Mark Cunningham QC

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Qualified: 
Mediator
Specialist Areas: 
Chancery
Commercial
Company
Insolvency
Intellectual Property
Landlord and Tenant
Media, entertainment, music and sport
Partnership and shareholder disputes
Professional Negligence
Property, planning and environment
Wills, inheritance and probate
Education: 
Magdalen College, Oxford BA

General Information: 
Mark’s practice is largely litigation based and covers all areas of commercial and traditional Chancery work. He has appeared in nearly fifty reported cases dealing with the following topics:
  • agency;
  • bankruptcy;
  • copyright;
  • directors’ disqualification;
  • Court of Protection;
  • equitable subrogation;
  • family provision
  • fiduciary duties;
  • gaming;
  • highways;
  • land registration;
  • limitation;
  • passing off;
  • rent review;
  • rights of way;
  • solicitors’ duties
  • trusts;
  • undue influence

He also has knowledge and experience of Equine Law matters.

As a result of his appointment as Junior Counsel to the Crown, Mark has had instructions from a wide range of government departments, including the DTI, the Home Office, Customs and Excise, the Inland Revenue and the Ministries of Defence, Environment, Health and Agriculture. From August 1998 to December 1999 he served as a DTI Inspector and conducted two insider-dealing investigations in respect of four PLC’s.

A feature of his practice is the diversity of legal topics which he has been instructed to deal with and the range of courts and tribunals in which he has appeared. In the last 4 years he has appeared in or at the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal, all 3 divisions of the High Court, the Court of Protection, the Copyright Tribunal, numerous County Courts, the Crown Court at Southwark and Blackfriars and the BSE Inquiry. For most of 2000 and 2001 Mark was involved in the case concerning the artist, Francis Bacon: this has been one of the most substantial pieces of Chancery Litigation of recent years.

Mark is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR and a contributor to "Mithani's: Directors' Disqualification".