Junior Breakfast Seminar – Summary judgment

26 March 2024, 8.15am - 9.30am
Junior Breakfast Seminar – Summary judgment

Venue

Selborne Chambers, 10 Essex Street, Temple, WC2R 3AA, London

Timings

26 March 2024, 8.15am - 9.30am

Overview

We hosted the second installment of our new breakfast seminar series on “The Classic Applications”, aimed specifically at junior lawyers. On 26th March 2024, Chris Burrows and Calum Stratton continued the series by discussing “Summary Judgments”.

Download the slides here.

The rest of the series on “the Classic Applications” will cover:

  • Tuesday 16th April 2024: Setting aside default judgment (Maxwell Myers and Tom Frazer).
  • Tuesday 14th May 2024: Relief from sanctions (Rosamund Baker and Eleanor Vickery).
  • Tuesday 4th June 2024: Costs and Case Management conference (Chris Burrows).

Programme

Chris Burrows and Calum Stratton discussed “Summary Judgments”, looking in particular at:

  • “No real prospect” – What it actually means
  • Whether there might be a compelling reason
  • Evidence and how to use it (making and defending the application)

Speakers

Chris Burrows
Call: 2016

Chris primarily accepts instructions in Chambers’ core areas of property and private client work. He has a busy drafting and advisory practice and appears regularly in the County Court, as well as increasingly in the High Court and First Tier Tribunal. A consummate team player, Chris has appellate and first instance experience as junior counsel. He is currently instructed on a long-running public inquiry.

Before coming to the Bar, Chris spent 12 years as an officer in the British Army.  He is focused, responsive and has an eye for commercial and pragmatic solutions. 

Chris speaks Russian, Farsi and German and particularly welcomes instructions with an international flavour. Chris is also qualified to accept instructions under the Direct Public Access Scheme. 

Calum Stratton
Call: 2021

Calum has a busy commercial chancery practice that spans the full spectrum of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular specialism in Property, including both real property and landlord and tenant, and Commercial work.

Calum regularly appears in both the County Court and High Court as sole and junior counsel. Calum has recently been led by Romie Tager KC and Stuart Hornett representing a nation-state in a dispute concerning its international fishing rights.

Since 2023, Calum has been a member of the Attorney General’s Junior Junior Panel.

Prior to joining Chambers, Calum taught contract law on the LLB at the University of Leeds.

Calum was awarded the Harmsworth Scholarship and the Blackstone Entrance Exhibition Award by Middle Temple.