JEREMY COUSINS Q.C. LL.B. BARRISTER

Called to the Bar: 1977

Took silk: 1999

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Jeremy has specialised in commercial, banking and professional negligence litigation for many years.

Prior to taking silk he was on the Treasury Panel for Provincial Counsel for Civil Cases. Since taking silk he has been nominated by the Attorney General in respect of leading work.

He was one of the four practitioners on the Joint Committee of the Birmingham Bar and Birmingham Law Society which successfully campaigned for the establishment of the Birmingham Mercantile Court. He later chaired the same committee in its campaign to promote the Court in 1994, being the principal draftsman of the jointly published guide "Commercial Litigation in Birmingham".

During the 1990's his work has received favourable comment in The Lawyer. In 1994 he was described as "well regarded", and in 1998 as "widely admired". In 1999, The Lawyer in an article concerning professional negligence litigation, quoted a number of sources which described him as providing a "first class service", "very accurate assessments", and being as "good as anyone at the London Bar".

In the Chambers Guide for 2000, he was recommended as a leader in the field of commercial litigation, and in the 2001 guide he was described as "extremely able" and "undoubtedly one of the leading specialist commercial silks".

Interests

Jeremy's personal interests include wine and food, and travelling in France and Italy.

Reported & representative cases during the last 10 Years include:

• W Photoprint v Forward Trust [1993] 12 TR.L.R. 146, one of the leading case on finance house exclusion clauses. 
• Giffen (Electrical Contractors) Ltd v Drake and Scull Engineering Ltd, 37 Comm. L.R 85, CA, dealing with the incorporation of arbitration clauses.
• State Bank of India v Kaur [1996] 5 Bank L.R. at 158, CA, bank guarantees and the requirements of the Statute of Frauds 1677.
• Brittannia Building Society v Druitts [unreported 1997], solicitors liability for breach of fidudiar duty.
• Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson [2003] UKHL 62, [2003] 3 WLR 1371, passing of title in connection with leased goods.
• AIB Group v Martin & Gold, House of Lords, Times L.R.17th December 2001. In the House of Lords the case concerned the construction of mortgage deeds, but at trual issues of non est factum and alleged misapplication of funds by the bank were also involved. The case in the court of Appeal, also, is reported at 2000 2 All ER (Comm) 686.

 

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