We are pleased to report Sharif Shivji has been awarded Insolvency junior of the year in the Legal 500 Awards 2020.
The Legal 500 UK Awards 2020
Lifetime Achievement Award
We are proud to announce that our senior clerk of 35 years, David Goddard, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Chambers UK. It is a fitting tribute to his long and continuing service both to chambers and to the wider clerking community. Click here for a link to his webpage.
Supreme Court Judgment
The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in Singularis Holdings Ltd v. Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd [2019] UKSC 50 clarifying the law on attribution to a company of a director’s fraud, and giving the judgment in Stone & Rolls Ltd v. Moore Stephens [2009] 1 AC 1391 its final quietus. Jonathan Crow QC and […]
The Legal 500 UK 2020 and Chambers UK 2020: a “first-choice chambers for commercial Chancery work”
Chambers is happy to report another successful year in The Legal 500 UK and Chambers UK. Chambers UK reports that “4 Stone Buildings has attained an imperious standing in the market for both the depth of its expertise and the strength of its advocacy across the full gamut of chancery law…”. We have been ranked […]
New Tenants
We are pleased to welcome Daniel Kessler and Nicholas Wright who have accepted offers of tenancy and will start practising as full members of chambers as of October 2019
Charles Marquand to attend COMBAR conference in Delhi
Charles Marquand will be attending the COMBAR India Roundtable conference in Delhi on 13th – 14th September with Justice Nariman and Lord Hoffmann attending as guests from British High Commission. The conference will focus on matters such as the respective rules of contractual interpretation in England and India, as well the concept of “court craft.” […]
4 Stone Buildings shortlisted in the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2019
We are delighted to announce that senior clerk David Goddard will be presented with the lifetime achievement award at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2019 on 31st October. Chambers has also been shortlisted for Company/Insolvency set of the year. Robert Miles QC and Jonathan Crow QC have been shortlisted for Chancery Silk of the Year […]
Emma Horner co-authors new guide to Civil Advocacy
We are pleased to announce that “On Your Feet: A Practical Guide to Civil Advocacy” by Clare Elliot, Brooke Lyne, Emma Horner and Chloë Bell has been published by Sweet & Maxwell. This book provides the reader with a practical guide of how to approach cases as a junior barrister, with the commercial chancery chapters […]
4 Stone Buildings appear in the Supreme Court in Cardiff
For the first time in its history, the Supreme Court sat in Cardiff from 22 to 25 July 2019. On 23 and 24 July the Supreme Court heard the appeal in Singularis Holdings Ltd v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd in the Ty Hywel building of Cardiff’s National Assembly. Jonathan Crow QC and Andrew de […]
Jonathan Brettler
With the greatest sadness we have to say that Jonathan Brettler has passed away. His final illness was short, and he was at home. His family have our heartfelt sympathy. Jonathan’s memorial service will be at 5pm on Tuesday 5 November at Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, to be followed by a reception in the Old Hall […]