Year of Call

2004

Employment

Barrister, Trinity Chambers, Newcastle upon Tyne

Education

Cambridge University - BA in Law (First Class Honours)
Oxford University - MA in Politics, Philosophy & Economics
Harvard Law School - Masters degree in Law
College of Law, York - Legal Practise Course

Areas of Practise

Commercial and Chancery Law - contract, shareholder and partnership disputes, sale of goods, landlord and tenant, company law, mortgages, breach of fiduciary duty
Employment Law - unfair and wrongful dismissal, all forms of unlawful discrimination, protected disclosures, compliance with statutory procedures, TUPE, equal pay

Awards

Cambridge University - Tripos Prize
Sidney Sussex College Scholar
Harvard Law School - Scholarship

Memberships

Commercial Bar Association
American Bar Association
Association of Bar of City of New York

Dates of Admission

2004 - Called to Bar of England and Wales
1998 - Admitted to New York Bar, US Tax Court, SDNY, EDNY
1996 - Admitted as Solicitor of England and Wales

Previous employment

2001 to 2004 - Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, USA (Senior Litigation Associate)
1997 to 2001 - Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, USA (Litigation Associate)
1994 to 1996 - Slaughter and May, London (Trainee solicitor)

Notable cases

Watt v. Kilickap T/A Pizza Cato (2007) (HHJ Behrens) (claim for forfeiture of lease of commercial premises based on allegation that tenant had deliberately set premises on fire)
Ronden Builders Ltd. v. Little Acorns (Northern) Ltd. (2006) LTL 5/6/2006 (rectification of building contract to allow builder to charge VAT on contract price)
Ruddick v. Ormston [2005] EWHC Civ. 2547, Ch. (validity of contract for sale of land under s.2(1) of Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989)
In re DaimlerChrysler AG Securities Litigation, Civ. Act: 00-993-JJF (defending DaimlerChrysler AG in $1 billion fraud litigation arising out of 1998 "merger of equals" of Chrysler Corp. and Daimler-Benz AG; after bench trial, all claims resolved in DaimlerChrysler's favour)
In re WorldCom Securities Litigation, File No: 02 Civ. 3288 (DLC) (defending syndicate of 17 major US, European and Japanese underwriters in $15 billion class action securities litigation arising out of bankruptcy of WorldCom, Inc.; case settled for $3.2 billion)
AriaWest International v. PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (defending Indonesia's largest company in $1.3 billion ICC arbitration concerning contract to build, operate and transfer telephone landlines; case settled on confidential terms)

Press

The Guardian, 10th May 2005 (breach of ASBO)
The American Lawyer, Nov. 2003 (DaimlerChrysler litigation)

Email

a.tinnion@trinitychambers.co.uk

Telephone

0191 232 1927