Brick Court Chambers

Ben Woolgar

Ben Woolgar

YEAR OF CALL: 2014
CLERK: Paul Dennison

"Absolutely one of the Stars of the Bar, and will rise to the very top of the profession at this rate."
Legal 500, 2024

News

04/12/23

BVI Court rejects €7.5m unfair prejudice claim following trial

20/09/23

What’s the ‘matter’?  UK Supreme Court’s first ruling on s.9 stays under the Arbitration Act

17/08/23

Ben Woolgar appointed to Government of the Virgin Islands Legal Services Panel

07/07/23

Privy Council grants disclosure order against Mauritian bank

11/05/23

Commercial Court success in breach of warranty claim

13/02/23

Brick Court tops The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases over 10 years

16/01/23

25 members of Brick Court appear in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2023

10/11/22

Court of Appeal clarifies ambit of litigation privilege

31/10/22

Summary judgment on €250m bond dispute

23/05/22

Commercial Court refuses Norwich Pharmacal application in €250m bond dispute

13/05/22

Clarification as to the scope of litigation privilege

31/03/22

War in Ukraine makes fair trial impossible in Privatbank dispute

10/01/22

31 members of Brick Court appear in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2022

28/07/21

Court of Appeal dismisses unjust enrichment appeal in Ukrainian oligarch case

11/03/21

Court of Appeal rules Mozambique bribery claims must proceed by way of arbitration

24/02/21

Chancery Division rejects application to cross-examine on Bitcoin asset in $1.9bn claim

01/02/21

22 members of Brick Court appear in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2021

21/09/20

Commercial Court grants post-judgment freezing order in oligarch case

17/07/20

Judgment handed down in the battle of the Ukrainian oligarchs

24/04/20

Freezing by Skype

21/02/19

JPMorgan subject to the banker’s Quincecare duty of care in $875m corruption case

16/01/19

33 members of Brick Court appear in 12 of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2019

04/12/18

Jurisdiction declined and freezing orders set aside in $2.6 billion Ukraine banking dispute

19/11/18

Halliburton applied: Apparent bias challenge to leading reinsurance arbitrator rejected

13/11/18

CJEU sets aside General Court judgment on inadmissibility of Portuguese bondholder claims concerning the bailout of Banco Espirito Santo

02/03/18

Court of Appeal gives judgment in bank “test case” on swaps mis-selling, LIBOR and GRG

06/02/18

20 members of Brick Court appear in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2018

21/12/17

High-profile claims against Chris and Nick Candy dismissed by Chancery Division

19/10/17

Kensington & Chelsea TMO AGM adjourned in “first battle win” for Grenfell victims

12/09/17

Brick Court team running for Justice

23/01/17

Brick Court scores the highest number of appearances in The Lawyer Top 20 Cases of 2017

21/12/16

Judgment for Bank in RBS LIBOR and GRG Test Case

20/01/16

Brick Court scores the highest number of appearances in The Lawyer Top 20 Cases of 2016

22/12/15

Cornwall Council entitled to terminate high-profile £160m IT outsourcing contract

16/12/15

Supreme Court defines limits of merger control

19/10/15

Brick Court maintains Public and Administrative Law ranking in 2015 Legal 500

07/07/15

Two outstanding new tenants for Brick Court Chambers

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