Felicity Toube

 

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 clerks@southsquare.com.  Web www.southsquare.com

Education:

BA (Magdalen College, Oxford)

BCL (First Class) (Magdalen College, Oxford)

Professional career:

1994-95 taught Restitution to BCL students with the late Professor Birks QC from All Soul’s College, Oxford

November 1995 Called to the Bar (Inner Temple)

Chambers and Partners – Junior Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring Barrister of the Year, 2006-2007.

Areas of practice:

Insolvency law, Company law, general commercial, professional negligence, banking, restitution

Jurisdictions in which appeared/advised:  England, USA (appearing pro hoc vice in New York in the Viacom litigation), EU (in particular realising property and unravelling frauds in France and Spain), Jersey, Isle of Man, Mauritius and British Virgin Islands (including appearing in the BVI Court in 2005 in a case involving a fraudulent preference in the Clariden Emerging Markets Debt Fund and advising in 2006 in relation to the Versailles collapse)

Reported and major cases:

Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Anderson and others (Ch Div) [1999] BCC 121

Njie v Cora (PC)

Re Continental Assurance Co (Ch Div) [1999] 1 BCLC 751

Re Douai School (Ch Div) [2000] 1 WLR 502

Re Ross (CA) [2000] BPIR 636

Horne v Dacorum Borough Council (CA) [2000] 4 All ER 550

UCT (UK) Limited (Ch Div) [2001] 1 WLR 436

Re Hawk Insurance Co (CA) [2002] BCC 300

Toshoku Finance UK Plc (HL) [2002] 1 WLR 671

Liberty Mutual v HSBC (CA) [2002] EWCA Civ 691

Cover Europe Limited (Ch Div) [2002] EWHC 861

BCCI v Bank of America (Ch Div) [2002] All ER 435 and [2003] All ER (D) 11

Queen’s Moat Houses v Capita IRG (Ch Div) [2004] EWHC 868, [2005] 2 BCLC 199

Marcus v Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ch Div) [2004] EWHC 3010 (Ch), [2005] BPIR 413

Confiance v. Timespan (Ch Div) [2005] EWHC 1557

Re Allders (Ch Div) [2005] EWHC 172 (Ch), [2005] ICR 867, [2006] 2 BCLC 1.

Re Globe Worstead; Ferrotec Limited (CA) [2005] EWCA Civ 1072, [2005] 4 All ER 886

Siteburn and Siteground (Ch Div) [2005] All ER (D) 270

Trading Partners Ltd v Cushnie (Ch Div) [2006] All ER (D) 99 (Jan)

Maccaba v. Lichtenstein Ch Div [2006] BPIR 994

Maccaba v. Lichtenstein QBD [2006] EWHC 1901 (QB)

Merrill Lynch International Bank Limited v Winterthur Swiss Insurance Company: In re Eurotunnel Finance Limited (Commercial Court) (2006)

Gamlestaden v. Baltic Partners (PC) [2007] UKPC 26

Re Henwood (Ch) [2007] EWHC 1579

Thurgood v. Coyle [2007] EWHC 2696 (Ch)

Saipem SPA v Rafidain Bank and others [2007] EWHC 3119 (Ch) [2007] All ER (D) 359 (Nov)

Renewable Power & Light Plc v David M Lewis [2008] EWHC 1058 (Ch)

 

Publications:

Restitution for Public Lawyers [1996] JR 92.

“Restitution under Article 85(2) EC Treaty - Can it be Done?” published in “Failure of Contracts”, ed F Rose

“Cross-Border Security Enforcement and the Conflict of Laws” published in “Restitution and Banking Law”, ed F Rose

Co-author of chapter on effect of the EU Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings on bankers and cross frontier security, OUP.

Numerous articles and case notes for “Insolvency Intelligence”

Editor of “Eurofenix” magazine case summaries

Editor of Totty & Moss case summaries

Case editor for Sweet & Maxwell Complete Insolvency Service CD Rom

Contributor to Lightman & Moss on Receivers

Contributor to Rowlatt on Surety

Contributor of Halsbury’s Laws, Volume 3(2) (4th edition 2002 reissue)

 

Lectures and seminars:

SPTL Contract and Restitution Conference (September 1996)

Euroforum Conference on Cross-Border Security (1997)

INSOL Europe Conference (2003)

Numerous talks in-house at solicitors’ firms (1999-2005)

   Hawksmere insolvency conference (2005 and 2006)

   Sweet & Maxwell insolvency conference (2005 and 2006)

   Jordans insolvency conference (2006)

ERA conference on SMEs (2007)

Chancery Bar  Association talk on EC Regulation (2008)

 

Positions of responsibility:

Board Member “Insolvency Intelligence”

Member of Insolvency Service committees on the EU Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings and UNCITRAL

Committee Member, Legal Friends of the Hebrew University

Trustee of Magdalen College Development Trust