Areas of Practice
Financial Services & Securities Regulation
Consumer Credit
Profile
Also a Professor of Law at King's College London, Eva has an advisory practice in the areas of consumer credit and financial services law.
As for consumer credit, she has been co-editor of Sweet and Maxwell's Encyclopedia of Consumer Credit for over 30 years and advises on Consumer Credit Acts 1974 and 2006 (and other related) issues arising under credit and hire agreements. She was on the DTI's Consumer Credit Steering Group which led to the Consumer Credit Act 2006 and was an expert on the UK's delegation to UNCITRAL's Convention on Receivables Financing (Vienna and New York: 1997-2001).
Being co-author, with John Powell QC, of Sweet and Maxwell's Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law she has a particular expertise in the application of the Financial Services and Markets Act to investment business activity.
She occasionally delivers public lectures including recently in London (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies), Cambridge, Moscow and Abuja.
She is consistently top rated under Financial Services in the Chambers Guide.
The Directories
Consistently top rated for Financial Services and Consumer Credit. 'Professor Eva Lomnika continues to attract applause. As editor of the definitive encyclopaedia on consumer credit, she is widely regarded as one of the most clued-up practitioners in the field.' - Chambers Uk 2010 'Eva Lomnicka, a law professor at King's College London, continues to win enthusiastic acclaim as the leading junior in our tables. She has particular expertise in consumer credit law and is co-author of a leading guide to financial services law.' - Chambers & Partners, 2005 She won rave reviews from City practitioners. They found she "added value, was diligent, imaginative and, most importantly, right." - Chambers Directory, 2003-2004 She is "academically rigorous" and "knows so much more about the legislation than anyone in the universe", which enables her to "think ahead and bring to bear changes in the pipeline in her response." - Chambers Directory, 2002-2003 Clients think that she is "simply excellent" because "she has everything at her fingertips - there's no need to lay it out because she is there with you", while peers acknowledge that "there aren't many who come near her in level of experience." - Chambers Directory, 2001-2002
Publications
Palmer's Company Law
Sweet and Maxwell
looseleaf, editor of Part 11 (Investor Protection)
The Law of Personal Property Security
OUP 2007
With Professors Beale and Bridge and Ms Gullifer
Modern Banking Law
OUP: now 4th Ed, 2006
(with Profs Ellinger and Hooley)
The Financial Services and Markets Act: An Annotated Guide
Sweet & Maxwell 2002
Encyclopaedia of Consumer Credit Law
Sweet & Maxwell 1975
(looseleaf, General Editor)
Encyclopaedia of Financial Services Law
Sweet & Maxwell 1987
(looseleaf, co-author with John L. Powell QC)
Languages
Polish (working knowledge)
Further Information
COMBAR FSLA (Advisory Board)
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