Supreme Court judgment on the leading case in gaming law
On 25 October 2017 the Supreme Court gave judgment in Ivey v Genting, now the leading case in gaming law and the law on dishonesty. The claimant, a world famous gambler, walked into Crockford’s casino in Mayfair and won nearly £8m at Punto Banco in just two sessions. There was no dispute about what he did: it was a card trick called edge-sorting: the only issue was whether it was cheating. The High Court, the Court of Appeal and now the Supreme Court decided that it was, setting a new standard of probity in gaming law and re-writing the law on dishonesty in the process. It has already been called “the most important case in a generation”. Crockford’s was represented by Christopher Pymont QC and Siward Atkins....
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Degorce film finance case in Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal today upheld the decision of the tax tribunal in favour of HMRC in the leading case Degorce v HMRC. Michael Gibbon QC acted for HMRC....
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The Chambers UK Bar Awards 2017
Congratulations to Catherine Newman QC who was shortlisted for 'Chancery - Silk of the Year' in the Awards. Maitland was also nominated for Set of the Year in the same category....
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Legal challenge against Conservative/DUP deal
Dominic Chambers QC has been instructed by David Greene, Senior Partner and Head of Litigation at Edwin Coe LLP, to lead the Bar team on behalf of Mr Ciaran McClean who is challenging the proposed confidence and supply agreement between the Conservative Government and the Democratic Unionist Party on the grounds that it would be contrary to the terms of the Belfast Agreement, popularly known as the Good Friday Agreement....
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China Training Scheme
Maitland Chambers has been selected to host a Chinese lawyer as part of the Bar Council's 'China Training Scheme'....
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Waterfall 1 - Supreme Court
Louise Hutton and Rosanna Foskett act for the Joint Administrators of LBHI2 in the Supreme Court Lehman Waterfall I litigation; judgment handed down today....
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Thomas Fletcher
Maitland Chambers is pleased to announce that Thomas Fletcher commenced practice from these chambers on Wednesday, 17 May 2017....
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Caley Wright
Maitland Chambers is pleased to announce that Caley Wright will commence practice from these chambers on Monday, 20 February 2017....
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Sale of Green Investment Bank
Catherine Newman QC and Matthew Smith are acting for clean energy investment business Sustainable Development Capital Limited in relation to the Government’s controversial sale of the public stake in the £2bn Green Investment Bank...
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