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Hannah Ilett

Call: 2011

Overview

Hannah has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a wide range of experience in commercial litigation; civil fraud; corporate and personal insolvency;  company matters, including shareholder disputes and directors’ duties; trusts, including dishonest assistance claims; and property matters. She is an experienced advocate, appearing in the Court of Appeal, High Court and County Court.

Hannah is often instructed as junior counsel, and has been led in the Supreme Court, Privy Council, Court of Appeal, Commercial Court of the British Virgin Islands, and Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. She is called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands.

Hannah’s practice encompasses advice, drafting and advocacy at all stages of litigious disputes, and she is well versed in procedural matters.

 

Hannah has volunteered with CLIPS (the Chancery Bar Association Litigant in Person Scheme) in the High Court Applications Court and accepted instructions from Advocate.

Hannah was called to the Bar in 2011. She read Jurisprudence: Law with Law Studies in Europe at Jesus College, Oxford, spending a year at Panthéon-Assas in Paris. Hannah completed her

BPTC at Kaplan Law School as a Lord Denning scholar of Lincoln’s Inn (attaining the “Best Student” prize) before being awarded a Megarry Scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn for her pupillage year.

Terms of Business 

The clerks are happy to discuss the basis on which Hannah will act in any given matter. In the absence of express written agreement otherwise, the terms under which Hannah accepts instructions are The Standard Contractual Terms for the Supply of Legal Services By Barristers to Authorised Persons 2020 (as updated from time to time) referred to in the BSB Handbook.

Expertise

Overview

Hannah’s expertise in commercial disputes crosses a broad range of industries and includes cases with an international element.  Work includes incorporation of contractual terms, breaches and termination of contract, guarantees and indemnities, arbitration agreements and arbitration, limitation issues and enforcement.

Notable Cases

Previous work includes:

  • Candey Limited v Bosheh and Salfiti [2022] EWCA Civ 1103.  
    Acted for successful Respondents in an appeal of various applications in relation to privilege, summary judgment and strike out.  The Court of Appeal found that there was no implied duty of good faith on the part of the client in a CFA.
  • Goldtrail v Onur Air [2017] 1 WLR 3014 (Supreme Court)
    Led by Michael Gibbon KC. Application considering the circumstances in which means of a company’s owner should be taken into account when imposing a financial condition on the company.
  • Acted for successful claimant in claim for breach of termination provisions in a consultancy agreement.
  • Led by James Aldridge KC.  Instructed in relation to the purported termination of a development agreement and arrears of rent under an associated lease.
  • Led by David Mumford KC.  Instructed in relation to claims under an environmental contamination indemnity following the sale of a number of petrochemical facilities
  • Led by Andrew Ayres KC. Claims arising under a development agreement, including in respect of a duty to act fairly and in good faith.
  • Led by Andrew Ayres KC, Claims relating to the validity and effectiveness of notices given under settlement agreements.
  • Instructed as part of the barrister team in an arbitration concerning a joint venture agreement.

Overview

Hannah’s civil fraud experience includes deceit, misrepresentation, conspiracy, breach of duty, accessory claims and freezing injunctive relief.

Notable Cases

Previous work includes:

  • Candey Limited v Bosheh and Salfiti [2022] EWCA Civ 1103. 
    Hannah represented the successful Respondents in an appeal of various applications (in a claim for fraud) in relation to privilege (including the iniquity exception), summary judgment and strike out.  At first instance, the Claimant also sought a freezing injunction which was successfully resisted.
  • Goldtrail Travel v Aydin & ors [2015] 1 BCLC 89 (ChD)
    Led by Michael Gibbon KC.  Claims based on allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and dishonest assistance.
  • Instructed as part of the barrister team on a claim in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (Financial Services Division) brought by liquidators of an investment fund against a director and specialist service providers for dishonest breach of duty, accessory liability and conspiracy.
  • Application for without notice freezing injunctive relief, including in respect of crypto-assets.
  • Advice in relation to a freezing injunction made against a mortgagee.

Overview

Hannah has extensive experience in company and partnership matters including numerous unfair prejudice petitions; share sales (including purchase of own shares); breach of directors’ duties and dishonest assistance claims; company charges; and restoration to the register.

Notable Cases

  • Goldtrail Travel v Aydin [2015] 1 BCLC 89 (Ch D)
    Led by Michael Gibbon KC. Claims based on allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and dishonest assistance.
  • Instructed as part of the barrister team on a claim in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (Financial Services Division) brought by liquidators of an investment fund against a director and specialist service providers for dishonest breach of duty, accessory liability and conspiracy.
  • Led by Olivier Kalfon.  Instructed in relation to cross-jurisdictional claims against former directors and administrator of a BVI investment company.
  • Advising on leases and the validity thereof in the context of a partnership dispute and subsequent settlement agreement.

Overview

Hannah’s substantial insolvency practice encompasses both corporate and individual insolvency disputes. Her experience includes preference, wrongful trading and misfeasance claims, transactions at an undervalue, applications under s.234 and 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986, appointment of administrators, the relationship between the insolvency regime and property matters, winding up and bankruptcy petitions, including restraint of advertisement and/or presentation, recission and annulment, and applications to set aside statutory demands.

Notable Cases

  • Arlington Infrastructure Ltd (In Administration) v Woolrych [2020] EWHC 3121 (Ch)
    Led by Olivier Kalfon. Successful challenge to the out of court appointment of administrators over energy companies on the basis that the floating charges upon which the appointments relied were unenforceable.
  • Goldtrail Travel v Aydin [2015] 1 BCLC 89 (Ch D)
    Led by Michael Gibbon KC. Claims brought by liquidator based on allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and dishonest assistance.
  • Mohammed Ghadami v Donegan [2014] EWHC 4448
    Successfully resisted an appeal against a decision dismissing an application to set aside a statutory demand.
  • Led by Olivier Kalfon.  Advised joint trustees of an insolvent estate of a deceased on a claim under section 339 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
  • Instructed for trial in a claim concerning the beneficial ownership of a property and section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986. Matter settled.
  • Application to set aside a statutory demand on the basis the debt was disputed.
  • Advice in relation to a disputed under sections 234, 236 and 238 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
  • Instructed in relation to claims against former directors of accompany under sections 212, 214 and 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
  • Instructed to resist a winding up petition on the basis that the debt was disputed.

Overview

Hannah has a broad property practice, her experience includes: restrictive covenants; rights of way; nuisance; beneficial ownership; possession actions (landlord and tenant, trespasser, and mortgage); and the full range of commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters, including LTA 1954 Act business tenancy renewals, lease/licence categorization, breach of covenants, surrender, forfeiture, frustration, break notices, and breach of covenant.

Notable Cases

  • Anthony Armbrister, Cyril Armbrister v Marion Lightbourn & Ors [2012] UKPC 40
    Led by Carolyn Walton. Appeal to the Privy Council regarding title to two areas of land in the Bahamas.
  • Instructed for trial in a claim concerning the beneficial ownership of a property and section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986.  Matter settled.
  • Advising on tenant’s options following fire.
  • Led by James Aldridge KC.  Instructed in relation to the purported termination of a development agreement and arrears of rent under an associated lease.
  • Advice in relation to freezing injunctive relief obtained against mortgagee
  • Advising on leases and the validity thereof in the context of a partnership dispute and subsequent settlement agreement.
  • Advice in relation to a lost lease.
  • Advice on the existence of a right of way.
  • Instructed on an application for a new business tenancy.  Matter settled.
  • Advice on the legal basis of occupation and consequential matters.
  • Instructed in trial of a mortgage possession claim.  Matter settled.

Overview

Hannah’s experience in these areas includes: creation of trusts, breach of trust, dishonest assistance, knowing receipt and trustee’s duties.

Notable Cases

  • Wilkinson & Ors v J S Property Holdings Inc [2016] EWHC 1242 (Ch)
    Acted for the Second Defendant in a claim for a declaration that certain property was held on trust for the Claimants.
  • Led by David Mumford KC.  Acted in a dispute concerning the scope of a trustee’s duty to account to its beneficiaries.

Overview

Hannah’s has experience of professional negligence claims against solicitors and planning consultants.

Notable Cases

  • Advised in relation to a claim against former solicitors for failure to register a strip of land.

Memberships

  • Chancery Bar Association
  • Commercial Bar Association
  • Insolvency Lawyers Association
  • Property Bar Association.

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Hannah Ilett

Call: 2011

Overview

Hannah has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a wide range of experience in commercial litigation; civil fraud; corporate and personal insolvency;  company matters, including shareholder disputes and directors’ duties; trusts, including dishonest assistance claims; and property matters. She is an experienced advocate, appearing in the Court of Appeal, High Court and County Court.

Hannah is often instructed as junior counsel, and has been led in the Supreme Court, Privy Council, Court of Appeal, Commercial Court of the British Virgin Islands, and Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. She is called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands.

Hannah’s practice encompasses advice, drafting and advocacy at all stages of litigious disputes, and she is well versed in procedural matters.

Hannah has volunteered with CLIPS (the Chancery Bar Association Litigant in Person Scheme) in the High Court Applications Court and accepted instructions from Advocate.

Hannah was called to the Bar in 2011. She read Jurisprudence: Law with Law Studies in Europe at Jesus College, Oxford, spending a year at Panthéon-Assas in Paris. Hannah completed her

BPTC at Kaplan Law School as a Lord Denning scholar of Lincoln’s Inn (attaining the “Best Student” prize) before being awarded a Megarry Scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn for her pupillage year.

Terms of Business 

The clerks are happy to discuss the basis on which Hannah will act in any given matter. In the absence of express written agreement otherwise, the terms under which Hannah accepts instructions are The Standard Contractual Terms for the Supply of Legal Services By Barristers to Authorised Persons 2020 (as updated from time to time) referred to in the BSB Handbook.

Memberships

  • Chancery Bar Association
  • Commercial Bar Association
  • Insolvency Lawyers Association
  • Property Bar Association.

Commercial and Contractual Disputes

Hannah’s expertise in commercial disputes crosses a broad range of industries and includes cases with an international element.  Work includes incorporation of contractual terms, breaches and termination of contract, guarantees and indemnities, arbitration agreements and arbitration, limitation issues and enforcement.

Previous work includes:

  • Candey Limited v Bosheh and Salfiti [2022] EWCA Civ 1103.  
    Acted for successful Respondents in an appeal of various applications in relation to privilege, summary judgment and strike out.  The Court of Appeal found that there was no implied duty of good faith on the part of the client in a CFA.
  • Goldtrail v Onur Air [2017] 1 WLR 3014 (Supreme Court)
    Led by Michael Gibbon KC. Application considering the circumstances in which means of a company’s owner should be taken into account when imposing a financial condition on the company.
  • Acted for successful claimant in claim for breach of termination provisions in a consultancy agreement.
  • Led by James Aldridge KC.  Instructed in relation to the purported termination of a development agreement and arrears of rent under an associated lease.
  • Led by David Mumford KC.  Instructed in relation to claims under an environmental contamination indemnity following the sale of a number of petrochemical facilities
  • Led by Andrew Ayres KC. Claims arising under a development agreement, including in respect of a duty to act fairly and in good faith.
  • Led by Andrew Ayres KC, Claims relating to the validity and effectiveness of notices given under settlement agreements.
  • Instructed as part of the barrister team in an arbitration concerning a joint venture agreement.

Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery

Hannah’s civil fraud experience includes deceit, misrepresentation, conspiracy, breach of duty, accessory claims and freezing injunctive relief.

Previous work includes:

  • Candey Limited v Bosheh and Salfiti [2022] EWCA Civ 1103. 
    Hannah represented the successful Respondents in an appeal of various applications (in a claim for fraud) in relation to privilege (including the iniquity exception), summary judgment and strike out.  At first instance, the Claimant also sought a freezing injunction which was successfully resisted.
  • Goldtrail Travel v Aydin & ors [2015] 1 BCLC 89 (ChD)
    Led by Michael Gibbon KC.  Claims based on allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and dishonest assistance.
  • Instructed as part of the barrister team on a claim in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (Financial Services Division) brought by liquidators of an investment fund against a director and specialist service providers for dishonest breach of duty, accessory liability and conspiracy.
  • Application for without notice freezing injunctive relief, including in respect of crypto-assets.
  • Advice in relation to a freezing injunction made against a mortgagee.

Company, Partnerships & LLPs

Hannah has extensive experience in company and partnership matters including numerous unfair prejudice petitions; share sales (including purchase of own shares); breach of directors’ duties and dishonest assistance claims; company charges; and restoration to the register.

  • Goldtrail Travel v Aydin [2015] 1 BCLC 89 (Ch D)
    Led by Michael Gibbon KC. Claims based on allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and dishonest assistance.
  • Instructed as part of the barrister team on a claim in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (Financial Services Division) brought by liquidators of an investment fund against a director and specialist service providers for dishonest breach of duty, accessory liability and conspiracy.
  • Led by Olivier Kalfon.  Instructed in relation to cross-jurisdictional claims against former directors and administrator of a BVI investment company.
  • Advising on leases and the validity thereof in the context of a partnership dispute and subsequent settlement agreement.

Insolvency & Restructuring

Hannah’s substantial insolvency practice encompasses both corporate and individual insolvency disputes. Her experience includes preference, wrongful trading and misfeasance claims, transactions at an undervalue, applications under s.234 and 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986, appointment of administrators, the relationship between the insolvency regime and property matters, winding up and bankruptcy petitions, including restraint of advertisement and/or presentation, recission and annulment, and applications to set aside statutory demands.

  • Arlington Infrastructure Ltd (In Administration) v Woolrych [2020] EWHC 3121 (Ch)
    Led by Olivier Kalfon. Successful challenge to the out of court appointment of administrators over energy companies on the basis that the floating charges upon which the appointments relied were unenforceable.
  • Goldtrail Travel v Aydin [2015] 1 BCLC 89 (Ch D)
    Led by Michael Gibbon KC. Claims brought by liquidator based on allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and dishonest assistance.
  • Mohammed Ghadami v Donegan [2014] EWHC 4448
    Successfully resisted an appeal against a decision dismissing an application to set aside a statutory demand.
  • Led by Olivier Kalfon.  Advised joint trustees of an insolvent estate of a deceased on a claim under section 339 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
  • Instructed for trial in a claim concerning the beneficial ownership of a property and section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986. Matter settled.
  • Application to set aside a statutory demand on the basis the debt was disputed.
  • Advice in relation to a disputed under sections 234, 236 and 238 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
  • Instructed in relation to claims against former directors of accompany under sections 212, 214 and 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
  • Instructed to resist a winding up petition on the basis that the debt was disputed.

Real Estate

Hannah has a broad property practice, her experience includes: restrictive covenants; rights of way; nuisance; beneficial ownership; possession actions (landlord and tenant, trespasser, and mortgage); and the full range of commercial and residential landlord and tenant matters, including LTA 1954 Act business tenancy renewals, lease/licence categorization, breach of covenants, surrender, forfeiture, frustration, break notices, and breach of covenant.

  • Anthony Armbrister, Cyril Armbrister v Marion Lightbourn & Ors [2012] UKPC 40
    Led by Carolyn Walton. Appeal to the Privy Council regarding title to two areas of land in the Bahamas.
  • Instructed for trial in a claim concerning the beneficial ownership of a property and section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986.  Matter settled.
  • Advising on tenant’s options following fire.
  • Led by James Aldridge KC.  Instructed in relation to the purported termination of a development agreement and arrears of rent under an associated lease.
  • Advice in relation to freezing injunctive relief obtained against mortgagee
  • Advising on leases and the validity thereof in the context of a partnership dispute and subsequent settlement agreement.
  • Advice in relation to a lost lease.
  • Advice on the existence of a right of way.
  • Instructed on an application for a new business tenancy.  Matter settled.
  • Advice on the legal basis of occupation and consequential matters.
  • Instructed in trial of a mortgage possession claim.  Matter settled.

Trusts

Hannah’s experience in these areas includes: creation of trusts, breach of trust, dishonest assistance, knowing receipt and trustee’s duties.

  • Wilkinson & Ors v J S Property Holdings Inc [2016] EWHC 1242 (Ch)
    Acted for the Second Defendant in a claim for a declaration that certain property was held on trust for the Claimants.
  • Led by David Mumford KC.  Acted in a dispute concerning the scope of a trustee’s duty to account to its beneficiaries.

Professional Negligence

Hannah’s has experience of professional negligence claims against solicitors and planning consultants.

  • Advised in relation to a claim against former solicitors for failure to register a strip of land.