Seb Oram

Call 2007
Email seb.oram@3pb.co.uk
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Overview

Seb is a Chancery, Commercial and Construction Law barrister. He focuses particularly on insolvency, real property / landlord and tenant, and construction law. He is a member of the Chancery Bar Association and the Society of Construction Law.

He has considerable experience of advocacy in the County Court and High Court, and has been instructed as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal. He also regularly represents parties in Chancery and commercial mediations and in the residential property tribunal.

In his construction law practice, he has experience in bringing and defending construction claims and, in particular, in drafting and cross-examining on schedules of defects. He also advises parties in relation to disputes arising under the common-form contract suites (in particular JCT and NEC contracts), and acts for parties in adjudications under the 1996 Act and the enforcement of adjudicator awards.

Noteworthy cases

• Stupples v. Stupples & Co (High Wycombe) Ltd  [2012] EWHC 1226 (Ch) (defence of claim for agent’s fees, based on agent’s conflict of interest)
• Courtenay Gate Lawns Ltd v. Lee [2012] UKUT 125 (Lands Chamber) (resisting application to discharge restrictive covenants in a long lease, raising a point of principle as to the effect of a landlord’s conduct in granting subsequent leases in different form)
• Asiansky Television Plc & Anor v Khanzada & Ors [2011] EWHC 2831 (QB) (professional negligence claim in relation to the conduct of litigation)
• Imageview Management Ltd v. Jack [2009] EWCA Civ 63; [2009] 2 All ER 666; [2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep 436; [2009] 1 BCLC 724; [2009] Bus LR 1034; The Times, 24 March 2009 (extent of a fiduciary’s disentitlement to remuneration following breach of duty).

Publications

“Extensions of Time and Damages for Delay - Recent Developments” Paper D148 presented to the Society of Construction Law (October 2012)

Contributing author to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ ISurv platform (chapters on “Regulated Public Procurement in the UK”, and on the 2011 amendments to the JCT Intermediate contracts).

“Forfeiture of fiduciary remuneration following breach of duty: from contract to conscience” [2010] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 95.

Professional memberships

• Member of the Chancery Bar Association
• Member of the Society of Construction Law
• Associate member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (“R3”).