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Provided by Hugh Norbury KC
Hugh has a broad commercial and chancery practice, with a particular emphasis on cases involving fraud or breach of fiduciary duty. His practice extends to insolvency, company, trusts (onshore and offshore in all of these areas) as well as international arbitration.
He has been involved in many of the larger multi-party commercial and commercial fraud cases in recent years, including PIFSS v Al Rajaan (ongoing), a bribery / money-laundering claim where he is co-leading the Claimant’s team seeking to recover over $800m, Jinxin v Aser Media a US$700m+ deceit claim arising from the sale of a media rights business; Vale v Steinmetz & ors (2020-2021); ArcelorMittal v Essar Steel (during 2019), Accident Exchange v Autofocus & ors (2016-2018), a £100m+ conspiracy claim brought by a credit hire company against a number of firms of solicitors and experts and BTA Bank v Ablyazov, [2013] EWHC 510 (Comm).
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.
Studied PPE at Oxford, CPE at City University, LLM at King's College London. Called 1995. KC, 2012.
Provided by Chambers
Hugh Norbury KC is an excellent silk with an expansive commercial practice. He is instructed in high-profile and high-value civil fraud cases involving allegations such as breach of fiduciary duty, bribery and conspiracy.
Provided by Chambers
Hugh is a very polished advocate and reads the court brilliantly. He really understands fraud cases, and has a wealth of experience and a delightful style with clients. He is great on strategy.
He talks to all sorts of clients in a way they understand. He gets to the nub of the matter quickly, the quality of his written work is very high and he is a good advocate in court.
Hugh is very sage and provides extremely sound and tactically smart advice.
He understands working in a team and is commercial and team-oriented.
Hugh is incredibly good at factual analysis. He shows very good attention to detail and is very effective at cross-examination.
Hugh is bright, commercial, calm and really responsive.
His quality of written work is very high and he is a good advocate in fraudulent misrepresentation cases in particular.
Hugh is a very polished advocate, who reads the court brilliantly.
Hugh is a very polished advocate and reads the court brilliantly. He really understands fraud cases, and has a wealth of experience and a delightful style with clients. He is great on strategy.
He talks to all sorts of clients in a way they understand. He gets to the nub of the matter quickly, the quality of his written work is very high and he is a good advocate in court.
Hugh is very sage and provides extremely sound and tactically smart advice.
He understands working in a team and is commercial and team-oriented.
Hugh is incredibly good at factual analysis. He shows very good attention to detail and is very effective at cross-examination.
Hugh is bright, commercial, calm and really responsive.
His quality of written work is very high and he is a good advocate in fraudulent misrepresentation cases in particular.
Hugh is a very polished advocate, who reads the court brilliantly.
