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MAITLAND IS A LEADING SET OF BARRISTERS’ CHAMBERS IN LONDON. WE PROVIDE ADVOCACY AND LEGAL ADVICE ACROSS A HUGE RANGE OF BUSINESS DISPUTES IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND MANY INTERNATIONAL JURISDICTIONS.

Our core practice areas are Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, Civil Fraud, Company & Partnership, Insolvency & Asset Recovery and Offshore & Trusts, with a number of leading specialists in related fields.

We excel in the most challenging commercial disputes at the Bar. We have been consistently ranked as a leading set in all our areas of practice and we are particularly recognised for our cross-disciplinary expertise.

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Maxim Cardew represented successful applicants in Mohammed v Patel [2024]

Maxim Cardew represented the successful applicants in Mohammed v Patel [2024] EWHC 2581 (Ch) in their application for a declaration and injunctive relief calling for fresh elections to the Executive Committee of a Charity operating a substantial mosque. The case concerned the correct construction of the constitution of the Charity (an unincorporated association), the lawfulness of a previous election that had been held, and the appropriate test for granting declaratory and injunctive relief in such circumstances. The decision also considered whether and in what circumstances the constitution of a charitable unincorporated association could be waived or varied....

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Maitland ranked in all its core areas, together with 90 individual rankings in Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2025

We are delighted to be ranked once again in The Legal 500 across all our core areas of practice. Thank you very much to our clients and colleagues across the profession for their feedback and for the interesting and challenging instructions sent our way. Our clerking team has also rightly received excellent comments from the market. The Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2025 is now available to view online. You can view the rankings for Chambers and its barristers here....

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Three new tenants join Maitland

We are delighted to welcome Robert Watt, Olivia Horn and Promit Chatterjee as members of Maitland, following the successful completion of their pupillages....

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Darragh Connell and Eoin MacLachlan successful in landmark High Court crypto judgment that establishes USD Tether as property under English law

Judgment has been handed down in D’Aloia v Persons Unknown, Bitkub & Ors [2024] EWHC 2342 (Ch). Darragh Connell and Eoin MacLachlan, instructed by Nicola McKinney of Quillon Law, acted on behalf of a crypto exchange, Bitkub Online Co. Ltd (“Bitkub”), in successfully defending a claim brought by Fabrizio D’Aloia. Following a 5-day trial, the High Court held that the Claimant had failed to establish that any of his misappropriated USD Tether had reached the relevant wallet controlled by Bitkub, the sixth Defendant in the proceedings. The entirety of the Claimant's claims against Bitkub in unjust enrichment and as an alleged constructive trustee were dismissed. The judgment considers, for the first time following a contested trial, the status of USD Tether under English law. The High Court concluded that USD Tether did constitute property for the purposes of English law as follows: ...

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Freezing Injunctions - The appropriate order for costs following a contested return date hearing

What is the appropriate order for costs following the continuation of a freezing injunction after a contested return date hearing? Is it the usual order for interim injunctions of costs reserved, or do costs follow the event because freezing injunctions are materially different to normal interim injunctions? These are questions which have caused debate on the authorities. ...

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Maitland is delighted to participate in the COMBAR mentoring scheme

Having helped lead the way at the Commercial and Chancery Bar over the last 5 years with its own award-nominated mentoring scheme for underrepresented groups, Maitland is delighted now to join the wider scheme run by Combar - The Commercial Bar Association. ...

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