Blair Leahy

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: blairleahy@southsquare.com. Web: www.southsquare.com

Education:

BA (York, First Class Honours)

MA (Essex)

Dip. Law (City)

Called to the Bar 2001 (Inner Temple)

Awards & scholarships:

British Academy Scholarship (1997/98)

Inner Temple CPE Bursary (1999/00)

Inner Temple Major Scholarship (2000)

Inner Temple Duke of Edinburgh Award (2001)

3 Gray’s Inn Prize for Advocacy (2001)

Areas of practice:

Commercial Litigation, Corporate and Personal Insolvency, Company.

Recommendations:

Recommended as an up and coming junior counsel for Insolvency and Corporate Recovery work in Chambers and Partners 2007 Guide to the Legal Profession.

Languages:

French & Italian (working knowledge)

Some recent cases:

Sunberry Properties Limited v Innovate Logistics Limited [2008] EWCA Civ 1201: acted for the administrators on their appeal to the Court of Appeal against the order of HHJ Simon Brown QC granting a landlord permission to commence proceedings against the company in administration.

Re Metro Nominees [2008] BCC 40: acted for the landlords on their application for permission to commence forfeiture proceedings against a company in administration.

Prudential Assurance Company v PRG Powerhouse [2008] 1 BCLC 289: acted for the successful objectors on an application for a declaration that a CVA purportedly approved by the creditors of an insolvent company had unfairly prejudiced the interests of the company’s landlords.

Re Cityspan Ltd [2007] 2 BCLC 522: acted for the liquidator of Cityspan Ltd on an application against a director of the company for relief under sections 212 and 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986.

Markham v Karsten [2007] BPIR 1109: acted for the petitioner on an appeal against the making of a bankruptcy order.

Re T&N Ltd Re T&N Ltd [2006] 2 BCLC 374: acted for the Trustees of the T&N Retirement Benefits Scheme on an application by the Administrators of T&N Limited and other group companies for directions on whether future asbestos claimants (that is those who have been exposed to asbestos but have yet to suffer any physical injury as a consequence thereof) would be entitled to prove in any future liquidation of the companies.

BCCI v Bank of India [2005] 2 BCLC 328: acted for the BCCI liquidators on an appeal to the Court of Appeal by Bank of India against the decision of Patten J (reported at [2004] 2 BCLC 279) giving judgment in favour of the liquidators of BCCI in the sum of US$82,302,941, with interest and costs under s 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986.