Felicity Toube
Contact details:
Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911. LDE 338 (
Email clerks@southsquare.com. Web
www.southsquare.com
Education:
BA (
BCL (First Class) (
Professional career:
1994-95 taught Restitution to BCL students with the late
Professor Birks QC from All Soul’s College,
November 1995 Called to the Bar (
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
Njie v Cora (PC)
Re Continental Assurance Co (Ch Div) [1999] 1 BCLC 751
Re
Re Ross (CA) [2000] BPIR 636
Horne v Dacorum Borough Council (CA) [2000] 4 All ER 550
UCT (
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
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 (
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
Numerous talks in-house at solicitors’ firms (1999-2005)
Hawksmere insolvency conference (2005 and 2006)
Sweet & Maxwell insolvency conference (2005 and 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
Trustee of