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Vondez Phipps

Call 2014
Telephone 020 7831 0222
Email vondez.phipps@42br.com

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Vondez Phipps

Call 2014
Telephone 020 7831 0222
Email vondez.phipps@42br.com

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Vondez has a civil practice which focuses primarily on Business and Property matters. He has a busy paper-based practice, and regularly appears before County Courts and the Companies Court, and has appeared in the High Court as sole counsel. Vondez is regularly instructed by small and medium enterprises, commercial and residential landlords, local authorities and individuals.

Vondez is known for his detailed knowledge of the law, forensic case preparation and sensible and practical advice to clients. He has been described by a high court judge as an “extremely impressive” advocate who “has a strong future at the Bar”.

Business Law

Contractual Disputes

Vondez is experienced in business-to-business and business-to-consumer contractual disputes, and is frequently instructed to advise, draft pleadings and represent clients in matters involving:

Complex issues of construction of contractual documents;
Formation of contracts, including acceptance by conduct;
Commercial and other agents, including claims for commissions;
Misrepresentation;
Unfair terms in consumer contracts, and Consumer Rights Act claims;
Sale of goods and supply of services;
Jurisdictional issues;
Guarantees; and
Multiple remedies, including specific performance and injunctions;

Company and Partnership

Vondez’s practice encompasses matters involving alleged breaches of fiduciary or statutory duties by directors, shareholder rights and remedies, the disqualification of directors, and the restoration of companies to the Register of Companies.

Debt and Insolvency

Vondez regularly appears in the Companies Court and County Courts, representing clients in debt-related and corporate insolvency and individual bankruptcy matters. He regularly advises, drafts pleadings and represents clients in matters involving:

Money claims;
Winding-up and bankruptcy petitions, including restraining the presentation of a petition based on disputed debts in statutory demands;
Mortgage possessions;
Debt recovery by way of charging orders and orders for sale;
Enforcement issues, including applications for committal.

Banking and Finance

Vondez is currently assisting the Dame Linda Dobbs Review inconsidering whether the issues relating to the HBOS Reading scandal were investigated and appropriately reported to authorities at the time by Lloyds Banking Group, following its acquisition of HBOS.

Professional Negligence

Vondez also advises, drafts pleadings and represents clients on matters including allegations of professional negligence.

Recent cases

PP (A Company) v TC (A Company)– Representing the Claimant in a contractual dispute arising out of reparative construction works.
K (A Company) v BB (A Company) – Appeal against an order refusing to set aside default judgment in a contractual dispute claim.
P v PL, NL – Recovering rent arrears by way of a Final Charging Order in a case involving allegations of fraud and severance of a joint tenancy.
RB (A London Borough) v AH – Representing a local authority in a long-running possession claim and appeal, raising issues of mental capacity and contemporaneous medical evidence.

News and articles

Jennifer Youngs and Vondez Phipps, ‘Drawing the Line: case management and allegations of judicial bias in the family courts’, Family Law Week (22 June 2017)

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Areas of Expertise

Qualifications & Awards

LLB, University of London (First Class)
BPTC, Kaplan Law School (Very Competent)
LLM, Jurisprudence and Human Rights, QMUL (Distinction)
Lord Denning Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn
BPTC Scholarship, Kaplan Holborn College
LLM Laws Prize, Queen Mary University of London

Chambers are delighted to welcome Vondez Phipps and Jennifer Youngs as full tenants of Chambers

We are delighted to welcome Vondez Phipps and Jennifer Youngs as full tenants of Chambers on 1st October following successful completion of their pupillage. We wish them a very successful career at the Bar.

Published: 6th Oct 2017

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