Venue
Selborne Chambers, 10 Essex Street, Temple, WC2R 3AA, London
Timings
14 May 2024, 8.15am - 9.30pm
Overview
We hosted the fourth installment of our new breakfast seminar series on “The Classic Applications”, aimed specifically at junior lawyers. On 14th May 2024, Rosamund Baker and Eleanor Vickery continued the series by discussing “Relief from sanctions”.
Download the slides here.
The rest of the series on “the Classic Applications” will cover:
- Tuesday 11th June 2024: “CCMCs: getting them right” – Daniel Webb and Chris Burrows
Programme
Rosamund Baker and Eleanor Vickery discussed ‘Relief from sanctions’, looking in particular at:
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- What is a serious or significant breach?
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- What is a good reason for a breach?
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- When should an application be made?
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- What should be included in an application?
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- Will the court grant relief?
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- When should an application be agreed or opposed?
Speakers
Since 2017, Rosamund at Selborne Chambers has excelled in chancery practice, handling property and insolvency cases in the High Court and County Court. She gained expertise in commercial chancery litigation during a secondment with a top international firm, being called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) in 2021. Rosamund served as a Judicial Assistant in the Chancery Division in Trinity Term 2020 and completed a Pegasus Scholar placement at Bell Gully in New Zealand in late 2018. Holding a First in Jurisprudence from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, she was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel to the Crown in 2022.
Eleanor became a junior tenant in October 2023, after completing her pupillage at Selborne. She handles cases spanning Landlord and Tenant, Real Property, Commercial, Insolvency and Company law. She regularly appears in the County Court and in the Insolvency and Companies Court. Recently, she successfully appeared in the Court of Appeal as junior to Mark Warwick KC, in Ahmet v Tatum & CPS [2024] EWCA Civ 255, a case about the interaction of POCA and access to the civil courts to determine property rights. During pupillage, she assisted with a two-week trial in the Chancery Division of the High Court, focusing on directors’ duties, fraudulent transactions, and land registration. Before coming to the Bar, Eleanor earned a First-Class degree in History and German from Trinity College, Oxford. She was awarded the Kennedy Scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn for the Bar Course, and received the No. 5 Chambers Professional Ethics Prize upon completing her Bar Course at the ICCA.