Laurie Scher

Practice Areas

Laurie acts and advises in areas including:

Commercial and contractual disputes

Commercial fraud

Property and land law

Company and partnership law

Trusts, probate and wills

Insolvency (corporate and personal)

Professional negligence

Career

Laurie has a thriving practice of business and property work. His recent focus has been on very high-value disputes involving complex questions of law; cases involving allegations of fraud/wrongdoing; and disputes on multiple fronts.

Laurie has significant experience as a trial advocate. He appears regularly, unled, in the High Court and has appeared in the Court of Appeal as junior counsel on multiple occasions.

Laurie sits as a Deputy Chancery Master and a Deputy District Judge.

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar Association

COMBAR

Property Bar Association

Professional Negligence Bar Association

Publications

Buckley on the Companies Acts.

‘Unfair Prejudice Petitions’ in Westlaw’s Topics Encyclopaedia.

Personal

Laurie is passionate about social responsibility at the Bar. As Co-Chair of the Bar Council’s Pro Bono and Social Responsibility Committee 2021-4, Laurie led efforts to bring the profession to Net Zero by 2030. He has also worked with Maitland Chambers and the Chancery Bar Association on developing social responsibility and wellbeing strategies.