Amy Mullen
Amy has experience working on a broad variety of legal disputes, ranging from contractual disputes (including breach of contract and breach of restrictive covenant claims across a variety of different sectors and industries), unfair prejudice claims, directors and shareholder disputes, as well as various GDPR, defamation and intellectual property claims.
Amy’s experience ranges from assisting client’s with pre-action advice and settlements to managing cases all the way through to trial. Amy has worked on cases of various values and complexities in County Courts, the High Court as well as the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Notably, Amy was part of the team representing UK Trucks Claim Limited within the Supreme Court case R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and others [2023] UKSC 28, a landmark case concerning the enforceability of litigation funding arrangements.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2020
Experience
- Weightmans LLP (2018 - Present)
Qualifications
- Law (LLB) (2015)
- LPC (2016)
Education
- Newcastle University (2012-2015)
- Northumbria University (2015-2016)
2 Contributions by Amy Mullen
PRACTICE NOTES
Section 236 Insolvency Act 1986 investigations, equitable tracing (including substitution and backwards tracing), and practical considerations for insolvency office-holders’ asset recovery
Businesses may either suffer fraud or be used by their own management to commit it. In the first scenario, corporate property is diverted. In the second, the enterprise may trade partly legitimately or lack any real business. Either way, insolvency may follow. Once appointed, the office-holder will seek to uncover events, trace assets and recover value for creditors.
Investigation and enquiry into a company’s assets
After a decision is taken to appoint an insolvency practitioner (IP), the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986) grants powers allowing the office-holder to probe the company’s affairs and investigate its dealings, then gather in its assets.
Under IA 1986, s 236, an administrator, administrative receiver, liquidator or provisional liquidator may ask the court to order certain persons to supply information about the company and/or its dealings, produce any books, papers or other records in their possession or under their control concerning the company, and, if needed, attend a private examination before the court:
any company officer
any person known or...
Restructuring & Insolvency
PRECEDENTS
Deed of Litigation Co‑operation between Co‑Claimants: Joint Solicitors’ Instructions, Cost and Adverse Cost Sharing, Damages Allocation and Binding Barrister Determination (England and Wales)
This Deed is dated [ date ]
Parties
[ name ], of [ address ], [ company number ] (‘A Limited’)
[ name ], of [ address ], [ company number ] (‘B Limited’)
together the ‘Claimants’.
Background
A Limited and B Limited are Claimants in High Court proceedings in the [ Chancery Division ], under Claim No. [ insert number ], against the Defendant[s]. The Solicitors act for the Claimants in the Litigation.
The Claimants were previously wholly-owned subsidiaries of [ Z limited ]. Following the commencement of the Litigation, B Limited ceased to be within [ Z Limited’s ] ownership and is now controlled by new owners.
The Claimants propose to enter into an agreement governing the conduct of the Litigation, with particular regard to the apportionment of legal costs, the settlement of liabilities incurred, and the distribution of any benefits realised...
Dispute Resolution
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