Seb Oram

Call 2007
Email seb.oram@3pb.co.uk
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Property & Chancery

Seb is a Commercial, Chancery and Property Law barrister. He focuses particularly on insolvency, real property and landlord and tenant law and is a member of the Chancery Bar Association and an associate member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3).

He has considerable experience of advocacy in the County Court and High Court, and has been instructed as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal.

Typical recent cases include:

• Shareholder dispute arising from the dissolution of a technology-based business venture, claiming undue influence and intimidation (2011, Bristol Mercantile Court; case ongoing)
• Professional negligence claim against solicitors arising from advice given during the course of their conveyancing retainers in multi-transactional property redevelopment venture (2012, Chancery Division; case ongoing)
• Acting for landlord in tenant’s application to Lands Chamber to release user covenants in a long lease (2012, Lands Chamber)
• Acting for landlord in disrepair claim brought by its tenant in arbitration proceedings (2011, case ongoing)
• Acting for directors and shadow directors in resisting a liquidator’s misfeasance application under the Insolvency Act 1986 (2011, Chancery Division)
  After reading law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Seb completed an LL.M. (by research) at the University of Bristol, investigating the impact of European Community law on the investment practices of institutional investors.

Noteworthy cases

Stupples v. Stupples & Co (High Wycombe) Ltd   [2012] EWHC 1226 (Ch) (defence of claim for agent’s fees, based on agent’s conflict of interest)

Courtenay Gate Lawns Ltd v. Lee [2012] UKUT 125 (Lands Chamber) (resisting application to discharge restrictive covenants in a long lease, raising a point of principle as to the effect of a landlord’s conduct in granting subsequent leases in different form)

Asiansky Television Plc & Anor v Khanzada & Ors [2011] EWHC 2831 (QB) (professional negligence claim in relation to the conduct of litigation)

Imageview Management Ltd v. Jack [2009] EWCA Civ 63; [2009] 2 All ER 666; [2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep 436; [2009] 1 BCLC 724; [2009] Bus LR 1034; The Times, 24 March 2009 (extent of a fiduciary’s disentitlement to remuneration following breach of duty).

Publications in this field

“Forfeiture of fiduciary remuneration following breach of duty: from contract to conscience” [2010] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 95.

Professional memberships

• Member of the Chancery Bar Association
• Associate member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (“R3”).