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Professional negligence |
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Employment |
- Construction dispute involving claims by design companies leading to arbitration
- Dispute between actor and production company involving claims for injunctive relief and threatened termination of contract and production of the film
- Dispute between high profile personalities and their sponsorship companies involving restraint of trade
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- Dispute in relation to tax advice by advisors to entrepreneur
- Acting for author in his dispute against his accountants
- Dispute between solicitors and their former client relating to claims for professional negligence
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- Acting for Editor of major newspaper following his dismissal
- Advising director in response to injunction proceedings brought against him for alleged infringement of restrictive covenants
- Acting for company in injunction proceedings against former employees setting up in competition
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| Banking and finance |
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Directors’ disputes |
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Corporate reputation protection |
- Dispute between high profile entrepreneur and HM Revenue & Customs culminating in application for judicial review
- Dispute between individual and banking institution including five sets of separate proceedings
- Advising in judicial review proceedings against decision of matter regarding actions of HM Treasury and the FSA
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- Dispute between directors and advertising agency on the departure of the director involving his restrictions and profit entitlement
- Dispute in relation to directors' fiduciary duties pre- and post-termination
- Acting in dispute arising out of shareholders' agreement in relation to share options, restrictions and future involvement of the director in the company
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- Acting for banking institution to prevent leak of confidential information
- Acting for international pharmaceutical company to protect the privacy of their shareholders and protect them from intimidation
- Acting for national institution against investigative TV programme to prevent publication of allegations of wrongdoing
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Media and entertainment |
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Intellectual property |
- Dispute between premier league footballer and his clothing endorsement company concerning an agreement alleged to be in restraint of trade
- Acting for premier league footballer in relation to disciplinary action brought by the Football Association
- Claim by consortium of jockeys against the Jockey Club
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- Acting in film finance dispute involving question of enforcement of potential penalty clauses in the funding documentation
- Contractual dispute between sports personality and his sponsors
- Conversion case in relation to ownership of valuable artwork
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- Acting for multinational production company in protection of its IP rights worldwide including royalty claims, damages and injunctions
- Representing high profile individual in relation to disputes involving exploitation of his image rights
- Representing production company at trial relating to alleged copyright infringement in West End play
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