Michael Brindle QC
Fountain Court Chambers
Temple
London , EC4Y 9DH United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7583 3335
Michael Brindle QC

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 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

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

Prizes & Scholarships

New College Oxford
Entrance Scholarship (Ella Stephens)

Appointments

Recorder of the Crown Court, 2001 
Deputy High Court Judge, 1999

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)

Law of Bank Payments

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