, Call Date 1990 (Middle Temple).

Elected member of the Bar Council Sept 1995-98; 2004-7; and 2007 to date.

Recommended as Leading Junior in Insolvency in Chambers Directory.

Areas of practice:

Specialising in commercial law / insolvency law (including contract, banking, company, trusts and recovery work).

Cases include:

BCCI, (acting for the Joint Liquidators and litigating in London and the Cayman Islands) (including judgments / orders from Scott V-C, Carnwath J, Rimer J, Jonathan Parker J and the Court of Appeal, England and Wales) (recovery work, breach of trust, breach of insolvency laws).

O.T. Computers Limited, (acting for the Joint Administrators) (judgments by Pumfrey J) (trust litigation).

TXU Group, (acting for the Joint Administrators) (judgment by Patten J) (administration work).

MG Rover Group (acting for the Joint Administrators) (judgment by HHJ Norris, Birmingham High Court).

Governor and Company of Bank of Scotland v Neath Port Talbot Borough Council (acting for HBOS) (judgments by David Richards J) (PFI contract / insolvency litigation).

Safe Solutions Accounting Limited (acting for the joint liquidators) (judgments / orders by Blackburne J) (recovery work, breach of trust, breach of insolvency laws).

AY Bank Ltd (acting for the Republic of Slovenia) (judgment by Morritt, Chancellor) (international litigation / insolvency work).

Overseas work includes assistance in Mentor (Bermuda) (insurance litigation), applications for relief from the Caribbean to the English Courts (s 426 Insolvency Act etc, Cayman Islands), numerous cases from Jersey (trusts, contract and insolvency work).

Reported cases include:

Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (No 4) [1995] BCC 453 (Sir Richard Scott V-C)

March v Westpac Estates Gazette (Bingham LJ & Hoffmann LJ)

Edward Erdman Property Ltd v Grosvenor Estates Ltd (Lightman J) Estates Gazette

Re Thirty Eight Building Ltd (In Liquidation) [1999] BCC 260 (Hazell Williamson QC)

Straume v Bradlor Developments The Times, June 1999 (HH Judge Behrens)

Holder v Supperstone Independent December 1999 (Evans Lombe J)

Re a Licence Holder & Ors (Saville v Gerrard) [2005] BCC 433 (Lewison J)

Re World Class Homes Ltd [2005] 2 BCLC 1 (Lindsay J)

AES Barry Ltd v TXU Europe Energy Trading Ltd [2005] 2 BCLC 22 (Patten J)

Publications and lectures include:

Contributor to chapter on Retention of Title in “The Law of Receivers” Lightman & Moss

Contributor to chapter on company voluntary arrangements in “Insolvency”, Totty & Moss.

Contributor to Rowlatt on “Principal and Surety”.

Paper and lecture on Retention of Title, Euroforum Conference.

Paper and lecture to the Council of Legal Education on “Insolvency Law” with Mark Phillips QC.

Paper and lecture on “Distress & Distraint” for the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency.

Various solicitor programme lectures (eg Linklaters & Paines, Frere Cholmeley, Wragge & Co).