Mary Stokes

 
Called: 1989
 
 

Profile

Litigation and advisory work in company law, corporate insolvency, corporate finance, financial services, partnership (including LLPs).

Education

Brasenose College, Oxford and Harvard Law School

Degrees and awards

  • BA Jurisprudence (Oxon); BCL (Oxon); LLM (Harvard)
  • Vinerian Scholarship for the top First in the BCL in 1980
  • John F Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard Law School, 1980-1981

Career

  • Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford and CUF Lecturer, University of Oxford, 1982-1988
  • Visiting Professor at Boston University School of Law, USA, 1987
  • Called to the Bar, 1989
  • Practised at Erskine Chambers since 1990 (with a career break from 2007 to September 2008)

Publications

Assistant and then Consulting Editor of Butterworths Company Law Cases, 1983-2006

Recent cases

  • Hague v Nam Tai Electronics [2006] UKPC 52
    appeal from the CA of the British Virgin Islands to the Privy Council involving the construction of articles of association
  • Equitable Life v Ernst & Young and others (2005)
    acted for one of the executive directors of Equitable Life - the case settled after several months of trial
 
 
 
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