Clive Blackwood
Call
Called 1986
Practice group
Education
Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge BA 1985
Profumo Scholar (Inner Temple)
Practice
General Commercial: including bankruptcy and insolvency and all contractually based claims, particularly finance and credit transactions, agency, domestic and international sale and transportation of goods, supply of goods and services
Banking and Insurance: including securities, guarantees and indemnities, bankers' and insurers' liabilities generally with particular emphasis on personal health insurance
Building & Construction: all forms of building and construction disputes in the Technology and Construction Court and County Courts including architects and engineers duties, ICE, RIBA, GC/Works and JCT forms
Company and Partnership: including shareholder disputes, fiduciary and directors' duties, directors disqualification applications and minority shareholders claims; Company and Partnership; including shareholder disputes, fiduciary and directors' duties, directors disqualification applications and minority shareholders claims
Employment: including all forms of dismissal and discrimination claims, confidentiality and application of restrictive covenants
Experience
A broad range of commercial work in the areas detailed above, acting for PLCs, Banks and other institutions together with company and private clients. In addition to advisory and non contentious work, extensive advocacy experience in the County Courts, Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal, all divisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal, together with trade and partnership arbitrations.
Membership
London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association
Bar European Group
Articles
"The House of Lords and Etridge No 2: New Departures in Undue Influence" (LC Commercial Bulletin March 2002)
"The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999: an Overview" (LC Commercial Bulletin June 2002)
Interests
Political, diplomatic & military history, rugby & cricket



