David Uff
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Recommended in the 2008 Edition of the Legal 500 as "an excellent tactician in insolvency litigation" and in the 2007 Edition as "an excellent tactician, very good on his feet, excellent with clients and commercially aware".
Areas of Expertise:
Email: clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk
Telephone: 0161 214 1500
Commercial
Key practice areas:
Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Commercial Chancery
Commercial Drafting
Company
Credit and Securities
Fiduciary Obligations
Fraud
Insolvency
Insurance and Reinsurance
Partnership and LLP
Professional Negligence
Property
Sale and Carriage of Goods
Tracing and Proprietary Claims
Undertakes direct public access work for a number of companies.
Recent examples of the work include drafting and advising on the interpretation and enforcement of contracts and advising on the efficacy of liability insurance designed and placed by brokers in the context of losses arising out of merchant acquirer liabilities.
Some recent cases of interest:
Collier v P & M J Wright (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ. 1329 [2008] 1 WLR 643 High Trees and D & C Builders Ltd revisited.
Parallel Imports (Europe) Ltd v Radivan and Another [2007] EWCA Civ 1373 Causation in fraud.
Rio Properties Inc and Another v Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Another [2005] EWCA Civ 534 Costs falling within undertaking by receiver Application of CPR Part 36.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher & Another v Rio Properties Inc [2004] EWCA Civ 1043 Jurisdiction to appoint interim receiver of a debtor's property other than the official receiver.
Ross v McGrath [2004] EWCA Civ 1054 Acknowledgment of several debts for the purposes of limitation.