Michael Brindle QC
Call date
1975
Silk date
1992
Summary of Practice
Work in the commercial/corporate sphere and in employment law. Emphasis on banking and financial services, company law, professional negligence in financial and commercial matters, insurance, arbitration and international trade. Experience in City-related matters, including litigation arising out of audits, take-overs and rights issues. Practice in chancery as well as commercial and common law courts.
Recommendations (Practitioners' Guides)
Michael Brindle QC is awarded 'Barrister of the Year' at the Lawyer Awards on Tuesday 22 June 2010
Michael Brindle QC is ranked by Chambers & Partners (2009 edition) as a leading silk in Commercial Dispute Resolution, Banking and Finance, Financial Services, Civil Fraud, Professional Negligence and International Arbitration. Comments include:
- “as is impressive on paper as he is in court” (Commercial Dispute Resolution)
- “the authoritative, eloquent & calming”
- “Silk that needs no introduction” “his consistency, efficiency & directness” have one him many admirers over the years & he is today as popular as he’s ever been” (Financial Services)
- “much more approachable than other counsel at his level” (Fraud)
- “effective with both continental & quintessentially English tribunals” (International Arbitration)
- “open minded and sound in judgment.”
- “superb in super-complicated frauds”
- Highly personable, affable and fluent in his delivery” (Banking & Finance)
- “an impressive presence in court.”
- A “leading light in this arena”. (Financial Services)
- “intellectually powerful in and an obvious choice for difficult and large frauds.” (Fraud: Civil)
Michael Brindle QC is ranked by Legal 500 (2007 edition) as a leading silk in Commercial Litigation, Energy, Civil Fraud, Professional Negligence and Sport. He is described as “outstanding” and “practically minded” whilst having “the ear of the court.”
Michael Brindle QC was named Banking and Finance Silk of the Year 2008 at the Chambers Bar Awards.
Education/Professional CV
Westminster School
New College, Oxford MA
Entrance Scholarship (Ella Stephens)
1972 First Class Hons Classics
1974 First Class Hons Jurisprudence
1976-82 Part-Time Lecturer at New College, Oxford - Jurisprudence
Chairman of International Committee of the Bar Council
Member of Financial Markets Law Committee
Chairman of Advisory Council of “Public concern at work”
Special Advisor to Trade & Industry select committee re Export Licensing and BMARC
Former chairman of Bar Council Education and Training Committee and Commercial Bar Association
Appointment to the SIAC Panel of Arbitrators
Appointed to the DIFC Courts Register of Practitioners
Notable Cases
Morgan Crucible Co plc v Hill Samuel (1991) Professional negligence
Caparo v Dickman (1992) Professional negligence Cape-Cure
Myers v McCarthy (1993) Insurance policy construction Lloyd's market
Re Bishopsgate Investment Management (1993) Constructive trust
Deposit Protection Board v Dalia (1993) Depositor compensation
Shah v Bank of England (1994) Banking regulation
Cala Cristal v Al-Borno (1994) Mareva injunction - costs
Mellstrom v Bank of England (1995) Banking regulation
Football Association v Graham (1995) Sports Law
Sunlife v Securities and Investment Board (1995) Judicial review - financial services
Camdex v Bank of Zambia (1) & (2) (1996) Champerty and mareva injunctions involving a central bank
Pointwest Litigation - BBL v Simmons & Simmons (1996) Solicitors' negligence and banking practice
Credit Lyonnais v New Hampshire Insurance (1996) Insurance contract - Governing law
British Gas v Eastern Electricity (1996) Commercial contract - consent to assignment
Central Bank of Trinidad & Republic Bank Limited (1996) Bank regulation - Trinidad
Camdex v Bank of Zambia (3) (1997) Garnishee orders and a central bank
Re Mid-East Trading Limited (1997) Winding-up of foreign company
BCCI v Price Waterhouse & Bank of England (1997) Interpretation of Banking Act 1987
Nuova Safim Spa v The Sakura Bank Ltd (1997) Derivatives
Bank Austria v Price Waterhouse (1998) Professional negligence
KAFCO v Trans-ammonia (1998) Arbitration - restraint of trade
Northern Rock v Archer (1998) Banking and sureties
Morgan Grenfell v SACE (1999) Export credit insurance and Italian law
Czarnikow-Rionda v Standard Bank (1999) Letters of Credit and fraud
Barclays Bank v Boulter (1999) Banking and sureties
Marks & Spencer v William Baird (2000) Certainty in contract and estoppel by convention
State of Brunei v Jefri (2000) Apparent or actual bias of judge
Barings v Coopers & Deloittes (2001-2) Auditors negligence
Customs & Excise v Barclays Bank (2003-6) Freezing injunction and duty of care
HSBC v Fortis (2004) Mutual Funds in the Bahamas
Riyad Bank v. Ahli Bank (2005-6) Islamic finance
R. v FSA ex parte Yukos (2006) Regulation of foreign companies issuing in London
Charter Plc v City Index (2006-7) Contribution and constructive trust
Weissfisch v Julius (2006) Challenge to foreign arbitration
Springwell v JPMorgan Chase (2007-8) Emerging markets investment through banks
IXIS v WestLB (2008) Securitisation
Stone and Rolls v Morre Stephens (2008) Auditors' negligence
Publications
- "Does Constructive knowledge make a constructive trustee?", Published in Australian Law Journal and Trust Law and Practice in 1987
- "Money Laundering and the Criminal Justice Act 1988": International Tax Report May 1995 and Tolley's International Tax Planning (1996 and 2001)
- "Confidence, Public Interest and the Lawyer" published in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility by Ross Cranston (1996)
- "The Law of Bank Payments" with Raymond Cox QC: FT law and Tax (1996) (Third Edition 2004)
- "The Vienna Sales Convention and the capital markets" in Capital Markets Law Journal (2008)
Other Experience
Chairman of Advisory Council of “Public Concern at Work”.
Former member of Financial Reporting Review Panel.
Former chairman of Commercial Bar Association.
Special advisor to Trade & Industry Select Committee re “Export Licensing and BMARC”.
Former chairman of Bar Council Education and Training Committee.
Chairman of International Committee of the Bar Council.
Member of Financial Markets Law Committee