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Year of Call: 2017

E: mairiInnes@enterprisechambers.com

T: 020 7405 9471

Clerk: Raj Lamba

Profile

Mairi has a strong commercial chancery practice, with particular focus on commercial disputes, insolvency and civil fraud. Mairi has significant experience in group actions arising from failed property investment schemes. Mairi is ranked as Up and Coming by Chambers and Partners in the field of Restructuring/Insolvency, where she is described as “a very safe pair of hands indeed” and “absolutely on top of the details”.

Recent cases in which Mairi has been involved include:

  • Successfully representing (led by Niall McCulloch) the claimant liquidators of a bridge lending company in the 5-week trial of their claim in fraudulent trading and breach of duty against the company’s former directors. Judgment was obtained on 13 December 2023 (Bouchier v Booth [2023] EWHC 3195 (Ch)) resulting in a judgment against the directors of approximately £30 million.
  • Representing (led by Simon Johnson) defendants to a claim worth £50 million brought by a large group of individuals alleging fraudulent misrepresentation relating to the sale and purchase of holiday and student properties. Among other things, Mairi appeared as junior counsel on the 3-day application to discharge a worldwide freezing order: 4VVV Ltd v Spence [2023] EWHC 1 (Comm).
  • Representing (led by Simon Johnson) 91 claimants in a group action against negligent solicitors and their insurers, arising from a failed property investment scheme.
  • Acting (led by Niall McCulloch) for the petitioner and provisional liquidators of a company suspected of involvement in a substantial and complex labour supply fraud with an international element. A winding up order was successfully obtained on 24 October 2023: Parrot Pay Ltd (In Liquidation) v Goddington Pierce Ltd (in Provisional Liquidation) [2023] EWHC 2774 (Ch).

Mairi’s practice is exclusively contentious and she regularly appears, both as sole counsel and as part of a counsel team, in the High Court and the County Court. Her practice also involves a wide range of advisory work. She accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ main practice areas.

Mairi has been appointed by the Attorney General to the London C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, commencing on 1 September 2024 for 5 years.

  • Mairi is a very safe pair of hands indeed. She cuts to the chase very well

    Chambers and Partners
  • She is absolutely on top of the details and excellent at preparing skeleton arguments

    Chambers and Partners

Practice Areas

Significant Cases

Career and Associations

Appointed by the Attorney General to the London C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.

Elected to the Chancery Bar Association Committee

Bar Professional Training Course: 2016-2017

Denning and Hardwicke Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn: 2016-2017

Property, Family and Trust Team, Law Commission: 2015-2016

Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA Law, First Class): 2012-2015

Awarded the Willoughby Prize for Private Law, the Foundation Scholarship, the Squire Scholarship and the Pembroke College Prize

Member of the Chancery Bar Association

Member of the Property Bar Association

Publications

Gore-Brown on Companies, Chapter 52: Administration

Landlord and Tenant Factbook, Chapter 2: Rent Review

Enforcement of Possession Orders in Residential Premises During the Pandemic, Practical Law Property Litigation Column, February 2021

Bankruptcy Petitions Founded on Foreign Judgments: Points to Consider, Touchpoint Newsletter (INSOL), July 2020

MEES Regulations, EPCs and Residential Tenancies from April 2020, Practical Law Property Litigation Column, May 2020

Restate or Update: When Will the Court Insert New Terms in a Commercial Lease Renewal, Practical Law Property Litigation Column, September 2019