Nicholas Trompeter

Nick's practice encompasses all areas of Commercial Chancery litigation, including commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters, corporate and personal insolvency, real property, trusts, contract and restitution. He regularly appears in the High Court and the County Courts, and has been involved in a number of multi-party mediations.

His present workload includes retainers on behalf of a number of banks and institutional lenders in professional negligence claims against both solicitors and valuers.

Nick also has experience in applications for orders for injunctions including, in particular, applications for orders for worldwide freezing injunctions (including those made pursuant to section 25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982).

Nick read Classics at New College, Oxford where he was a New College scholar. He went on to gain a distinction on the CPE at City University. He was graded Outstanding on the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law, receiving the Barstow Law Scholarship for coming third in the year overall as well as the Du Cann Memorial Prize for the highest overall marks in the advocacy assessments.

During the summer of 2008, Nick was sponsored by Gray’s Inn to work as a judicial assistant to Justice Melzer in the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem. During this time, Nick was involved in researching complex points of law and drafting memoranda in respect of many high profile and high value commercial disputes, including the largest class-action case yet brought in Israel.

Nick is a recipient of the Wilfred Watson Award from Gray’s Inn and is a representative for the Free Representation Unit.

Year of Call: 2006

Professional Memberships:
Property Bar Assocation, Chancery Bar Association

Recent and reported cases:

IHP Limited v Fleming, 10 July 2009 (QB)
(Claim for price of goods sold and delivered; service of the claim form out of the jurisdiction; jurisdiction of the English courts to try the claim; comparison of Schedule 4 to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 with Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 44/2001)

Kurtha v Marks [2008] EWHC 336 (QB)
(recovery of lost / stolen art; claim in conversion; application of ss.2 - 4 of the Limitation Act 1980)

Articles

"Virtual Assignments" and Covenants against Alienation – considers the Court of Appeal's decisionClarence House Ltd v Nat West Bank [2009] EWCA Civ 1311

Part 36 Offers - Costs consequences following judgment