Strapline
A leading set specialising in commercial, construction, insurance and property law
Insolvency Issues in Professional Negligence Claims
20 Mar 2019, 17:00 - 19:00
Hardwicke, Hardwicke Building, New Square, Lincoln's Inn,London , WC2A 3SB
This seminar is specifically tailored to solicitors specialising in the field of professional negligence.
Jonathan Titmuss and Phillip Patterson will highlight common insolvency issues which can arise in professional negligence claims and will offer solutions as to how to overcome them.
The talk will cover:
- Moratoriums;
- Applications for permission to issue proceedings against insolvent companies and bankrupt individuals;
- Applications to restore dissolved companies; and
- The impact of the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010
Programme
17:00: Registration
17:30: Presentations
19:00: Drinks and canapés
Speakers
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Jonathan TitmussJonathan is a highly regarded senior junior who specialises in insolvency and restructuring.
The Legal 500 has ranked Jonathan as a leading insolvency junior for a number of years. He is noted as having “wide knowledge of technical insolvency and exceptional attention to detail” and having “sound commercialism”. He also accepts instructions in insolvency related commercial and property disputes.
Jonathan is known as a tenacious advocate and skilled strategist and tactician. He is popular and well respected by both his lay and professional clients for whom he is often seen as “go to” counsel.
Jonathan has an established practise dealing with the negligence of professionals involved in his core areas such as insolvency practitioners, solicitors and surveyors. He is recommended by Legal 500 in this area as well where he is recognised as being “responsive and knows his stuff”.
Jonathan is happy to consider different ways of funding cases including conditional fee agreements and he works with practitioners and funders to enable litigation to be funded to a successful conclusion whether following purchase and assignment or otherwise.
As an ADR Group accredited mediator, Jonathan is frequently involved in mediations and all forms of alternative dispute resolution.
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Phillip PattersonPhillip has a wide-ranging commercial and insolvency practice with experience of high value and complex disputes.
He has particular expertise in technical company law issues, which makes him an obvious choice for claims involving allegations of mismanagement and breach of duty as well as shareholder disputes.
Phillip handles a wide variety of banking and financial services disputes where his postgraduate qualification in banking law gives him a decided edge. A significant proportion of Phillip’s current and recent work concerns corporate and personal insolvency, a field in which Phillip is fast becoming a go-to junior for a range of matters.
Phillip also has experience of consumer contract issues, professional negligence claims and a variety of private client disputes.
Phillip worked as a support counsel, a judicial assistant and a report draftsman on the high-profile Al-Sweady Public Inquiry and was seconded to a leading London law firm for a period in 2015.
Phillip volunteers for the City Law School pro bono scheme assisting litigants in person in relation to winding up petitions. He speaks and understands French to a reasonable level.