Christopher Brougham QC
Contact details:
Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911. LDE 338 (
Email christopherbrougham@southsquare.com.
Web www.southsquare.com
Education:
BA (Jurisprudence)
Professional career:
1969 Called
to the Bar (
1984 to date Deputy Bankruptcy Registrar
1988 Appointed Queen's Counsel
1990 - 1991 Inspector, appointed under Companies Act 1985 s.432(5), to investigate the affairs of BOM Holdings PLC
Areas of practice:
Insolvency, personal and corporate - Matrimonial financial provision/Insolvency - Litigation arising out of insolvency cases (security disputes, disqualification of directors, professional negligence, etc)
Some important cases:
Treharne and Sands v. Forrester [2003] EWHC 2784 (Ch); [2004] BPIR 338
Bankruptcy/Matrimonial: IA 1986, s.284 (Restrictions on dispositions of property); MCA 1973,
s.24 (Property adjustment orders)
Krasner v. Dennison [2001] Ch 76 CA
Bankruptcy: bankrupt’s estate: rights under a personal pension plan. Petition to the House of Lords allowed on 23 November 2000 (appeal settled)
Hellyer v. Hellyer [1997] BPIR 85 CA
Matrimonial: lump sum order against bankrupt
In re E.L.S. Ltd [1995] Ch 11
Receivership: distress for rates
Re Newman Shopfitters (
Administration: secured creditor
Smith (A Bankrupt) v. Braintree District Council [1990] 2 AC 215 HL (E)
Bankruptcy: committal for non-payment of rates
Royal Trust Bank v. Buchler [1989] BCLC 130
Administration: secured creditor
In re Tucker (R.C.) (A Bankrupt) [1990] Ch 148 CA
Bankruptcy: jurisdiction over proposed examinee abroad
Some other cases of interest:
Instructed on behalf of the Railtrack shareholders in Weir & Others v. Secretary of State for Transport and Others
Instructed on behalf of the trustees in bankruptcy of Asil Nadir, George Best and Jack Dunnett (former MP and President of the Football League)
Instructed by the Government on a number of occasions to represent the Official Receiver
Advised the Government in connection with possible disqualification proceedings arising out of the Blue Arrow report
Instructed on behalf of Swiss Bank at the onset of the collapse of the Maxwell empire
Instructed on behalf of Republic Insurance
Co, a multi-billion dollar creditor in the winding-up of Mentor Insurance in
Publications:
Joint Senior Author Muir Hunter on Personal Insolvency (Sweet & Maxwell)
Author Personal Insolvency chapter of Encyclopedia of Financial Provision in Family Matters (Sweet & Maxwell)
Principal author of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association’s response to the Government consultation document – A Fresh Start
Languages:
Written knowledge of French and basic knowledge of German