Charles Béar KC

Practice Areas

Wide-ranging practice covering: general commercial litigation, judicial review, and public procurement.

Commercial work includes: fraud, conspiracy, business sales/joint ventures, restitution, freezing and search orders, minority shareholder claims. Sector experience includes life sciences, aviation, telecoms and high-tech engineering as well as numerous cases involving Russia and Russian or former Soviet Union parties.

Practises mainly in Commercial Court and Chancery Division and on appeal, also offshore including Bermuda Supreme Court and Cayman Grand Court. Public law work is based in the Administrative Court and the appellate courts and includes numerous reported cases across various fields.

Has significant experience of constitutional, financial and vires issues for central government, regulators, local authorities, NHS entities and other agencies, and regularly advises public bodies on major procurement issues.

Recent reported or high-profile cases include:

• LCIA: (1) Nori Holding Limited (In Liquidation) (2) Centimila Services Limited (In Liquidation) (3) Coniston Management Limited v (1) PJSC Bank Otkritie Financial Corporation (2) PJSC National Bank Trust.

• Palmali Shipping SA. -v- Litasco S.A.

• Irina Mikhailovna Vagina and Alexander Stephanovich Vagin.

• R (on the application of Jet2.com Ltd) v Civil Aviation Authority [2020] EWCA Civ 35; [2018] EWHC 3364 (Admin); [2019] EWHC 336 (Admin).

• Enka Insaat ve Sanayi A.S. -v- (1) OOO “Insurance Company “CHUBB” (2) Chubb Russia Investments Limited Chubb European Group SE (4) Chubb Limited.

• Wong v Grand View PTC.

Career

Called 1986, Lincoln’s Inn; QC 2003; Recorder 2003.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR (Chair of India Committee), ALBA, ELBA.

Personal

Magdalen College, Oxford, 1985 (1st Class Hons, Jurisprudence).