Glen Davis

 

Date of birth:

11th September 1956

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 glendavis@southsquare.com.  Web www.southsquare.com

Skype: glendavis-barrister

 

Education:

University College School, Hampstead, London (1969-1975)

Balliol College, Oxford (1976-1979): First class honours degree in English Language & Literature; MA (Oxon)

City University (1990-1991): Dip Law (City)
London Business School (1990-1991): Diploma in Investment Management

Inns of Court School of Law (1991-1992)

Scholarships and awards:

Goldsmith Scholar (Balliol College, Oxford)

Professional career: summary

Bar Career

Called to the Bar 1992; pupillage at chambers of Gordon Pollock QC (4 Essex Court) and chambers of Michael Crystal QC (3/4 South Square)

Barrister in independent practice at 3/4 South Square, Gray’s Inn (1993-  )

Member, Insolvency Rules Committee (2002 - )
Member, Insolvent Partnership Reform sub-committee (2002 - 2003)
Member, Insolvency Courts Users Committee (2001- )

Member, sub-committee to advise the Vice-Chancellor on amending the Insolvency Rules to reflect the CPR

                         

Trustee/Director, Society for Computers and Law (2002 - 2006)
Chair, Media Board, Society for Computers and Law (2001 - 2006)

 

Pre-Bar Career

BBC Television (1979 – 1984): researcher on “Police” (BAFTA best documentary series 1982); producer/director and studio director, “Newsnight”; 

Brook Productions (1984-1986): Associate Producer, “A Week in Politics”;

ITV Superchannel Ltd (1986-1988): Manager of launch of pan-european satellite tv channel, Head of Publicity;

Media and Marketing Consultant (1988-1990);

 

Glen Davis was called to the Bar in 1992, after a first career in television and television management which included directing the BBC’s “Newsnight” programme and marketing a satellite television channel across Europe. He was subsequently a media and business consultant, and holds a diploma in Investment Management from London Business School.

He has been a member of Chambers at 3-4 South Square since 1993. His practice as a commercial litigator and advisor extends to all aspects of business, banking, company, financial and commercial law, including obtaining injunctions and remedies for civil fraud. There is a particular emphasis on corporate Insolvency including international aspects, and the recovery of assets in substantial bankruptcies. It extends to insurance and reinsurance, telecommunications, dot-com and e-commerce, particularly in the context of insolvency.

He applied for the first Administration of an insurance company after the Enterprise Act reforms, and for the FSA, provisional liquidators and liquidators in the first public interest provisional liquidation and winding up of an insurance intermediary.

He has also been specifically called to the Bar of Gibraltar where he acted for the Financial Services Commissioner and others.

 

He is an editor of Butterworth’s Insolvency Law Handbook (8th ed 2006), and one of the authors of Insolvent Partnerships (Jordans, 1996). He is a member of the statutory  Insolvency Rules Committee (appointed 2002) and of the Insolvency Courts Users Committee (since 2001).

Areas of practice:

Business, banking and financial law.  Domestic and international commercial litigation and insolvency. Insurance Insolvency. Expertise in corporate and partnership disputes and liquidation, administration, voluntary arrangements and restructuring. Financial Services and regulation. Public Law and Human Rights in a commercial context. Company law including directors’ duties, misfeasance and disqualification. Powers and duties of Insolvency Practitioners. Insurance and Reinsurance. Professional negligence. Civil fraud.

He is also particularly interested in the emerging law of e-commerce, e-banking and the internet, particularly as it affects restructuring insolvent companies. He has acted in telecommunications collapses and advised on regulatory aspects of UK web-sites and on the restructuring of dot-com companies, including data protection issues.

Professional Associations:

Appointed to the Insolvency Rules Committee by the Lord Chancellor, (2002-);

Member, Insolvency Lawyers Association;
Associate member, R3;
Member, Association of Partnership Professionals
Member, Insol Europe;

Member, Society for Computers and Law

Member, Justice

 

Other qualifications:

CEDR trained mediator

Publications:

Co-Editor, Butterworths Insolvency Law Handbook

Co-Author, Insolvent Partnerships (Jordans, 1996)

 

Recent lectures and seminars:

Changes to set off under the Insolvency Amendment Rules 2005

The Enterprise Act: duties and responsibilities under the new regime

Digital Liquidations and Cyberspace CVAs

Cross-Border Insolvency

 

Languages:

Conversational Spanish, German, French.

Other interests:

Contemporary Art

Garden design