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City lawyer welcomes Employment Tribunal changes

18 September, 2020 admin Blog Press releases

A City of London-based employment solicitor has welcomed reforms to Employment Tribunals, announced by the Government. Kate Boguslawska, a Partner …

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City solicitor says quarantine restrictions mean employees travelling overseas for family crises could be entitled to 28 extra days off

8 June, 2020 admin Blog Kate Boguslawska, News, Press releases

A City of London-based employment solicitor has said employees facing family emergencies overseas could have to take up to four …

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Partner at City of London law firm says increased testing could be vital for employers facing multiple employees self-isolating following contact tracing

28 May, 2020 admin Blog Blog, Covid-19, Employment, Kate Boguslawska, News, Press releases

A Partner at City of London law firm, Carter Lemon Camerons LLP, has said that that increased levels of Coronavirus …

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) for employers and employees

16 March, 2020 admin Blog Blog, News, Press releases

The UK has moved from the ‘contain’ to the ‘delay’ phase of its response to coronavirus and has widened the …

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City law firm wins prestigious national legal award in recognition of its international services

14 March, 2019 Peter Bowers Blog Press releases

A City of London-based law firm has won a prestigious national legal award in recognition of the development of a …

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Kate Boguslawska, a City solicitor is going to Warsaw to attend the 2019 Belvedere Forum

6 March, 2019 Peter Bowers Blog News, Press releases

Kate Boguslawska, a City of London based solicitor will be visiting Warsaw to attend the prestigious Belvedere Forum to discuss …

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Seamus Smyth

Leading City solicitor visits South Africa to meet attorneys and clients

1 March, 2019 Peter Bowers Blog News, Press releases

Seamus Smyth, a City of London-based solicitor will be visiting South Africa in March to meet and advise clients and …

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Carter Lemon Camerons in the running for prestigious legal award

16 January, 2019 Peter Bowers Blog News, Press releases

We are delighted to have been named as finalists in the Business Development category of the Lexis Nexis Legal Awards …

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Neil Acheson-Gray discusses Wills on BBC Radio London

14 January, 2019 admin Blog Neil Acheson-Gray, News, Press releases

More than four in ten Greater London parents have not prepared a will according to Will Aid research. Neil Acheson-Gray …

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Heir Hunters

Substantial costs awarded against TV heir hunter as Carter Lemon Camerons LLP assists rightful beneficiaries in obtaining inheritance

13 November, 2018 Peter Bowers Blog News, Press releases

Lawyers from Carter Lemon Camerons LLP have assisted the rightful beneficiaries of an estate in securing the inheritance to which …

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Seamus Smyth
Seamus Smyth
Partner - Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

The Legal 500: Recommended lawyer 2020Seamus Smyth is head of litigation and arbitration. His practice is primarily commercial with an emphasis on arbitration, financial services and work for South African and Italian clients.

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His reported cases include RH Green & Silley Weir v BR (limitation period against 3rd party), de Bry v Fitzgerald (security for costs), Hartt v Newspaper Publishing (libel concerning a work by Michelangelo), Pearson v Sanders Witherspoon (valuation of loss of chance), Siebe Gorman v Pneupac (status of consent orders), Senate Electrical v NTL (liability of an employee for acquisition warranties) and Bendell v Smith & Others (a successful recovery action by a lender on a shared appreciation mortgage equity release – the only such case to go to trial).

Recently involved in enforcement of foreign arbitration awards, claims arising from the banking upheavals since 2007, a successful claim against a high street bank resulting from a banking error and a successful claim against estate administrators and their solicitors for wasting the estate funds on irresponsible litigation.

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Educated (BA, LLB, Wits) and first qualified as an attorney in South Africa, he requalified in England in 1977, took an LLM at UCL and a Diploma in International Arbitration at QM, and became an FCIArb. He is chairman of the British South African Law Association (for the second time), chairman of Michaelhouse UK Trust, a trustee of Global Leadership Foundation (UK), a former President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association and Trustee and President of Town Malling Cricket Club (established in 1827!).  He was until 2012 a Visiting Senior Lecturer in International Commercial Arbitration at London Metropolitan University.  When work and domesticity permit he plays some cricket and more golf (but – which is immediately obvious – not nearly enough).

011 568 5165 - SeamusSmyth@cartercamerons.com

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