Partnership and LLP

Acting for the successful party both at trial and on appeal in a dispute whether a partnership existed and if so, what its terms were and whether it should be dissolved.

Widely referred to as rekindling the Syers v Syers jurisdiction.

Acting for the receiver of a firm of a dissolved firm of solicitors in a claim including allegations of diversion of business and refusal by a former partner to give up files.

Acting for former partner of a solicitors firm who had been expelled following discovery that his wife who was an employee of the firm had been using client account money to feed her gambling addiction. The reported decision dealt with the effect of Part 36 offers in the context of partnership dissolution agreements.

Summary determination of, inter alia, allegations of an oral partnership between a property developer and provider of loan finance.

Dispute involving a GP partnership with issues surrounding the ownership and the basis of partners’ occupancy of a building.

Dispute over membership of LLP: reversal of unauthorised removal of member’s name and the unauthorised addition of another person’s name in the register of members.

Family partnership running farming enterprise and golf course, removal of trustees from family trusts, whether partnership has AHA tenancy, effect of accountancy transactions dressed as land transactions relating to golf course, taking of partnership accounts consequent on determination of land interests.

Family farming partnership dispute raising multiple issues consequent on dissolution.