Cameron Maxwell Lewis 1974
Practice groups
Qualifications
Called to the Bar (Middle Temple) 1974
Admitted to the Bar, Hong Kong 1980
Admitted to the Bar Australia (ACT) 1990
Accredited as a Mediator (ADR) 2002
Practice
Financial services including derivatives and interest rate swaps, contract, domestic and international sale and carriage of goods, supply of services, corporate and individual insolvency, competition.
Company and Partnership: including shareholder disputes and minority shareholders' rights and remedies, directors' duties and liability, directors' disqualification.
Insolvency: corporate and individual.
Media and Sports: including film, television and music production, licensing and distribution, sports sponsorship and marketing, governing body relationships.
Intellectual Property: including copyright, passing off, trade marks and performing rights.
Experience
Advisory, non-contentious contract drafting and negotiation, contentious advice, drafting, negotiation and advocacy in courts, tribunals and mediations. Extensive experience with a wide range of commercial and media work both in private practice and in-house in England, Europe, the United States and Asia, advising and acting for and against governments, authorities, governing bodies, banking and financial institutions, corporate entities and individuals.
Membership
COMBAR
Recent and reported cases
Include:
Roder UK Limited v Titan Marquees Limited and others [2011] All ER (D) 93 (Oct); [2011] EWCA Civ 1126. Deceit and Misrepresentation by company directors as to the company's credit. Section 6 of Statute of Frauds (Amendment) Act 1828 definitively interpreted.
Caleb Construction Ltd v. Walker Lees Ltd [2008] EWHC (TCC) - Costs: Special Cases: circumstances in which non-parties to the litigation (in this case directors of the claimant company) could be ordered to pay the costs of the successful defendant : CPR 48(2) and Supreme Court Act 1981, s.51.
T. Comedy Limited v. Easy Managed Transport Limited [2007] 2 All ER (Comm) 189; [2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep 397; [2007] EWHC 611(Comm). International carriage of goods by road: carrier's lien under RHA Conditions of Carriage 1998; whether this was compatible with Article 13.2 of the CMR (Uniform Rules for International Carriage of Goods).
JJ Burgess & Sons v. Office of Fair Trading and Others [2005] CAT 25 - Competition Act s.18; dominance in a geographical area; where refusal to supply a competitor amounts to discrimination; objective justification.
Koo & Another v. Lam [1992] IPR 243 - existence of copyright in a questionnaire used in medical research; misuse of confidential information in an academic setting; infringement of copyright.
VAT Reg No
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