Marcus Haywood

 

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: marcushaywood@southsquare.com 

Education:

BA (Hons) Modern History, Mansfield College, University of Oxford

Postgraduate Diploma in Law, City University, London

Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law

 

Awards & scholarships:

Tancred Scholar (Lincoln’s Inn)

CPE Award (Lincoln’s Inn)

Hardwicke Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)

           

Professional career:

Called to the Bar November 2002 (Lincoln’s Inn)

Pupillage: 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn (2002-2003)

 

Areas of practice:

General Commercial and Company Law

Corporate and Personal Insolvency Law

Public and Administrative Law

 

Recent Reported Cases:

 

Particular cases of note Marcus has appeared in include:

 

§         Regina (Jackson and others) v Attorney General [2006] 1 AC 262; [2005] QB 579, CA

A case of major constitutional significance that involved a challenge to the validity of the Parliament Act 1949 and the Hunting Act 2004.

 

§         Wilkinson v West Coast Capital and others [2005] EWHC 1606 (Ch), [2005] All ER (D) 321 (Jul)

§         Wilkinson v West Coast Capital and others [2005] EWHC 3009 (Ch)

A section 459 of the Companies Act 1985 petition involving the Gadget Shop Ltd.  

 

Marcus has also worked on the following cases in conjunction with other members of chambers:

 

§         Parmalat Capital Finance v Food Holdings Limited and Dairy Holdings Limited [2008] UKPC 23 (On Appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands)

§         Fidelity Investments International v My Travel Group plc [2005] 2 BCLC 123 CA

§         National Westminster Bank plc v Spectrum Plus Limited [2005] 2 AC 680

 

Memberships:

Chancery Bar Association

Commercial Bar Association

                            

Publications:

Contributor to European Cross Border Insolvency, Sweet and Maxwell

Contributor to Gore Brown On Companies, chapter 54 (Administrative Receivers)

Co-author with Professor Ian Fletcher of Chapter 20 to Moss & Wessels, EU Banking and Insurance Insolvency, Oxford University Press