Eleanor Temple

Practice:

Insolvency
Chancery and commercial litigation
Banking
Company law

Profile:

Eleanor has an exclusively chancery and commercial practice with a particular emphasis on insolvency and corporate restructuring, directors' disqualification, chancery and commercial litigation, banking and finance litigation (including recoveries, guarantees and investments), breach of warranty claims, company law (particularly shareholder and partnership disputes, breach of trust and fiduciary duty claims), disciplinary cases for insolvency practitioners, commercial equine law and related professional negligence.

Eleanor regularly contributes to legal and professional seminars.

Significant Reported Cases:

Equine Law: Taking the reins (2008) LS Gaz, 7 Aug, 14

The Oracle (North West) Limited v Pinnacle Services (UK) Limited (Patten J) [2008] All ER (D) 77 (Sep), [2008]
EWHC 1920 – successfully acted on behalf of the creditors in a contested application to appoint Administrators between the directors of the company and the majority of the unsecured creditors

Steven Williams (Trustee in Bankruptcy of Mr White) v White (2007) WL 2573816 – successfully acted on behalf of the recipient on a transaction at an undervalue claim pursuant to Sections 339 and 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986

In the matter of Hawkes Hill Publishing Company Limited (in Liquidation) Ward v Perks and Drinkwater (Lewison J) [2007] B.C.C. 937; [2007] B.P.I.R. 1305, (2007) 151 Sol Jo LB 743, [2007] ALL ER (D) 422 – successfully acted against the Liquidator on preference and wrongful trading claims.

Whitehouse -v- Wilson (Liquidator of Vol-Mec Ltd) & Munro , Court of Appeal [2007] B.C.C. 595; [2007] B.P.I.R. 230; (2007) 104(1) L.S.G. 11, [2006] All ER (D) 93 – successfully acted on behalf of the Liquidator on an appeal against his decision to compromise claims against an allegedly misfeasant director

Barlow -v- Bowden [2006] 4 HLR 10 – successfully acted on behalf of a supplier of sand in a dispute involving the construction of an equestrian arena

St. George Smith -v- Lingard [2006] 4 HLR 3 – successfully acted in a veterinary negligence claim on behalf of the purchaser of a horse with laminitis

Nolan -v- Devenport [2006] All ER (D) 83, Civil Procedure Rules Volume 1 - application to strike out pursuant to Rule 3.1(2)(m) of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

National Westminster Bank plc -v- Patel [2004] All ER (D) 429 – mortgage possession action involving a failed voluntary arrangement and the setting aside of a legal charge

Recommendations:

Chambers UK 2009 - recommended in insolvency and restructuring and commercial dispute resolution

The "highly intelligent" Eleanor Temple takes on an impressive and eclectic mix of chancery, commercial and insolvency work. With her "natural commercial instinct and excellent manner," she recently appeared in Wood v Wood, Re Country Style Foods Limited, which involved a Section 459 petition and shareholder dispute. She also advised...on the highly publicised ‘knicker-burning case’. Sources tout her as a future star of the Bar.

Eleanor Temple is highly rated for her commitment to insolvency...she is developing an excellent reputation as "congenial yet assertive." Her caseload encompasses insolvency and corporate restructuring, including directors' disqualification and shareholder disputes."

Chambers UK 2008 – recommended in insolvency and corporate recovery

Eleanor Temple is a barrister “growing in popularity” and is “one to watch.”

“She applies her weighty experience of the law to her courtroom battles, where she is noted as a strong performer.”

Legal 500 2008 - Reccommended in commercial litigation

Also impressing solicitors at an early stage, Kings Chambers' Eleanor Temple is "exceptionally good in and out of court "

Featured in The Times 'Future stars of the regions' report – http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2818001.ece

"Eleanor Temple's combination of an easygoing personality with a steely professional determination and sharp intellect has seen the 30-year old chancery specialist nicknamed the "smiling assassin" by fellow barristers on the northern circuit."

Legal 500 2007 - recommended in insolvency

Eleanor Temple is advancing quickly; she appeared for the liquidator in the Court of Appeal case of Whitehouse v Wilson (Liquidator of Vol-Mec Ltd) & Munro in 2006.

Chambers Guide 2007 - recommended in insolvency and corporate recovery

“certainly busts a gut in cases”

“In court, she is bullish but out of court, clients find her user friendly and approachable”

Legal 500 2006 - recommended in insolvency

“Eleanor Temple has made a tremendous start in insolvency from a 2000 call”

Memberships:

R3 North West Committee Member
R3 (Full member)
R3 YPN (Yorkshire) Technical Officer
R3 (North West) Women in Business Recovery Chairwoman
Insolvency Lawyers' Association (Full member)
Chancery Bar Association
Northern Chancery Bar Association
Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
EQLA
North Eastern Circuit

Panels:
Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel)

Career & Education:
University: Degree: Prizes: Year of Call: Joined Chambers:	St Johns College, University of Durham 1^st Class (Hons) Law Reginald Prize, Gerrard Rawnsley Prize, R.K. Vanham Prize, Outstanding Achievement Prize (Overall results) Inner Temple Major Scholarship Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholarship 2000 (Inner Temple) 2000

Career & Education:

University:

Degree:

Prizes:

Year of Call:

Joined Chambers:

St Johns College, University of Durham

1^st Class (Hons) Law

Reginald Prize, Gerrard Rawnsley Prize, R.K. Vanham Prize, Outstanding Achievement

Prize (Overall results)
Inner Temple Major Scholarship
Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholarship

2000 (Inner Temple)

2000