Hannah Daly

During Pupillage, Hannah worked on a broad range of commercial disputes, including:

• Complex international trust dispute (ongoing) involving issues of foreign law, offshore company and procedural law, probate matters and complex evidential questions.
• Contractual dispute over a guarantor agreements for commercial loans intended for property development.
• Dubai arbitration concerning property insurance claims on a cotton manufacturing plant following an extensive fire.
• Appeal on whether ATE insurance is relevant for the purpose of assessing an application for security for costs: Premier Motorauctions v PwC & Lloyds [2017] EWCA Civ 1872.
• Drafting advice in pensions fraud claim as to identity and choice of defendant and appropriate legal route to remedy.
• LCIA Arbitration concerning construction of the arbitration clause and jurisdiction, commercial contracts and bribery/conspiracy.

Hannah has dealt with claims involving solicitors, financial advisers and insurance brokers both in her own right and during pupillage. Cases include:

• Solicitors negligence claim involving protracted prosecution of claim, miscalculated settlement range and truncated trial where the underlying claim was a residential construction dispute.
• Solicitors negligence claim on behalf of professional indemnity insurers where the firm was in run-off. Claim concerned failure to properly register charge on a property.
• Insurance brokers’ negligence claim for failure to procure adequate property and business interruption/gross profit cover where industrial unit damaged by fire.
• Advising in claim against pensions adviser for negligent/fraudulent advice as to offshore pensions scheme.

Hannah has experience of solicitors’ and barristers’ disciplinary proceedings, including:

• Two-week hearing before a five-panel Bar Disciplinary Tribunal in 2018 raising issues of conflicts of interest and the duties of barristers when not acting expressly in their capacity as barristers.
• Hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in 2017 concerning unlawful CFAs and disclosure of documents.

Hannah has experience of insurance disputes in a range of matters, including:

• Two-week trial in the Commercial Court concerning which of two policy years certain claims fell into: Euro Pools Plc v Royal and Sun Alliance insurance Plc [2018] EWHC 46 (Comm).
• Advising insurer as to coverage in fixtures and chattels in dilapidation dispute.
• Advising professional indemnity insurer as to extent of coverage where solicitors firm were in run-off.

During pupillage, Hannah worked on domestic and international human rights cases, including:

• Application by worldwide internet-based encyclopedia to the European Court of Human Rights to lift a ban imposed on its publication in Turkey following the 2016 State of Emergency.
• Application under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to retrieve documents from the Police concerning the murder of an Irish lawyer in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.