Rowena has experience of both company and partnership disputes having advised, drafted court documents and appeared in cases in the County Court and High Court concerning minority shareholder actions, derivative action against a foreign registered company, winding up of companies, dissolution of partnerships, partnership accounts, disqualification of directors and recovery of assets. Cases include:
Re Borex Property Limited (a company incorporated in the State of Belize with limited liability) [2015] EWHC 2610 (Ch)
Harris v SOS for Business, Innovation and Skills [2013] EWHC 2514 (Ch); [2015] BCC 283
Memberships
Lincoln’s Inn (Lord Denning, Hardwicke and Shelford Scholar and Buchanan Prize Winner)
Denning Society (society of scholars of Lincoln’s Inn)
Property Bar Association
Society of Legal Scholars
Planning and Environment Bar Association
Qualifications
LLB (Hons) (First Class)
BCL (Oxon)
BVC (graded ‘Outstanding’)
Licensed for direct access
Awarded a ‘Lord Denning Scholarship’, a ‘Hardwicke Scholarship’ and a ‘Shelford Scholarship’ by Lincoln’s Inn
Awarded a ‘Buchanan Prize’ by Lincoln’s Inn for ‘outstanding’ BVC performance
Awarded the ‘Clifford Chance Prize’ for best performance in Civil Procedure in the 2003 BCL examinations
Awarded the ‘Barnett Bequest’ by Merton College, Oxford, to study for the BCL
Awarded ‘Linnels Pize’ for best graduating undergraduate law student in her year
