Commercial Litigation

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Commercial Litigation

Fountain Court’s members are renowned for their expertise in commercial litigation, and their expertise is consistently recognized in the leading directories. Virtually every member of Chambers is involved in such work on a day-to-day basis. They advise and appear for clients both in the UK and overseas, in all types of business, commerce, finance and trade-related cases. 

By way of example, members have been involved in the following current or recent leading cases: 

  • The Bank Charges Litigation (OFT v Abbey National & Ors)
  • The Buncefield litigation
  • Three Rivers District Council v Bank of England
  • the Box Clever Securitisation litigation
  • Tajik Aluminium v Ermatov
  • the Barings litigation
  • Equitable Life v Ernst & Young
  • the Cable & Wireless/Pender litigation
  • Natwest v Rabobank
  • President and State of Equatorial Guinea v First System Design Ltd.
  • Williams & McLaren v Linklaters and Baker & McKenzie
  • Dubai Aluminium v Salaam
  • the Film Finance litigation
  • Sphere Drake v Stirling Cooke Brown
  • BAA v Ryanair
  • European International Reinsurance Company v Curzon & Marsh
  • Morgan Grenfell v SACE
  • AWG v Morrison


A number of members co-author The Law of Privilege (OUP 2006), a work particularly directed at commercial litigation, and a number of members have also co-authored Commercial Court Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell 2001).

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