David Marks

Date of birth:

14th October 1946

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 clerks@southsquare.com. Web www.southsquare.com

Education:

MA, BCL (Oxford University)

Professional career:

Called to the Bar 1975 (Gray’s Inn)

Member of Illinois and US Federal Bars (called 1973)

Deputy Registrar in Bankruptcy, High Court of Justice

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. Walker [1982] 1 WLR 141

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 (Australia) (1987) 4 BCC 183 (Privy Council)

Re Brooke Marine Limited [1988] BCLC 546

Punjab v Rome (No 2) (1989) 5 BCC 58785 [1989] BCLC 328

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 Niagara Mechanical Services [2000] 2 BCLC 425

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

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