Hannah Thornley

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: hannahthornley@southsquare.com. Web: www.southsquare.com

Education:

Downing College, Cambridge MA (Law) 1998 - 2001

Brasenose College, Oxford BCL (Masters in Law) 2001 – 2002

Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law 2002 – 2003

Awards & scholarships:

Middle Temple Major Scholarship (Queen Mother) – 2001

Middle Temple Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition – 2001

Middle Temple Scholarship Accommodation in Temple – 2002/2003

Seton Scholarship (Downing) – 1999

Rebecca Flower Squire Scholarship (Cambridge) – 1999/2000

Professional career:

Called to the Bar October 2003 (Middle Temple)

Pupillage: 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn (2003-2004)

Areas of practice:

Corporate and Personal Insolvency, Commercial Litigation, Company, Trusts,

Banking and Finance, Professional Negligence.

Recommendations:

Recommended as an up and coming junior in Insolvency Law in Chambers & Partners 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Recent Cases:

Recently acted in a variety of administrations, liquidations, company and bankruptcy cases

Langard v Sheldon - Lochore, unrep. 2008 (Paul Girolami QC) – an important new decision on transactions at an undervalue

Acted as a junior to Richard Hacker QC for a Bermudian Company in a long-running multi-jurisdictional and multi-party commercial dispute (2006 / 2007)

Avis v Turner [2007] BPIR 6 – dealt with the workings of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996

Jones v Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [2006] UKHL 26 (acting as a junior to Michael Crystal QC) – dealt with international law issues in the House of Lords

Franses v Oomerjee [2005] BPIR 1320 – dealt with issues of after-acquired property

Regalway Care Ltd (in Liquidation) v Shillingford & Others [2005] EWHC 261 (Ch) – dealt with VAT Carousel Fraud and Injunctions

O’Meara Food Products Ltd & Others v Agricultural Development Bank of Trinidad & Tobago [2005] UKPC 6 (acting as a junior to Michael Crystal QC) – dealt with banking law issues

Acted as junior to Richard Hacker QC on the administration application for Courts PLC and Courts (UK) Limited (November 2004)

Publications:

Contributor to Gore Browne on Companies

Contributor to ‘Professional Negligence and Liability’ (ed. Simpson).

Contributor to “Company Directors” ed. Mortimore QC (forthcoming)

Interests:

Cinema, reading, hill-walking and playing or watching most sports.