Practice Areas
Commercial litigation, including all aspects of banking and finance, civil fraud, professional negligence, jurisdiction and conflict of laws, and aviation. In particular, Craig is regularly involved financial mis-selling cases, cases involving regulatory issues (such as unlicensed trading), and injunction applications (especially cases involving AML / POCA issues, frozen bank accounts and/or the withdrawal of banking services).
Recent notable cases include: Hutchinson v Wizz Air Hungary [2025] EWHC 1256 (KB) (worldwide freezing injunction); ThisCompany Ltd v Welsh [2025] EWHC 1207 (Comm) (civil fraud); Dexia Credit Local SA v Patrimonio del Trentino SpA [2024] EWHC 2717 (Comm) (swaps mis-selling); Kingdom Bank Corp v Moorwand [2023] EWHC 3069 (Comm) (Norwich Pharmacal relief against EMI); Merrill Lynch International v Citta Metropolitana di Milano [2023] EWHC 1015 (Comm) (swaps mis-selling); Bank of America Europe DAC v Citta Metropolitana di Milano [2022] EWHC 1544 (Comm) (swaps mis-selling); Gopee v The Crown Court at Southwark [2023] EWCA Civ 881; FCA v Barons Finance [2021] EWHC 2363 (Ch); [2022] EWHC 2647 (Ch) (remedial injunction against unlicensed moneylenders); von Pezold v Border Timbers [2020] EWHC 2172 (Ch) (dispute relating to overlapping ICSID arbitral awards); Banca Intesa v Commune di Venezia [2020] EWHC 3150 (Comm) (swaps mis-selling); GDE LLC v Anglia Autoflow [2020] EWHC 105 (Comm) (governing law of a contract).
Personal
University of Auckland, NZ - LLB(Hons) and BA Psychology; Brasenose College, Oxford - BCL and MPhil; BPP – BVC.