| Called to the Bar | ||
| • | 26 November 1985 | |
| Education | ||
Francis Collaço Moraes |
• | BA (Law) |
| Specialities | ||
| • | Commercial Law Including companies, receivership, partnerships, commercial agreements, sales of goods, misrepresentation and mistake. |
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| • | Property Law Including real property, mortgages, charges, boundary disputes, probate, Landlord & Tenant, and property-related Torts, Inheritance Act. |
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| • | Insolvency Both corporate and personal. Francis was Counsel instructed in the first administration of a firm of Solicitors and in the first successful administration of an underwriting agency. |
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| • | Equitable Doctrines and Remedies Including tracing, resulting and constructive trusts, Freezing and Seizure orders and injunctions. |
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| • | Professional Negligence Accountants/Auditors, Lawyers, Surveyors |
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| Memberships | ||
| • | Chancery Bar Association | |
| • | Property Bar Association | |
| • | Professional Negligence Bar Association | |
| Appointments | ||
| • | Deputy High Court Master (assigned to the Chancery Division) | |
| Cases | ||
| • | Click here for Francis' recent reported cases | |
| Publications/ seminars: | ||
| • | Termination of Tenances for Tenant Default | |
| • | The proposed Bill "Landlord and Tenant (Termination of Tenancies) Bill" | |
| • | Inheritance (Provision For Family and Dependants) Act 1975 | |
| • | Adverse Possession and the HRA - Pye v United Kingdom | |
| • | Legal Professional Privilege | |
| • | Renewal of Business Tenancies | |
| • | Enforcement and Insolvency | |
| • | Easements and the LRA 2002 | |
| • | Equitable Interests | |
| • | Articles Human Rights (three parts) New Law Journal 2000 | |
| Other information | ||
| • | Accepts instructions via the Direct Professional Access procedure. | |
| • | Member of the Pro Bono Unit. | |
| • | Listed in Legal 500 as a leading junior in insolvency. His entry in the category for Property Litigation notes he is much appreciated by clients for his 'user-friendly approach and commercial advice'. | |
