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:
LLB (King’s,
Professional career:
Jurist Linguist (French and Italian) at the
European Court of Justice (
[1973 to 1975]
Called to the Bar (Gray’s
Deputy Registrar of the High Court in Bankruptcy and Companies [1991 to date]
Areas of practice:
All insolvency related legal problems, particularly personal insolvency (including individual voluntary arrangements, deceased debtors and partnerships), pensions, professional negligence (insolvency practitioners), disciplinary proceedings (insolvency practitioners) and disqualification proceedings (directors).
Major cases:
Many “high profile” personal insolvencies
in recent years; most notably: Kevin Maxwell,
Asil Nadir, Darius Guppy, Jonathan Aitken (acting for Guardian Newspapers Plc),
Marc Golberg (Crystal Palace F C), Seifert Sedley (partnership IVA), Terry
Ramsden (securities), Jan Bonde Nielsen (acting for creditor of well-known
Danish debtor),
Jack Dunnett (ex Labour MP and former Chairman of Football League), Leo Kastner
(US producer of “Where Eagles Dare” and other films) and David Irving
(holocaust denying historian).
Cases relating to pensions and bankruptcy, particularly “Krasner v Dennison”.
20 to 30 reported cases in High Court and Court of Appeal.
Major publications:
Joint Senior Author Muir Hunter on Personal Insolvency (Sweet & Maxwell, 1987 to date)
Joint Author Asset Protection Trusts (Keyhaven, 1997)
Consultant Editor Bankruptcy and Personal Insolvency Reports (Jordans, 1996 to date)
Junior Author Williams and Muir Hunter on Bankruptcy (Stevens, 1984 to 1987)
Specialist Contributor to Rayden on Divorce (18th edition), Chapter on Insolvency, Bankruptcy and the Family.
Languages:
French and Italian, also a working knowledge of Spanish