Abigail Hall is a senior associate in the Dispute Resolution team. She has extensive litigation experience, including in high-value commercial and contractual disputes, intellectual property litigation, shareholder and director disputes, civil fraud, and disputes involving cross-jurisdictional and offshore issues.
She is experienced in acting for clients in obtaining or opposing freezing injunctions and has worked on a number of civil claims involving allegations of criminal conduct. Abigail's practice also includes insolvency litigation, acting for liquidators and other insolvency office holders in asset recovery proceedings.
Abigail regularly advises on complex, multi-jurisdictional matters and has experience of proceedings in offshore jurisdictions, including Guernsey and the Cayman Islands.
Areas of expertise:
- Civil Fraud
- Intellectual Property Disputes
- Shareholder and Director Disputes
- Commercial and Contract Disputes
- Insolvency Litigation
- Cross-Border and Offshore Litigation
Recent experience
High-Value and Complex Commercial Disputes
- Acting for an employee inventor in High Court proceedings seeking compensation under s.40 of the Patent Act 1977
- Acting for a private equity fund in a series of complex contractual disputes.
Shareholder and Director Disputes
- Acting for directors/shareholders in proceedings to protect their company from the actions of co-directors and to remove deadlock at board and shareholder level. The matter involved parallel proceedings before the Royal Court in Guernsey relating to a shareholder trust.
Insolvency and Asset Recovery
- Acting for a liquidator of a Cayman Islands company in proceedings to recover misappropriated funds.
Civil Fraud and Injunctive Relief
- Acting on an innovative and successful application to set aside a fraudulently obtained consent order.
- Acting for an individual accused of conspiracy to breach freezing injunctions in order to evade judgment debts.
- Acting on a successful application at first instance to discharge an injunction for breach of the duty to provide full and frank disclosure.
Contempt and Enforcement
- Acting for the Applicant in committal proceedings in the High Court arising out of the Respondent's deployment of forged documents in court proceedings.
Memberships
- London Solicitors Litigation Association
- Young Fraud Lawyers Association
