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Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquires@20essex.uk
t: +44 20 8133 3810

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

enquires@20essex.uk
t: +45 36988379

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26/06/2018

A will o’ the wisp recedes: the rule against reflective loss applies to claims by an unsecured creditor

Carlos Sevilleja Garcia v Marex Financial Limited [2018] EWCA Civ.1468

David Lewis QC and Richard Greenberg report on a significant judgment concerning the rule against reflective loss (the “RL Rule”).

The Court of Appeal has resolved the “as yet undecided question whether the [RL Rule] applies to claims by unsecured creditors who are not shareholders of the relevant company” [1]. The RL Rule now applies to claims by any unsecured creditor of a company.

  • The rule against reflective loss bars claims against wrongdoers by any creditors of a company where their loss reflects the company’s loss.
  • The rule applies irrespective of the creditors’ cause of action against the wrongdoer, instead focusing on the nature of the loss.

The only exception to the rule is where the wrongdoer has directly caused it to be impossible for the company to bring a claim against the wrongdoer.

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David Lewis KC Richard Greenberg
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