Duncan Hope

Biography

Duncan has considerable experience of advising clients on a varied caseload of commercial disputes, with particular expertise in:

• Contractual disputes
• Professional negligence
• Banking and finance litigation
• Pension disputes
• Fraud and dishonesty
• The enforcement of restrictive covenants 

Recent highlights:

• Acting for a manufacturer in a claim against an employee for the misappropriation of over £300,000, obtaining injunctive relief over relevant assets within 24 hours of being instructed.
• Advising beneficiaries of Jersey-based trusts in a professional negligence claim after a demand from HMRC following the amendment of trust documents by solicitors.
• Acting for a football club, an interested party, in successfully defending judicial review proceedings seeking to quash the planning permission for the development of its new stadium.
• Acting for a clothing manufacturer in successfully resisting an application for an injunction relating to the sale of complex and specialised manufacturing equipment.

Market view:

Duncan Hope is "intelligent and strategic, with a good balanced mind," and "an effective leader who knows exactly what he's doing." – Chambers & Partners, 2018

Team head Duncan Hope is "an experienced litigator" with "a very effective and measured approach." – Legal 500, 2017