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Year of Call: 2006

E: daisybrown@enterprisechambers.com

T: 0117 4507920

Clerk: Justin Emmett

Practice Areas

  • Insolvency & Restructuring
  • Company
  • Company Directors Disqualification
  • Property
  • Mediation and ADR

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Daisy is a commercial chancery litigator specialising in chambers core areas of insolvency, property and commercial, Daisy has also built up a strong practice in company and directors’ disqualification matters.

Daisy offers comprehensive legal support encompassing drafting, advisory services and representation in various courts, Daisy has been recommended as a leading junior in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 where she has garnered praise on her versatility, user-friendly manner and accomplished advocacy skills.

In 2022, Daisy qualified as a trained mediator with The Society of Mediators.

 

  • Bright and quick to identify the key issues in a case

    Chambers & Partners 2022

  • She can truly battle her cases

    Legal 500 2022

  • Daisy is without exception the brightest junior counsel I have worked with in my career to date. She is incredibly versatile, an accomplished advocate and demonstrates a rare level of commitment to the matters she works on. Her tenacity is palpable to clients.

    Legal 500 2021

  • Very quick to grasp the issues, a fine grasp of detail, and is brilliant with people from all walks of life

    Legal 500 2021

  • She is very good and proactive, always going the extra mile. Her legal analysis is spot-on. She is top-notch and creative... She is a specialist with practical knowledge, a wealth of experience and an ability to translate complicated legal principles into language that the lay client can understand.

    Chambers & Partners 2019

  • She is very quick in terms of providing relevant facts and strategic advice. She is very user-friendly and a go-to for the interesting matters.

    Chambers and Partners 2018

  • Focuses significantly on insolvency as part of her broader chancery practice, which extends to commercial litigation and advisory work. She is an experienced junior who has appeared in court at all levels, including the Court of Appeal.

    Chambers and Partners 2017

  • She's very approachable, easy to work with and is very commercial in her approach.

    Chambers and Partners 2016

  • She is admired by peers and solicitors alike.

    Chambers UK 2013

  • Daisy Brown is admired for her considerable expertise in both corporate and personal insolvency matters.

    Chambers UK 2012

  • Up and Coming: Daisy Brown continues to impress market commentators with her "extraordinary degree of knowledge and her fantastic success rate."
    One solicitor said of her: "She just never seems to lose cases!"

    Chambers UK 2011

  • Daisy Brown is one of the more junior tenants at Guildhall Chambers.
    She has impressed a number of sources with her "extensive degree of insolvency law knowledge" and is seen as being "extremely bright, direct, accurate and proactive."

    Chambers UK 2010

Practice Areas

Insolvency & Restructuring

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Daisy’s practice includes all aspects of company and individual insolvency. Her experience ranges from applications to set aside statutory demands, bankruptcy petitions, administration applications, clawback proceedings (misfeasance, TUV, preferences, s.423 IA 1986), unlawful dividends and distributions, CVA/IVA voting appeals and partnership liquidations. She has particular experience in personal insolvencies involving issues concerning ancillary relief.

Recent experience includes:

  • Advising and representing applicant in an application to challenge the decision of a liquidator
  • Representing successful respondent in a contested administration application brought by a 50% shareholder of an online clothing company with a turnover of over £6m
  • Advising in respect of a dispute over the extent of assets within a partnership liquidation
  • Representing successful applicant in an application to remove an office holder
  • Successfully representing office holder in three-day trial concerning beneficial interests in assets held by the bankrupt
  • Successfully representing a company director defending a claim by the liquidator to recover alleged unlawful dividends

Company

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Daisy is regularly instructed in cases concerning director’s duties, shareholder disputes, unfair prejudice petitions and just and equitable winding up petitions.

Company Directors Disqualification

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Daisy had regularly appeared for the Secretary of State when appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown Regional B Panel, advising on and presenting disqualification cases in court. She also acts for defendant directors.

Property

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Daisy’s property practice includes regular instructions in the High Court, County Court and First Tier Tribunal in relation to disputes about beneficial interests, proprietary estoppel, landlord and tenant, boundary disputes, easements and rights of way. She has considerable experience in agricultural matters including cases concerning equine law.

Recent experience includes:

  • Advising in relation to a dispute concerning occupation rights in a high value rural property
  • Successfully resisting an application for an injunction in respect of occupation of stables by horses
  • Advising in relation to business tenancy renewals
  • Successfully representing the defendant at a trial concerning trespass to land
  • Successfully representing the respondent in the High Court and Court of Appeal in respect of a claim relating to trespass to goods
  • Advising and drafting pleadings in relation to disputed rights of way in respect of commercial premises
  • Successfully representing the defendant in a trial of a claim for occupation rent

Mediation and ADR

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Daisy is a trained mediator and accepts instructions to mediate in all matters within her practice areas.

Significant Cases

Brake v Lowes; Brake v Swift [2020]

EWCA Civ 1491

Whether discharged bankrupts have standing to challenge transactions entered into by their trustee in bankruptcy on grounds that they were unlawful and without authority and whether bidders in a bidding competition conducted by liquidators as officers of the court have standing to challenge the resulting sale on grounds that the bidding was rigged and the process was unfair

O’Hara v Markham [2019]

EWCA Civ 397

Successfully appeared for the respondent to an appeal in respect of a variation to a freezing order

O’Hara v Markham [2018]

11 WLUK 176

Successfully appeared for the respondent to an application for an account which involved allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, breach of trust and conversion. Application was struck out as an abuse of process.

EDF v Re-Energised [2018]

BPIR 855

Acted for the successful respondent to an appeal against a winding up order.

Jackson v Davis [2017]

1 WLR 4005 (Ch D)

Acted for the trustee in bankruptcy in an application for possession and sale involving issues surrounding the equity of exoneration and beneficial interests.

Day v Shaw & Anor [2014]

EWHC 36 (Ch)

Acted for the successful respondent to an appeal concerning whether a wife was entitled to an equity of exoneration as between herself and her husband in her capacity as surety for his personal guarantee in circumstances where she also stood as co-surety with her husband for his company’s debt.

Lewis (Trustee in Bankruptcy of Kennedy) v Kennedy [2010]

BPIR 886

Acted for the Trustee in Bankruptcy in a case in which the court had to consider whether statutory interest was payable.

James Robert Tucker & Jeremy Spratt (Joint Supervisors of Energy Holdings No.3 (In Liquidation)) v Goldfields Mining LLC [2009]

1 BCLC 567 [2009] BPIR 704 [2010] BCC 544

Acting for the successful respondent to an appeal concerning the constructing of the terms of a creditors’ voluntary arrangement so as to enable the supervisors to admit late claims by creditors who had not received notice of the meeting.

Karsten v Markham [2010]

1 FCR 523

Acting for the successful claimant in a trial involving issues of undue influence, non est factum, misrepresentation and fraud.

Baker v Rowe (2010) 2 Costs LR 175 [2010]

1 FLR 761 [2010] FCR 413 [2010] Fam Law 17

Successfully appeared in the Court of Appeal in a case concerning the interaction between TLATA and ancillary relief proceedings.

Career and Associations

Chancery Bar Association

Trained Mediator - The Society of Mediators

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