Senior Practice Manager
Practice Manager
Assistant Practice Manager
Owen Curry specialises in commercial and traditional chancery litigation.
He has regularly appeared in trials and interlocutory matters in the High Court and County Court. His trial experience includes:
He has also been involved in off-shore litigation in both the Caribbean and the Channel Islands and has spent time assisting law firms in London and the Channel Islands. As a result he has gained a broad experience of contentious probate trust and estate disputes and well as document heavy commercial litigation and commercial litigation involving the application of traditional equitable principles in modern contexts.
His particular experience can be seen by clicking on the areas of practice below.
Owen has experience of financial services law and regulation. He has recently spent several months assisting a bank with claims for consequential loss arising out of mis-sold interest rate hedging products. His other experience includes:
Many of Owen’s cases involve elements of fraud and require steps to be taken to trace and recover assets. He is currently involved in high value fraud claim concerning funds allegedly misappropriated over ten years ago.
Owen has experience of commercial work both in court and on paper. He experience includes:
Owen has experience of company disputes and non-contentious advice of all kinds. He appeared for the petitioner in Skala v Via Servis [2014] EWHC 3069 (Ch), the six day trial of an unfair prejudice petition in the Chancery Division involving cross-examination over a video link and through an interpreter. He has continued to advise regularly on shareholder disputes of all sorts. His other experience includes:
Owen has appeared the Court of Protection since joining chambers. He has experience of contested property and affairs deputyship applications, applications to revoke powers of attorney, and remove attorneys. These applications often involve further disputes about the validity of lifetime dispositions and appointments.
He has also appeared in health and welfare cases.
Owen frequently appears in insolvency matters before judges and ICC judges. His experience includes:
Owen appears in and advises on real property disputes. This includes commercial and residential leasehold litigation. He also has experience of advising on technical and historic real property questions. Owen’s experience includes:
Application regarding charging orders and orders for sale.
Owen regularly advises on and appears in disputes involving trusts, the administration of estates and probate claims, and on questions of the construction of wills and trusts. He also has experience of applications made under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
He also advises and acts for charities in the context of contentious probate disputes, construction questions, schemes and technical charity law questions
He has advised and acted in application under the Variation of Trusts Act 1958
His recent experience includes: