TEN OLD SQUARE - Key Persons
David Schmitz has a varied Chancery and Commercial practice, with particular experience on property litigation and on professional negligence cases involving property. In addition, he deals with trusts, landlord and tenant, pensions, insolvency, undue influence cases, cohabitation disputes, partnerships and charities.
He is a qualified mediator and has been a mediation coach for ADR Chambers.
From 2010 to 2014 he was a Borough Councillor in Haringey, London and served on the planning committee for three years.
He is currently on the panel which reviews applications made to the Bar Pro Bono Unit for assistance in litigation.
David Schmitz is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 16939] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [BMIF Ref 2360/024] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. He is registered for VAT under the reference 446971904.
James MacDougald is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 22569] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [BMIF Ref 2360/071] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. He is registered for VAT under the reference 170343630.
Jeremy Callman is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 27776] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [BMIF Ref 2360/022] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. He is registered for VAT under the reference 564625133.
Jonathan Gavaghan has a specialist chancery and commercial practice with particular experience in partnership / LLP disputes, commercial disputes and property law. Company law (including breach of fiduciary duty claims and shareholder disputes) is a further area in which he specialises.
He was called to the Bar in 1992.
He studied law at Oxford University where he obtained a first-class degree. Top of his year in Land Law, he subsequently obtained a BCL and returned to Worcester College, Oxford as a visiting tutor in constitutional law.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He was appointed as a Recorder in 2018.
Practice Areas
Partnerships & LLPs
Jonathan is recognised in the Legal Directories as being one of the leading junior counsel in the partnership / LLP field. He has dealt with numerous partnership and LLP disputes and is regularly instructed by managing partners of firms as well as individual partners. He has acted in disputes for solicitors, accountants, farmers, doctors, dentists, veterinary surgeons and stone masons to name a few.
He has extensive experience in dealing with partner exits and team moves both in an advisory capacity and dealing with litigation and injunctions: including issues of enforceability of post-termination restrictions and breach of fiduciary duty.
He also has very substantial experience in arbitration matters. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and accepts appointments as an arbitrator.
He was elected to the Committee of the Association of Partnership Practitioners in 2020.
Jonathan Gavaghan is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 29030] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [BMIF Ref 2360/025] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. He is registered for VAT under the reference 648945679.
Ken Handley retired as a Judge, of the New South Wales Court of Appeal in January 2012, after 22 years. This included the maximum possible time as an Acting Judge between 2007 and 2012.
While on the New South Wales Court of Appeal he also served as a part time Judge of the Fiji Court of Appeal from 1996 to 2003, and as a part time Judge of Fiji's Supreme Court from 2003 to 2009.
Prior to his appointment to the bench Ken practised at the Sydney Bar for 30 years, 17 as Queen's Counsel. He was also a member of the English and Fiji Bars. He had a general commercial, equity and appellate practice and appeared in intellectual property, banking, insurance, and shipping cases. He appeared frequently in the High Court of Australia, and in many cases in the Privy Council between 1967 and 1986 in appeals from Australia and Fiji. He also acted as an arbitrator and appeared in domestic arbitrations.
After completing pupillage with Francis Barlow QC and Simon Taube QC, Kevin Farrelly was a member of Ten Old Square from 1993 to 2017, specialising principally in property litigation.
In 2017, he took up a full time academic position at the University of Law (formerly the College of Law) in Bloomsbury, where he is a Tutor and course designer focusing on the civil side of the Bar Professional Training Course.