Robert Hildyard QC

Cases of Interest

Guinness (directors duties);
Sea Containers (Bermuda/take-over litigation) [1996] JBL;
Wytch Farm (oil rights);
Carpets International [1990] BCLC 460 (duties of directors in take-over bids);
Byng v London Life [1990] Ch 170 (company meetings);
Kurz -v- Stella Musical Veranstaltungs GmbH Ch.D. [1992] Ch.196 (jurisdiction clause);
Saipem SpA v Rafidain Bank [1994] CLC 252 (contractual interpretation - oil pipeline),
Heron Group restructuring;
Re NRG Victory Reinsurance Ltd [1995] 1 All ER 533 (transfer of insurance business);
Charter Reinsurance Co.Ltd v Fagan [1997] AC 313 (re-insurance);
Macmillan Inc v Bishopsgate Investment Trust Plc & ors [1996] 1 WLR 387, (restitution,
constructive trusts, conflict of laws - shares);
BSB Holdings [1996] 1 BCLC 158 (sec 459 - unfair prejudice - duty of directors);
Regalian Properties v LDDC [1995] 1 WLR 212 (restitution - Quasi contract - costs incurred for
intended contract);
Bank Negara Indonesia 1946 v Taylor [1995] CLC 255 (enforcement of guarantee).
Phillips Petroleum Co. UK Ltd v Enron Europe Ltd [1997] CLC 329 (oil contract, construction of);
In re: Hill Samuel Life Assurance Ltd [1998] 3 All ER 176 (life insurance business transfer);
MCC Proceeds Inc v Lehman Brothers International (Europe) [1998] 2 BCLC 659 (good faith
purchaser - whether conversion lies against);
Re: Market Wizard Systems (UK) Ltd [1998] 2 BCLC 282 (banking & financial services - company
law);
Norwich Union Life Insurance Society v Qureshi [1999] CLC 1963 (insurance - duty of
disclosure)
Aldrich & ors v Norwich Union Life Insurance Co. Ltd [1999] CLC 1963 (insurance - banking and
financial services);
Secretary of State & Industry v North West Holdings plc [1999] 1 BCLC 425 (public interest
petition - provisional liquidator - advertisement);
Hall v Bank of England [2000] LLR (Banking) 186 [Court of Appeal] (tort-misfeasance in public office - rule in Foss & Harbottle - reflective loss)
Ikarian Reefer (no.2) [2000] 1 WLR 603
Axa Equity and Law Life Assurance Society plc [2001] 2 BCLC 447 (pre-emptive costs order in
insurance company transfer scheme)
Axa Equity and Law Assurance Society plc [2001] 2 BCLC 467 (scheme for reattribution of
insurance company inherited estate)
Cleaver v Delta Re [2001] 2 AC 328 (winding-up; hotchpot; IBNR claims)
Konamaneni v Rolls-Royce (India) Ltd [2002] 1 WLR 1269 (conflict of laws and derivative actions)
Vedatech Corp. v Crystal Decisions (UK) Ltd [2002] EWHC 818 (Ch.) (proper measure of
restitutionary remedy)
In re Supporting Link Ltd [2004] 1 WLR 1549 (Secretary of State's Petition; whether undertakings
acceptable)
Norwich Union Life Assurance (scheme of transfer and reorganisation)
Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (legal professional privilege)
Equitas Ltd, [2009] EWHC 1595 (Ch), [2010] Ll Rep 1269 (Part 7 Transfer scheme)

Overseas Cases of Interest

Banco Economico v Allied Leasing [1998] CILR 292, [2001] CILR 93, [2002] CILR 118 (Winding-
up of overseas bank) [Cayman Islands]
Allied Investment Fund v Johnson [1999] CILR 237 (removal of Liquidator) [Cayman Islands]
Re CAP Securities [1999] HKLRD 1 (collapse of broker - nature of customers' interests in
fungible bulk of securities - proprietary claims) [Hong Kong]
Omni Securities v Coleman [2001] CILR 68 (Directors' duties; de facto and shadow directors)
[Cayman Islands]
Omni Securites Ltd v Deloitte and Touche (auditors' negligence; procedure for multiple actions)
[Cayman Islands]
Grupo Torras v Bank of Butterfield [2002] CILR 68 (fraud; breach of duty and tracing) [Cayman
Islands]
In re Al Sabah [2003] CILR 413 (orders on aid in bankruptcy) [Bahamas and Cayman Islands]
Esteem Settlements (tracing; sham trusts; remedial constructive trust; article 47 Jersey Trust
Law) [Jersey]
Sun Life of Canada (worldwide demutualistation) [Hong Kong]
Koonmen v Bender [2002] JLR N 45: (Jersey trust forum selection clause)
Re Chime Corporation [2004] 3 HKLRD 922 (minority shareholders' petition: availability of
restitutionary relief) [Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal]
Globe-X companies (cross-border liquidation and mutual assistance) [Bahamas and Anguilla
Court of Appeal]
Astian Group Ltd v TNK Industrial Holdings Ltd (forum non conveniens; conflict of laws) [BVI
Court of Appeal]
Oracle Fund Ltd (large sale litigation against Fortis Bank [Bahamas and Privy Council Appeal](concerned amongst other things issue of reflective loss)
Alexiou & anr v Campbell (construction of consent order/contract compromising litigation for the sale of shares in a Bahamian insurance group),[Bahamas Privy Council Appeal]
Validus Holdings Ltd v IPC Holdings Ltd (Contentious Company Scheme of arrangement)[Bermuda]

Publications

Contributor: Butterworths Encyclopaedia Forms and Precedents (company volume)
Contributor: Tolley's Company Law.
Consultant Editor: Annotated Companies Act (Oxford University Press)

Appointments

Junior Counsel to the Crown (Chancery) (1992-1994).
Company Law Review Working Group advising DTI on Shareholders' Remedies  (including statutory reform of the rule in Foss & Harbottle and consideration of reflective loss)
Deputy Judge of the High Court (2001- )
Financial Reporting Review Panel (2002- )
Attorney General to the Duchy of Lancaster (2006- )

Overseas Qualifications

Called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean (Anguilla and BVI) and the Bars of the Bahamas,
Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks & Caicos and Hong Kong for specific cases.

Languages

Spanish

Professional

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