Seb Oram

Call 2007
Email seb.oram@3pb.co.uk
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Chancery, Property and Insolvency, Commercial

Seb is a member of our Property and Chancery practice group and of our Business and Commercial practice group. He focuses particularly on insolvency, real property and landlord and tenant 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.
He is an associate member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and a member of the Chancery Bar Association.

After reading law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Seb completed an LL.M. (by research) at the University of Bristol, investigating the impact of European Community law on the investment practices of institutional investors. The central focus of his thesis was the manner in which Directives enacted under the European Commission's Financial Services Action Plan and Company Law Action Plan affect the behaviour of institutional investors in their capacity as shareholders of their portfolio companies.

Technology and Construction

Seb is a member of our Technology and Construction practice group. 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.

Seb is a contributing author to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ ISurv platform, providing practitioner-focussed legal analysis and updates.

He has acted as junior to a senior member of Chambers in High Court construction litigation.

Noteworthy cases

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

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
Associate member of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (“R3”).

Languages

French (fluent spoken and written)
Spanish (fluent spoken and written)
Italian (good working knowledge)

Notable Cases

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).