Prior to completing pupillage with 3PB Barristers, Ashley Blood-Halvorsen had a career at Thomson Reuters working primarily in regulatory compliance with an emphasis on financial services industry. Her work encompassed both UK and EU legislation. Her experience includes FSMA 2000, Solvency II Directive and the Credit Consumer Act 1974.
She represents banks and financial institutions at interim hearings. Her practice includes:
Ashley also regularly represents lenders and suppliers in consumer credit and mis-selling claims. Her practice includes the new wave of PPI claims (including the unfair relationship s140A CCA 1974) which often involve arguments over limitation. She also has experience in claims for alleged mis-selling of solar panels pursuant to section 75 CCA 1974.
Ashley regularly appears in insolvency hearings such as the winders, bankruptcy hearings, costs arising out of those hearing and application to set aside statutory demands.
Her insolvency experience includes applications to annul bankruptcy orders in the context of matrimonial financial remedies.
During her pupillage she assisted her supervisor in the reported case of Singh v Hicken [2018] EWHC 3277 (Ch) who represented Mr Hicken. Singh v Hicken concerned a challenge to trustee’s remuneration. Mr Justice Nugee (as he was then) considered the approach to be adopted to such applications, including the applicability of the provisions in the Insolvency Practice Direction dealing with remuneration applications.
Ashley has particular expertise in the formation and the interpretation of contracts. She writes commercial analyses for LexisNexis such as ‘Language trumps purpose in relational contracts (Quantum Advisory Ltd v Quantum Actuarial LLP)’.
She also has a specific interest in matters which allege repudiatory breaches. Other experience relating to formation includes jurisdictional disputes and governing law clauses particularly between parties in England and Scotland.
She has specific experience in the following industries:
Her experience includes proceedings that involve ostensible, implied, and apparent authority. She recently advised on such matters against a well-known fintech company.
Ashley appears in procedural matters including interim applications and case management hearings such as:
Ashley Blood-Halvorsen analyses for Lexis Nexis the case of Quantum Advisory Ltd v Quantum Actuarial LLP [2022] EWHC 1423 (Ch), which reminds us of the importance of clear comprehensive drafting in relational contracts.
This article was first published by LexisPSL on 24 June 2022.
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3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist commercial barrister Ashley Blood-Halvorsen (pictured here) has written for Lexis Nexis on the recent case of Quantum Advisory Ltd v Quantum Actuarial LLP [2023] EWHC 1338 (Ch) in which a result was reached through judicial guidance rather than a declaration by the court. The case in question involved the court interpreting an existing agreement between the parties, with the claimant seeking to establish an “implied obligation of good faith”. The...
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