Call:1986
Qualifications: LLB (Hons)
Practice Teams
Civil & Commercial
Property
Christopher SprattPrint CV
Profile
A company law and commercial litigation specialist with over twenty years advocacy experience (following two years spent with a City law firm) at all levels up to Privy Council.
Christopher's current caseload include being instructed as Leading Counsel for the claimant on a fifteen-day trial in the Chancery Division and being instructed to lead in a High Court libel case on behalf of the defendant. He has also been instructed recently on high-value property, insolvency, employment, personal injury and professional negligence claims.
His recent company law and commercial litigation experience have included cases involving the following topics:
- breach of confidentiality
- database rights
- derivative actions
- directors duties
- dividends
- economic torts
- formation and construction of a contract
- freezing orders
- joint venture
- liquidator's powers
- loss of commercial opportunities
- option agreements
- partnership
- passing off
- recission
- restrictive covenants
- shareholders agreements
- specific performance
- trusts
- undue influence
- ultra vires
His reported cases include Layland v Fairview New Homes [2002] EWHC 1350 (Ch), [2003] BR 20, [2002] CILL 1898 - challenging the adverse conclusion of a single joint expert; Currencies Direct v Ellis[2002 EWCA 779] - ss330, 341 and 342 Companies Act 1985, that payments made to a company director had been remuneration rather than a loan; Younas v Chief Constable of Hampshire [2002] EWCA Civ 1936 - that the Employment Appeal Tribunal should give reasons for rejecting any grounds of appeal whether to grant an appellant permission to proceed to a full hearing and should expressly state when an appeal was to proceed on all the grounds raised.
Professional Associations
Professional Negligence Bar Association
Property Bar Association