Lauren Godfrey

Lauren is a commercial chancery practitioner.

The focus of his practice is cases involving allegations of fraud and dishonesty.

Many of his cases have required careful witness handling or raise specific specialist procedural issues such as the clean hands doctrine, res judicata and the consequences of perjury and contempt of court.

The core of Lauren's practice engages issues of professional negligence, restraint of trade, company, partnership, LLP, trusts, employment, breach of fiduciary duties, directors’ duties, unfair prejudice, insolvency, derivative claims, confidential information, intellectual property rights, defamation, data protection and discrimination.

Lauren has acted for a full range of clients including banks, insurers, finance companies, directors, shareholders, partners, senior employees, local authorities, central government, trade unions, and not-for-profit entities.

Prior to the Bar, Lauren had a successful career as a senior trade union advocate representing executives and senior staff in the Telecoms sector, the Civil Service and the NHS.

Lauren has 18 years’ experience as a Senior Lecturer in Law (Sessional) at Birkbeck College, where he studied as an undergraduate, most recently teaching Company Law.