David Marks
Date of birth:
14th October 1946
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:
MA, BCL (
Professional career:
Called to
the Bar 1975 (Gray’s
Member of
Deputy
Registrar in Bankruptcy, High Court of Justice
Deputy Chairman, Data Protection
and Information Tribunal
Called to Irish Bar July
2002
Full Member of R3 – Association
of Business Recovery Professionals
Accredited Mediator with CEDR
(also on delegated Court of Appeal Mediation Panel).
Areas of practice:
Insolvency, (corporate and personal), commercial and company, banking, domestic and international sale of goods, insurance and reinsurance, financial services, drafting of commercial agreements, general Chancery work, bonds and guarantees.
Major cases:
National
Westminster Bank v Stockman [1981] 1 WLR 67
Latchford v
Beirne [1981] 3 All ER 705
Re Munro,
Singer v Trustee of Munro [1981] 1 WLR 1358
Standard
Chartered Bank v.
Re Kentish
Homes Limited [1983 unreported]
Re Stanley
Palmer Limited [1984] BCC 99226
Telemetrix
v Modern Engineers (1984) 4 BCC 99417 [1985] BCLC 213
Re Prime
Metal Trading Limited (1984) 4 BCC 99265 [1984] BCLC 343
Re
Woodroffes (Musical Instruments) [1985] BCLC 227 [1986] Ch 366
Coghlan
& Another v S H Lock (
Re Brooke
Marine Limited [1988] BCLC 546
Punjab v
Re Majestic
Recording Studios Limited [1989] BCLC 1
Re
Synthetic Technology Limited [1990] BCLC 378
Supasave
Retail v Coward Chance [1991] BCLC 529 [1991] Ch 259
Exchange
Travel Agency v Triton Property Trust (1991) BCC 341
Guyana
& Trinidad Mutual Fire v Plummer & Associates Limited [1992] 8
Construction Law Journal 1171 (Privy Council)
Elpis
Maritime v. Marti Chartering [1992] 1 AC 21 (H.L.)
MS Fashions
v BCCI [1993] BCLC 280
Rotesh
Incorporated & Others v Egbe & Others CA (2 December 1993 unreported)
ICIC v
Adham [1994] 1 BCLC 66
Trustees of
the Bankruptcy of Ross v Jeffs CA (15th July 1994 unreported)
Re Lewis’s
of Leicester Limited [1995] BCC 544, [1994] 1 BCLC 428
Re A Debtor
(26 of 1991) [1996] BCC 246
John Dee Group Limited v WMH (21) Limited (formerly Magnet) [1997] BCC
518, [1998] BCC 972
Re Ross
[1998] BCC 29, [1998] 1 BCLC 56
Re Datadeck
Limited [1998] BCC 694
Re Sobey
[1999] BPIR 1009
Winchester
Commodities Limited v R D Black & Co (1999 to be reported)
Re
Hollicourt (Contracts) Limited v Bank of Ireland, The Times, 30 November 1999
(to be reported)
Re Empire
Paper Limited [1999] BCC 406
Bird v
Hadkinson [1999] BPIR 653
BCCI v
Akindele [2000] BCC 968 (CA)
Skjevesland
v Geveran [2000] BPIR 523
Treharne v
Brabon [2000] BPIR 537; [2001] 1 BCLC 11
Re
Ashurst v
Pollard [2001] 2 All ER 75
Re
Hollicourt [2001] 1 BCLC 233
R v
Secretary of State for Transport ex p
Factortame (no. 7) [2000] All ER (D) 2082
Solomons v Williams [2001] BPIR
Re de
Croos [2002] unreported
Re TTR Ltd
[2002] BCC 807
Re
Skjevesland [2002] BCC
Partick
Paul Leslie Wade & Jean Wade v Poppleton & Appleby [2004] 1 BCLC 674
Re MHMH Ltd
[2005] BCC 536
Major
Commercial ICC Arbitration,
Re K&K
Knitwear (Evans Lombe J) (2005: unreported)
Major publications:
Rowlatt on
Principal and Surety (4th and 5th Editions)
General
Editor of and leading contributor to Tolley’s Insolvency Law
Contributor
to Lightman & Moss: The Law of Receivers of Companies (1st, 2nd and 3rd
Editions)
Contributor
to recent publication by Oxford University Press on European Insolvency
Regulation.
Contributor
to Totty & Moss, Insolvency
Author of numerous articles on
insolvency and banking topics in such publications as Journal of Business Law,
Insolvency Intelligence, Irish Commercial Law Practitioner etc.
Also frequent Lecturer on those topics
Languages:
Bilingual:
French
Working
knowledge of German and Italian