Call 1989, Inner Temple
LLB (Hons), University College London
Samuel works on commercial litigation/arbitration (contracts, banking, insurance & re-insurance, shipping (dry) and commercial fraud), as well as Jurisdictional disputes, Private international law (conflicts) and Japanese law.
Defending claims brought on guarantees. In the field of banking his specialties include the defence of claims brought by banks, particularly against small to medium sized businesses (those with an annual turnover of up to £50 million) where facilities are secured with guarantees and/or legal charges over the personal property of directors or shareholders.
Samuel has acted against almost every bank in the UK including Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Halifax/Bank of Scotland, Nat West, RBS, and many others both in the UK and abroad. Samuel successfully defended 14 applications for a bankruptcy petition against a single party brought by RBS Invoice Finance, and is currently involved in a claim against a major Indian bank for deceit by the President of the bank.
In the field of insurance his specialties: include coverage disputes under legal expenses insurance and/or professional indemnity, & maritime umbrella policies.
Syndicate Bank v Dansingani 2012 Chancery Division The Defendants and their company are pursuing defences and cross-claims, against sums due under guarantees, and secured by a legal charge, for deceit by the president of the bank, inducing them to enter the legal charge. The bank unsuccessfully spent 3 days trying to strike out these cross-claims in December 2013.
TICC v Cosco (UK) Limited 2001 December 5, Court of Appeal (successful claim by a freight forwarder for repayment of post season surcharges imposed by an international carrier of goods by sea and paid to its UK agent under duress)
Import Car Specialists Limited v. Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary & Others 2001 QBD (various claims against multiple defendants involving the recovery and re-sale in the UK of cars originally stolen in Japan worth about £60 million)
In Re Crookshank Limited 2000 Administrative Court (various claims against multiple defendants involving the recovery and re-sale in the UK of cars originally stolen in Japan worth about £4 million)
Casio Computers Ltd v. Sayo & Others 1998 Ch D (a fraud of about $100 million involving 20 defendants in multiple jurisdictions)
Jyske Bank (Gibraltar) Ltd v Spjeldnaes & Others 1996 Ch D (a fraud of about £70 million involving 30 defdendants in multiple jurisdictions)
In Re a Company (No 62 of 1995) 1996 Times 15 February (a technical point of procedure in presenting petitions to wind-up UK companies)
1990-91 Faculty of law, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan (Japanese Ministry of Education Award Scholarship).
1989-90 Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan (Japanese Ministry of Education Award Scholarship).
