DUNCAN HENDERSON

CONTACT

13-14 Old Square

Reception at 14 Old Square
Lincoln’s Inn
London
WC2A 3UE
DX 52 London - Chancery Lane
T: +44 (0)20 7831 4445
F: +44 (0)20 7841 5825
E: clerks@13oldsquare.com

We are open between 8.30am
and 6.30pm Monday to Friday.

Outside of office hours please
call Justin Brown, Senior Clerk
on 0777 578 1995.

Year of Call: 2003
Education: BA Hons (Oxon)
Email: duncanhenderson@13oldsquare.com

Areas of practice
Duncan has a broad practice embracing all aspects of chancery and commercial dispute resolution and contentious and non-contentious advisory work. He has a particular interest in commercial litigation, company law, corporate and personal insolvency.

Duncan also has experience of public and administrative law.

Appointments

• During Spring Term 2005, Duncan sat as a judicial assistant to Lord Justice Mummery in the Court of Appeal.

• Duncan is currently studying a part-time Masters in Law at the London School of Economics, specialising in insolvency, corporate finance and the law of securities.

Reported Cases and Recent work

Duncan has recently been involved in drafting, advisory work and advocacy in banking, consumer credit and general commercial matters.

Work in the Cayman Islands: Admitted to the Bar of the Cayman Islands (2006). Advised on: various aspects of the creation and structuring of limited partnerships for the purpose of private equity funds; a major fraud and constructive trusts claim brought by an overseas regulator against trust companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands; and implementation of letters of request for testimony to be given and documentation to be produced. Appeared for guardians in relation to an application for recognition of foreign law guardianship powers over real property in the Cayman Islands

• Maple Leaf Macro Volatility Master Fund and Another v Rouvroy and Another [2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 475: Claim for breach and claim for deceit -  Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 - jurisdiction - international securities investment  - Scope of Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 —Scope of Consumer Credit Act 1974, sections 140A and 140B  - Financial Services and Markets Act 2000  - Conduct of Business Rules.

• Goldemberg v Rotmistrovsky [2007] CILR n8 - guardianship - conflict of laws - powers of a foreign guardian over ward's immoveable property in the Cayman Islands

Publications

• 'Problems in the Law of Property after Spectrum Plus' [2006] ICCLR 30

• 'Consumer Credit Reform and Personal Insolvency' (2006) 22(2) Insolvency Law & Practice 62
  

Memberships
Member, Chancery Bar Association
Member, Commercial Bar Association