George Bompas QC

Areas Of Practice

Company (including shareholder disputes), insolvency, banking, insurance, financial services and regulatory, arbitration and professional negligence litigation.

Cases Of Interest

More recent reported cases include:

Enviroco Ltd v Farstad Supply A/S [2011] 1 WLR 921, Supreme Court (meaning of "subsidiary" in Companies Acts)
Rohlig (UK) Ltd v Rock Unique Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 18, Court of Appeal (contract terms)
Revenue & Customs v Maxwell [2010] EWCA Civ 1379, Court of Appeal (voting at creditors' meetings in administrations)
Re Frankice (Golders Green) Ltd [2010] Bus L.R. 1608 (scope of moratorium in administrations)
Gresham International Ltd v Moonie [2010] Ch 285 (liquidator's costs in unsanctioned proceedings)
El Bishlawi v Minrealm Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 780 Court of Appeal (unfair prejudice proceedings)
Clydesdale Financial Services v Smailes [2009] BCC 810 (removing administrators)
Samut v Manzi [2009] 1 WLR 1834, Privy Council (succession)
First Coin v Peace [2008] EWHC 10103 (Ch) (minority shareholders action)
Doughty Hanson v Roe [2008] 1 BCLC 404 (pre-emption in company's articles)
Walbrook Trustees v Fattal [2007] EWHC 2808 (Ch) (joint venture rights of pre-emption)
Multiplex v Cleveland Bridge [2007] EWCA Civ 433, Court of Appeal (contract interpretation)

Other cases include

Duetsche Postbank AG v The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (structured debt instruments)
Re Capital Cabs; Music Sales v Shapiro Bernstein; Lloyd v Casey; Re Leeds United Holdings and Re BSB Holdings (No.2) (unfair prejudice proceedings)
Shahar v Tsitsekkos (derivative action)
Re: TLL Realisations, Re Landhurst Leasing, Dawes & Henderson,  SoS v Laing, Re Living Images Ltd and Re Dominion International Group (No.2) (director disqualifications)
Re: Barton Manufacturing Co (Insolvency Act s.238)
Re Lomax Leisure (administration petition - lessor's right of peaceable re-entry)
Re Regalway Care, Arena Corp v Schroeder, Re Jack Barrs Wholesale and Re Anglo-German Breweries (insolvency and recovery proceedings in MTIC and duty evasion cases)
Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson (mistaken identity in contract formation)
OBG v Allan (professional negligence)
Giles v Rhind (reflective loss)
Needler Financial Services Ltd v Taber (financial services - measure of damages for negligent financial advice)
Re: Cox v Bankside Members Agency (Lloyd's litigation - Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act).

George Bompas has great experience, having acted over the years in many of the major corporate matters of public interest in the UK.  Nevertheless he is approachable, versatile and a good problem solver.  He is described in Chambers UK Guide as "brilliant at everything" and "an extremely measured advocate who is lightning-fast at grasping all the implications of a case.  The summary continues, "Interviewees describe him as ‘deceptively lethal - in cross-examination he can totally annihilate a witness whilst never being anything less than courteous'.  Out of court [he] has a large advisory practice and is ‘someone whom solicitors go to in order to stress-test solutions'".

Publications

OUP "Annotated Companies Acts"; Tolley's Company Law, "Company Investigations"; Butterworth's Practical Insolvency, "Investigations" and "Funding Litigation and Assigning Claims".

Appointments

Junior Counsel (Chancery) to the Department of Trade and Industry (1989-94).
George Bompas is approved to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge.

Overseas Qualifications

Called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands and, for specific cases, to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago.

Professional

Member of the Commercial Bar Association, the Chancery Bar Association and the Insolvency Lawyers Association.

Notes

George Bompas is listed by Chambers UK as one of the leading Silks in Chancery/Commercial, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Company, Financial Services Regulation and Insolvency/Corporate Recovery, and by the Legal 500 as one of the leading Silks in Banking and Finance, Company, and Insolvency.