Andrew Grantham

Practice:

Agency (including commercial agency) and distribution agreements.
Banking claims.
Claims arising out of business and share sales,
Civil claims arising out of fraud,
Commercial arbitration.
Company disputes (including shareholder disputes and directors' duties).
Conflict of laws.
Construction and engineering disputes,
Guarantees and indemnities.
Insurance and reinsurance claims.
Professional negligence (of accountants, solicitors, stockbrokers and surveyors).
Sale and carriage of goods (including international trade and retention of title).

Profile:

Andrew is an experienced practitioner in commercial and corporate dispute resolution with a particular emphasis on international disputes and claims for injunctive relief.  He is an editor of a well-known practitioner text on interim remedies.

Significant Work Includes:

Advising and acting on behalf of an agent selling electricity and gas on behalf of Enron against the administrators of the company.  The claim was initially valued at over £40,000,000.

Advising and acting on behalf of claim by employers for injunctive relief against former employees who had set up a rival business producing bespoke computer software: potential losses were in excess of £10,000,000.

Significant Reported Cases:

Chabba v Turbogame Ltd (2001) 82 P&CR DG24, (CA) (extension of period for service of claim form in respect of a claim for a new tenancy under section 24 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954)

Millers Specialist Joinery v Nobles Construction [2001] CILL 1664

George Hunt Cranes Ltd vs. Scottish Boiler & General Insurance Co Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 1964 (Conditions precedent in a contract of insurance)

Latham Construction v Cross [1999/2000] CILL 1568

Partington v Turners Bakery [1998] 1WLR 1354 (leading case on application of former CCR Ord 9 r 10)

Recommendations:

Legal 500 2008
Andrew Grantham is popular and busy.

Chambers UK 2008
Andrew remains one of the first ports of call for clients on serious cases.

Memberships:

Northern Chancery Bar Association
Chancery Bar Association
Secretary of Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
Northern and North Eastern Circuit

 

 

Career and Education:

University:

Oxford (St Catherine's College)

Degree: Law MA (Oxon) BCL
Other Qualifications: F.C.I.Arb.
Year of Call: 1991 (Middle Temple)
Joined Chambers: 2001

Other career details:

Formerly a lecturer in law at Wadham College, Oxford and Kings College, London

 

Andrew Grantham

Year of Call:  1991

Specialises In:
Chancery and Commercial

Clerked by:
 Colin Griffin

 

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