Adam Goodison

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 adamgoodison@southsquare.com. Web www.southsquare.com

Professional career:

Practising barrister in the Chambers of Michael Crystal QC, Call Date 1990 (Middle Temple).

Elected member of the Bar Council Sept 1995-98 and 2004 to date.

Recommended as Leading Junior in Insolvency in Chambers Directory.

Recommended as banking junior in The Lawyer, January 1999.

Areas of practice:

Specialising in commercial law (including insolvency, contract, banking, company, directors disqualification).

Cases include:

BCCI, acting for the Joint Liquidators (led by Michael Crystal QC or Richard Sheldon QC) instructed by Lovells or DLA Piper Rudnick. Cases include BCCI v Haque; BCCI v Shoaib; BCCI v Khan; BCCI v Makhan Jan & others; BCCI v Sajida Khan & others.

O.T. Computers Limited, acting for the Joint Administrators (led by Richard Adkins QC).

TXU Group, acting for the Joint Administrators of certain of the TXU companies (led by William Trower QC).

Numerous other insolvency related cases (generally acting for office holders or creditors).

Reported cases include:

Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA (No 4) [1995] BCC 453 (Sir Richard Scott V-C)

March v Westpac Estates Gazette (Bingham LJ & Hoffmann LJ)

Edward Erdman Property Ltd v Grosvenor Estates Ltd (Lightman J) Estates Gazette

Re Thirty Eight Building Ltd (In Liquidation) [1999] BCC 260 (Hazell Williamson QC)

Straume v Bradlor Developments The Times, June 1999 (HH Judge Behrens)

Holder v Supperstone Independent December 1999 (Evans Lombe J)

Re a Licence Holder & Ors (Saville v Gerrard) [2005] BCC 433 (Lewison J)

Re World Class Homes Ltd [2005] 2 BCLC 1 (Lindsay J)

AES Barry Ltd v TXU Europe Energy Trading Ltd [2005] 2 BCLC 22 (Patten J)

Publications and lectures include:

Contributor to chapter on Retention of Title in “The Law of Receivers” Lightman & Moss

Contributor to chapter on company voluntary arrangements in “Insolvency”, Totty & Moss.

Contributor to Rowlatt on “Principal and Surety”.

Paper and lecture on Retention of Title, Euroforum Conference.

Paper and lecture to the Council of Legal Education on “Insolvency Law” with Mark Phillips QC.

Paper and lecture on “Distress & Distraint” for the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency.

Various solicitor programme lectures (eg Linklaters & Paines, Frere Cholmeley, Wragge & Co).

Contributor to “Securities and Investment Review” on directors duties and liabilities.