Peter Griffiths

Cases of Interest

Abbington Hotel Ltd [2011] EWHC 635 (Ch) (unfair prejudice petition).
Sunrise Radio Ltd [2009] EWHC 2893 (Ch) (unfair prejudice petition).
Southern Counties Fresh Foods Ltd [2008] EWHC 2810 and [2010] EWHC 3334 (Ch)(unfair prejudice petition).
VFS Financial Services (UK) Ltd v Euro Auctions (UK) Ltd [2007] EWHC 1492 (QB) (defending claim for conversion).
BNP Paribas UK v Yukos Oil Co. [2005] EWHC 1321 (resisting application for summary judgment in a claim under a loan agreement).
Lennox Lewis v Panos Eliades & Ors [2005] EWHC (Ch) 488 (a claim by a judgment creditor with the benefit of a charging order that the property charged belonged to the judgment debtor rather than the registered proprietor).
Shahar v Tsitsekkos & Ors [2004] EWHC (Ch) 7659 (a case concerning service out of the jurisdiction under the Judgments Regulation and CPR r.6.20).
Hocking & Anor v Canyon Holdings Ltd [2004] EWHC (Ch) 1966 (a claim by a trustee in bankruptcy to set aside a transaction at an undervalue).
Hunter v Senate Support Services Ltd & Ors [2005] 1 BCLC 175 (an action to set aside the forfeiture of shares for non payment of calls).
Colonial Finance (UK) Ltd v KSC Trading Ltd [2003] EWCA Civ 1593 (a case involving detailed accounting in relation to hire purchase agreements).
Re Anglo German Breweries Ltd [2003] BTC 5021 (a winding up petition based on assessments for VAT and excise duty subject to appeals).
Doreen Tibbs v Mayor and Burgesses of Islington London Borough Council [2002] EWCA Civ 1682, [2003] BPIR 743 (a claim for malicious prosecution).
Re Cadogan Estates Ltd v McMahon [2000] 3 WLR 1555 (a decision of the House of Lords on the Rent Act 1977).
Re Park Air Services Plc [1999] 2 WLR 396, [1999] 1 All ER 673 (a decision of the House of Lords on damages on disclaimer).
SIB v Scandex Capital Management A/S [1998] 1 WLR 712, [1998] 1 All ER 514 (a decision of the Court of Appeal on the Financial Services Act 1986.
Re H & K (Medway) Ltd [1997] 1 WLR 1422, [1997] 2 All ER 321 (a case involving the priority of preferential creditors in a liquidation).
Steele v Manxtrust International SA [1993-95] MLR 309 (a motion to commit an advocate for contempt in the Isle of Man).
Re Saul D. Harrison, ex p Burr [1995] 1 BCLC 14 (a decision of the Court of Appeal in an unfair prejudice petition).
Morris v SFO [1993] 1 Ch 372, [1993] 1 All ER 788 (one of the cases in the BCCI liquidation involving s.236 of the Insolvency Act 1986).
Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International [1992] BCLC 570 (a winding up petition).
Barlow Clowes Gilt Management Ltd v Clowes The Times, 2 February 1990 (one of the many cases in the Barlow Clowes litigation in which Peter Griffiths acted for the liquidators and receivers).
Re Berkeley Applegate Ltd [1989] BCLC 28 (a case concerning a liquidator's right to be remunerated out of assets held on trust by the company in liquidation).
Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran [1989] 2 All ER 225 (a decision of the Court of Appeal on acquiring title to land by limitation).
Re a Debtor (No 1 of 1987) [1989] 2 All ER 46 (a decision of the Court of Appeal on the validity of a statutory demand).

Publications

Atkins Court Forms, 2nd Ed, Volume 10, Companies Winding Up, 1988
Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, 5th Ed, Volume 11, Companies, 1992
Butterworths Practical Insolvency, 1999
Annotated Companies Act (OUP) 2006-2010 

Overseas Qualifications

Admitted as advocate & attorney in Isle of Man for specific cases.

Professional

Member of the Chancery Bar Association and the Insolvency Lawyers Association