Jeffrey Terry

Practice:

Commercial & Chancery litigation
Insurance
Commercial contracts, including sale & carriage of goods, agency, distributorship agreements, share and assets sales & warranty claims
Construction
Professional negligence in all fields except clinical negligence
Company Law, including minority shareholder disputes and directors’ duties
Partnership
Banking
Wills, Probate and Inheritance claims
Property
Arbitration & Mediation 

Profile:
 Jeffrey has a wide range of experience in the specialist courts nationwide including in the Mercantile, Commercial, and Technology & Construction Courts and the Chancery Division and has appeared in many reported cases over the past 25 years. He also acts as both Arbitrator and Mediator having become a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1996 and a CEDR Accredited Mediator in 1997.

Jeffrey has acted for many major clients in substantial disputes including a number of insurance companies, banks, local and education authorities, police and fire authorities, major national companies such as British Nuclear Fuels and Transco, the National Trust, the Landmark Trust, Manchester Airport, and professional football and rugby clubs in addition to many other corporate and private clients.

Reported Cases:
Ansari v New India Insurance [2008] EWHC 243 (Ch), ChD Manchester (Insurance / distinction between material facts and change of risk clauses)

Marshall v Allotts [2005] PNLR 11, ChD, Leeds (Professional negligence, share sale valuation, pre-action disclosure)

T&N Ltd (In Administration) v Royal & Sun Alliance plc [2003] 2 All ER (Comm) 939 ChD, London (Insurance – Scope of Exclusion of Asbestos Related Claims – Employers Liability Insurance – Third Party Rights Against Insurers)

Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd v Royal Ins (UK) Ltd [2000] 1 All ER (Comm) 266, Commercial Court, London (Insurance – Fidelity Policy – Limitation)

Unchained Growth PLC III v Granby Village (Manchester) Management Co Ltd   [2000] 1 WLR 739, Court of Appeal ( commercial property/fair trading/rent/set off)

AS Screenprint v British Reserve Ins [1999] Lloyds Rep IR 430, Court of Appeal (Insurance – Product Liability – Scope of Insuring Clause – Loss of Profits)

HFI GmbH v McKechnie PLC [1999] 1 CL 63, QBD, Birmingham (Civil Procedure / Unless Orders)

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest and Natural Beauty v Royal National Institute for the Blind, Imperial Cancer Research Fund and National Kidney Research Fund [1999] 5 CL 566, ChD, London (wills/presumption of due execution)

Snapes v Aram, Re Hancock  [1998] 2 FLR 346, Court of Appeal (inheritance, family provision/adult child)

D Gokal & Co (HK) Ltd v Rippleworth Ltd [1998] 1 CLY 370 Mercantile Court, Manchester (bills of exchange/s62 Bills of Exchange Act 1882)

Bennett Properties v H&S Engineering [1998] 2 CLY 3683 (commercial property/tenancy from year to year)

Sheil v St Helens MBC [1997] 1 CLY 3266, ChD, Leeds (commercial property/ intention to demolish or reconstruct/ LTA 1954)

Co-Operative Bank plc v Tipper [1996] 4 All ER  366, ChD, Manchester (guarantees / banking/effect of pencil alteration to guarantee)

Transthene v Royal Insurance [1996] LRLR 32 Mercantile Court, Manchester (insurance / fraud)

Bank of Baroda v Reyarel [1995] 2 FLR 376, Court of Appeal (banking/undue influence)

Jones v Roberts [1995] 2 FLR 422, ChD, Liverpool (manslaughter due to diminished responsibility of beneficiary/ application of forfeiture rule)

Ackerman v Protim Services [1988] 2 EGLR 259, Court of Appeal (guarantees/construction).

Carlton v Halestrap [1988] 4 BCC 538, ChD, London (company/cautions/freezing orders)

Re Windward Islands [1983] BCLC 293, Companies Court, London  (company/meetings)

 

Lal v Nakum (1982) HLR 1, Court of Appeal (landlord & tenant/housing/Rent Acts).

Lectures And Articles:

Jeffrey has written a number of articles, contributed a chapter of a book  on UK Arbitration published in the USA by the American Bar Association on the theme “Arbitration in the 21st Century”, and presented papers on a range of topics in England, the USA and Canada.

Arbitration and ADR

“The English Arbitration Act 1996”,  (Paper for the New York Bar and American Bar Associations Joint Meeting on “Arbitration: Preparing for the 21st Century”, New York, 1998);

Arbitration Act 1996 and ADR (Law Society - NW Commerce and Industry Group, 1998);

“ADR” (Institute of Directors, 1998)

“Section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996” (8 King Street Seminar, 2002)

Commercial

“Lis Pendens Provisions of the Brussels Convention and Anti-Suit Injunctions” [1998] 11 Amicus Curiae 21;

“Service Out of the Jurisdiction Under the Brussels Convention” (Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association Paper, 1998);

“The Economic Resolution of Commercial Disputes” (Institute of Directors, 1998)

Professional Negligence

Loss of Chance in Professional Negligence Cases (Law Society, 2006)

Company

“Directors’ Duties” (Law Society Commerce & Industry Group, 2001)

“Global Exposures - Are Directors and Officers Covered ?” (American Bar Association Paper, Toronto, 1998);

“Shares Buy-Back & Financial Assistance” (Manchester University Centre for Law and Business Paper, 1998);

Insider Dealing (Seminar for Stockbrokers, 1997).

Property

Landlord’s Intention To Demolish and Reconstruct Under the 1954 Act [1998] 1 RRLR 13;

Party Walls Act 1996 (Manchester University Centre for Law and Business Paper, 1997)

Succession / Probate / Inheritance

Family Provision, Claims By Adult Children [1998] 1 Trusts & Estates Law Journal 10; 

The Law After Snapes v Aram [1998] 12 Amicus Curiae 28

Testamentary Capacity: What is Required from the Expert Witness, Seminar for Forensic Psychiatrists, 2006.

Recommendations:
 Jeffrey has been repeatedly recommended as a leader at the Bar for both Chancery and Commercial work many years. Recent recommendations include:

Chambers (2008) : “Very thorough and extremely able ….has absolutely no qualms about coming up against silks… possesses vast experience of commercial cases involving insurance, banking and company issues. He is also an accredited mediator”

Legal 500 (2007) : “a quality litigator, and latterly mediator”

Chambers (2007) : “divides his time between traditional chancery and commercial matters.. focused on company insolvency and partnership disputes …has a particular focus on insurance disputes…..a senior practitioner with a strong local reputation”

Memberships:  

REGIONAL

Founder Member of the Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association (nccba).

Member of the Northern Chancery Bar Association;

Member of the Association of Northern Mediators

Member of North West Mediation Solutions

NATIONAL

Mediator Member of CEDR (Centre for Dispute Resolution);

Member of the Bar European Group;

Member of  COMBAR

Member of the Professional Negligence Bar Association.

Career & Education:

Universities:

 

King’s College London  :  LLB (Hons) 
City University, London:  MA (Business Law), with Distinction

Professional Qualifications:

 

 

 

Called to the Bar :  Lincoln’s Inn, 1976
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 1996
Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, 1997 
CEDR Accredited Mediator, 1997  

Sir Thomas More Bursar, Lincoln’s Inn (1975) 

Distinctions & Awards:

 

 

 

 

 

Master’s Degree, Distinction in Business Law (1981)
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, President’s (Lord Mustill’s) Prize for Award Writing (1996) 

Community Lawyer, National Association of Citizens’ Advice Bureau 1976 - 1977
Private Practice at the Bar, 1 Garden Court, Temple, London 1978 - 1988; 8 King Street

Post Qualification:    

Chambers, Manchester and Lamb Chambers, London 1989 – 2008; Kings Chambers
Work History:      Manchester and Lamb Chambers, London 2008 -

 

Jeffrey Terry
  

Year of Call: 1976

Specialises In:
Chancery & Commercial and Mediation

Clerked by:
 Colin Griffin

  

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