Romie Tager QC

Romie is a specialist in commercial and property law. His experience covers a vast range of work in these fields, and the breadth and specialisation in his practice and career give him a commanding position.

He is frequently instructed in cases involving complex issues and commercial sensitivity, often calling for original presentation and the identification of novel solutions.

His practice includes considerable advisory work, and he has extensive experience of international commercial arbitration.

Described by his peers as a "fiercely aggressive" advocate, Romie is "a real ideas man - if you need to bounce ideas off someone in a complex and difficult case, he's your man" - Chambers Guide, 2006

Year of Call: 1970
Queen's Counsel: 1995
Professional memberships: Chancery Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association, Property Bar Association, London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association

Recent and reported cases:

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)

Proforce Recruit Ltd v Rugby Group Ltd (LTL 17.2.06) Court of Appeal
(admission of extrinsic evidence as to interpretation the words "preferred supplier status" in an agreement; words bore the meaning that the parties given them in their communications up to the signing of the agreement)

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd v Olympia Homes Ltd [2005] 25 EG 193 (CS) Mann J.
(Option agreement – whether Claimant’s option constituting equitable interest binding on purchaser – effect of failure to register title by grantor of option)

Luiz Vicente Barros Mattos Junior v MacDaniels Ltd (LTL 24.6.05) Lawrence Collins J.
(amendments allowed to particulars of claim where the amended particulars of claim did not add new causes of action but were based on the same legal and factual basis as the existing claim and the amendments raised matters which were arguable at trial)

MCI Worldcom International Inc. v. Primus Telecommunications Inc. [2004] 1 BCLC 42
(misrepresentation by agent of contracting party)

Medcalf v. Weatherill & Hayes, The Times, 28th June 2002
(Appearing in the House of Lords for the respondent on an appeal against a wasted costs order made by the Court of Appeal against leading and junior counsel; this appeal involved a fundamental challenge to the court's wasted costs jurisdiction, questions of privilege and the impact of the Human Rights Act).

Halley v. Law Society
(Acting at the trial and on the appeal of a claim for monies held in the client account of a solicitor whose practice was intervened, with allegations of money laundering and advance fee fraud).

Twinsectra Limited. v. Yardley & others [2002] 2 WLR 802.
(Representing the claimant in a leading trust, fraud and asset tracing case from the High Court up to the House of Lords).

Official Receiver v. Stern [2002] 1 BCLC 119.
(Appearing for the appellant in the Court of Appeal in a high profile director's disqualification case).

Secretary of State for Transport v. Jenkins (2000) 79 P&C 118.
(Appearing for the landlord in a Court of Appeal case which considered the requirements for a tenant holding as trustee for others for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act).

Fletcher & others v. Royal Automobile Club Limited.
(Acting for the members or former members of the Royal Automobile Club who were excluded from the 'windfall').

Central London Commercial Estates Ltd. v. Kato Kagaku Co. Ltd. [1998] 4 All ER 948.
(Appearing in an important case involving the car park of Bush House and the inter-relation between a squatter's possessory title and the Limitation Acts).

Scotlife Home Loans (No. 2) Ltd. v. Melinek (1997) 78 P&CR 389.
(Appearing in a case raising novel subrogation and tracing issues arising from a series of mortgage frauds).

Society of Lloyd's v. Wilkinson [1997] CLC 1012.
(Appearing in one of the major Lloyd's Names cases, involving issues of set-off and allegations of fraud against Lloyd's).

Society of Lloyd's v. Leighs [1997] CLC 759.
(Acting on behalf of the Lloyd's Names who challenged the establishment of Equitas, and their obligation to re-insure through it)

One Life Limited v. Roy [1996] 2 BCLC 608.
(Representing the defendant shareholders in a claim by a liquidator for the recovery of distributions made from a 'snowball scheme', which was held to be an unlawful lottery)

Banques Bruxelles Lambert SA v. Eagle Star Insurance Co. Ltd. & others [1995] QB 375.
(Appearing in the Commercial Court and in the Court of Appeal in a leading professional negligence case involving the extent of a valuer's liability for negligence, including liability for losses attributable to the fall in the property market)

El Ajou v. Dollar Land Holdings Plc [1994] 2 All ER 685.
(Appearing for the respondent in the leading company law case on agency, and the attribution of knowledge where there is a nominee director)

Email: romie.tager@selbornechambers.co.uk