Juliette Levy

Juliette has a thriving commercial litigation practice which includes working with the mainstays of commercial chancery litigation practice - equitable doctrines and remedial trusts. She is renowned for her command and experience of telecommunications law and regulation. Juliette has been repeatedly retained in numerous telecoms issues, including both Ofcom and ICSTIS telecommunications regulatory and licensing matters, network-operator / service provider / reseller interconnection and contractual disputes, and telecommunications fraud. Her client base covers all aspects of the telecoms sector, including network operators, service providers, resellers and content providers.

Juliette recently acted for a service provider in the only IAB case to consider ICSTIS’ powers under the Communications Act 2003.

In the past Juliette has acted for a national airline and for Premier Telesports Ltd in its action against The Racecourse Association and Attheraces plc.

Year of Call: 1992

Professional memberships: Society for Computers & Law

Recent and reported cases:

Dadourian Group International & Others v Paul Simms & 15 others [2007] EWHC 2634 (Ch)
(Effect of injunctive relief on third parties, whether a third party could be in contempt of court by seeking to deploy material, the use of which was prohibited by an order in separate proceedings against other parties, and consideration of Attorney General v Punch [2003] 1 AC 1046)

Halpern v Halpern (No.2) [2006] 2 All ER 1139
(restitution and rescission, a party cannot rescind a contract procured by duress in circumstances where he could not offer the other party substantial restitutio in integrum)

Halpern v Halpern [2006] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 83
(conflict of laws, application of Shamil Bank of Bahrain EC v Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Ors [2004] 1 WLR 1784 to Jewish law and to a compromise agreement embodied in an arbitration award, Part 24, fraudulent misrepresentation, mistake, frustration, uncertainty, fulfilment of condition precedent and duress)

PRS v ICSTIS (unreported) IAB 5 July 2005 (successful appeal against unprecedented fines imposed by ICSTIS against a service provider and first guidance on ICTSIS powers under the Communications Act 2003)

Mancini v Telecommunications UK Ltd [2003] (improper/fraudulent use of numbers, strike out of claim and failure to comply with court orders)

Re Don Basil Williams [2003] (consideration of sanction of office-holders’ compromise under sections 167(1) and 314 of the Insolvency Act 1986)

Re Allen, Re A Debtor (no.367 of 1992) [1998] BPIR (section 264 of the Insolvency Act 1986-whether one petition can be presented by two separate creditors in respect of two separate debts)

Publications

Halpern v Halpern - whether Jewish law can be the governing law of a contract and the doctrines of incorporation and restitutio in integrum - New Law Journal 9.6.06

Email: juliette.levy@selbornechambers.co.uk