Tim Hardy

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Qualified: 
Mediator
Specialist Areas: 
Commercial
Company
Financial services and banking
Professional Negligence
Education: 
Nottingham Trent University

General Information: 
Tim Hardy is Head of CMS Cameron McKenna’s Litigation department, and deals primarily with disputes concerning finance, commerce, professional negligence, product and corporate reputations. He is a Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil).

Experience
Recent experience includes:


Insolvency and Banking, conducting an investigation for SRO into misappropriation of Mirror Group Pension Fund securities by Robert Maxwell; acting for one of the largest foreign creditors of BCCI; defending a clearing bank’s claim for security over assets in the liquidation of Polly Peck, and disputes related to letters of credit and performance bonds.

Professional negligence claims involving solicitors, auditors relating to share and asset valuations and valuers relating to trophy properties, commercial developments and hotels.

International arbitrations arising out of software design & licensing, drug development licensing, scrap steel sale contracts and acted for the plaintiff in the leading case on the enforcement of non-domestic arbitration agreements.

Product liability involving pharmaceuticals, cable insulation, refinery equipment, pipelines and construction industry products.

Media law libel actions, complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Commission and the Press Complaints Commission, including complaints for Barratt Developments, The Nutrasweet Company, Dixons, Schering, Camelot, Airtours and Monsanto.

Mediation - as a mediator or representatives of a party, including disputes concerning dishonoured cheques, warranty claims, building disputes and IT contracts.

His major cases include Russell Moonies -v- Daily Telegraph; Del Monte Fresh Fruits Ltd -v- Midland Bank; Guinness Peat Property Ltd -v- Fitzroy Robinson Partnership; Texaco Ltd -v- Arco Technology Inc; The Nutrasweet Company -v- Guardian Newspapers Limited; Ham Dredging (Nigeria) Limited -v- BCCI SA; Winyard -v- Tatler; Faisal Islamic Bank -v-BCCI (in liquidation); Turkiye Is Bankasi -v- Bank of China.

Memberships
These include:

CEDR

LCIA

City Disputes Panel User’s Committee

Law Society

City of London Solicitors Company

British Institute of International and Comparative Law

American Bar Association (associate member)

Institute of Public Relations

Solicitors' Association of Higher Court Advocates

Other
Writes and lectures on conflicts of law, product liability, crisis management, the litigatio process and mediation.

A keen sportsmen particulary rugby, cricker, skiing and fishing.