Year of Call: 1979
Year of Silk: 1996

Profile

Christopher joined 13 Old Square as a pupil in 1979 and practised from there from 1980. He was appointed QC in 1996. His practice now encompasses not just the traditional Chancery fields of property, landlord and tenant, company and insolvency law, but also commercial disputes, banking, financial services and professional negligence. His recent important cases have been concerned with commercial fraud and asset recovery, breach of trust and directors’ duties, the rights of minority shareholders, solicitors’ and bankers’ negligence, proprietary estoppel, restrictive covenants, repairing user and alienation covenants and break clauses in leases and the proper construction of various kinds of commercial documents. His strong reputation is evidenced by his recommendation in The Legal 500 for property litigation, company, professional negligence, fraud (civil) and media and entertainment, in Chambers UK Directory for commercial Chancery, real estate litigation and professional negligence and Chambers Global for commercial litigation.

Recent cases include Ashworth Frazer Ltd v Gloucester City Council (2001) in the House of Lords (tenant's covenants against alienation without consent); Half Moon Bay v Crown Eagle Hotels (2002) in the Privy Council (restrictive covenants); Margulies v Klein (2002) (civil fraud); McGowan v Chadwick 2002 (receivers' duties); Chris Evans v Virgin Radio 2003 (breach of contract and effect on share options); Westminster CC v Shirley Porter (2004) (sham trusts).

Judicial Appointments: Recorder

Notable Cases
Bellway Homes Ltd v Beazer Homes Ltd (2010)
Akzo Nobel UK LTD v Arista Tubes LTD (2010)
Chaitan Choudhary & Ors v Damodar Prasad Bhatter & Ors (2009)
Mount Anvil Group LTD v Volans Management LTD (2009)
Choudhary v Bhattar (2009)
Peekay Intermark Ltd & Anor v Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [2006]
Shirayama Shokusan Co Ltd & Ors v Danovo Ltd (2005)
Christopher Evans v (1) SMG Television Ltd (2) Scottish Media Group (Jersey) Ltd (3) SMG plc (4) Kentfarm Ltd (5) Ginger Radio Ltd (6) Virgin Radio Ltd (7) Ginger Media Group Ltd & Ginger Television Productions Ltd (Part 20 Claimant) (2003)
Ashworth Frazer Ltd v Gloucester City Council
(1) Gencor ACP Ltd (2) Gencor ACP Holdings Ltd (3) ACP Technical Services (Australia) Pty Ltd v Glenn Bryan Dalby & Ors (2000)

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Qualifications
MA (Oxon)

Chambers Global
Commercial (Lit.): Chancery Courts.

Chambers UK 2008
Chancery (Commercial): "an affable and very able guy who is quietly effective and whose opinion is always considered"; Chancery (Traditional): "is extremely bright and a real pleasure to work with".

UK Legal 500
Company, Professional negligence, Media and entertainment, Fraud:civil, and Property litigation: comes highly recommended: 'calm, measured and very good with clients'

Chambers UK
Chancery (Commercial): “an intellectual giant with wonderful judgement.” Professional Negligence: "Quietly determined." Real Estate (Litigation): “phenomenal,” a “considered performer,” “delivers magnificent speeches” and “can absorb information quickly.”

Legal Experts 2008
Commercial litigation, Company, Professional negligence, Property