Junior Breakfast Seminar – Setting aside default judgment

Maxwell has a busy, broad chancery practice comprising property, insolvency, trusts and estates and general commercial disputes. With extensive experience gained since his pupillage in Chambers, he appears in the High Court, County Court, and First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) in his own right and alongside senior members in complex cases. During his pupillage, Maxwell was seconded to the London offices of Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, during which he worked on a complex, multi-million-pound arbitration in respect of the financing of various commercial fishing vessels and a landmark appeal brought under the Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016. Maxwell was recently appointed to the Attorney-General’s Panel of Counsel to the Crown. Maxwell, a First-class Law graduate from the University of Nottingham, is also active in legal scholarship and professional committees at Lincoln’s Inn.

Tom has developed a busy commercial chancery practice covering property, commercial, company, insolvency, and private client matters since completing pupillage with Chambers in October 2019. He regularly appears in various courts and tribunals, handling cases independently and being led by senior members. Notably, Tom was admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) in March 2022, and has advised and appeared in company and commercial litigation in that jurisdiction. Tom has completed secondments with law firms in both the UK and BVI. Tom has a first-class degree in ancient history from the University of Bristol and studied for his Graduate Diploma in Law at City University London. He is qualified to accept direct access work.