Barristers Dov Ohrenstein

Dov Ohrenstein

Year of Call:
1995

Education:
Selwyn College Cambridge

Email:
dov@radcliffechambers.com

Commercial Chancery section, The Legal 500, 2009:
"Ohrenstein is appreciated for his ‘clear view at the outset as to the chances of success‘"

Dov Ohrenstein's practice focuses on litigation and dispute resolution in the following areas:-

  • Chancery (Commercial): Banking, Companies, Guarantees, Insolvency, Mortgages
  • Chancery (Traditional): Fiduciaries, Inheritance Act, Partnerships, Trusts, Wills & Probate
  • Commercial: Contracts including sale of goods and agency, Consumer Law, Credit & Hire agreements, Employment (including confidentiality agreements, restraint of trade)
  • Professional Negligence: Including solicitors' and accountants' negligence
  • Property: Landlord and Tenant, Property torts, Real Property

  • Publications:

  • The Civil Court Practice 2010 ("The Green Book"), co-author of the "Companies" section.
  • Butterworths Law of Limitation, co-author of the "Equity" section.
  • Halsbury's Laws of England (4th ed, Reissue), co-author of chapter titled "Money"
  • The Law Society Gazette, author of numerous articles and writer of Chancery Law Update
  • Appeared in The College of Law Commercial Litigation "Banking Update" and "Insolvency Law Update" professional development videos
  • U2 Coach Internet Further Education provider of "Lifting the Corporate Veil" course
  • CPDcast.com Provider of Podcast "Reflective Losses & Derivative Claims"
  • CPDcast.com Provider of Podcast "Chancery Update - Yeoman's Row v Cobbe"
  • Contributor to Journal of International Business & Finance Law
  • Contributor to New Law Journal
  • Copies of various articles and lecture notes by Dov can be downloaded from Publications

  • Recent Cases:

  • Lui v Chong [2010] EWCA Civ 398 (assents, bare trusts, gifts, intention and beneficial interests)
  • Basinghall Finance PLC v Butler [2009] EWCA Civ 1262 (mortgages, assignment, securitisation, privity, Consumer Credit)
  • Summers v Kitson [2006] EWHC 3655 (Ch) (rectification of deeds of appointment)
  • Clement Johnson v Estate of Harrington Johnson [2006] EWHC 2568, LTL 21/9/07 (wills, knowledge and approval)
  • Foster Orr v Colliss [2005] All ER (D) 26 (Jun)(will rectification, Administration of Justice Act 1982 s.20)
  • Saxon v Moore LTL 13/1/05(real property, land registration, rectification)
  • Wright v Hodgkinson [2004] EWHC 3091 (Ch), [2005] WTLR 435, LTL 1/11/2004 (equity, undue influence, setting aside gifts)
  • Mitchell McFarlane & Partners Ltd v Foremans Ltd LTL 18/12/2002 (insolvency, assignments, company law)
  • Dov's recent international work has ranged from a multi million pound Jersey private equity fund dispute to a claim concerning the beneficial ownership and control of a British Virgin Islands Company

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