Tim Akkouh was called to the Bar in 2004. He read law at the London School of Economics, where he was awarded a first class degree in 2001, and University College London, where he obtained an LLM in 2002 (obtaining the highest marks awarded that year in the restitution and international trust law papers).

Tim has a broad-based commercial chancery practice, with a particular emphasis on trusts, probate, insolvency, commercial and company matters. His reported cases include Gotham v Doodes [2007] 1 WLR 86 (CA) and Halabi v London Borough of Camden (The Times, 25 March 2008).

Tim spent much of 2008 and 2009 acting for one of the defendant trustees in the Jersey based Alhamrani v Alhamrani litigation. The case is currently stayed, having reached the 102^nd day of trial. Tim also acted for the claimant beneficiaries in the Bermudan Wingate v Butterfield Trust (Bermuda) Limited litigation. Tim often writes on legal issues, and is the co-author of Trusts Law (1^st edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Tim regularly appears in insolvency matters for office-holders, creditors and debtors. He is a contributor to Personal Insolvency: Law and Practice (LexisNexis, 2008) and has recent experience of the following:

• appearing on an administrator’s application for Berkeley Applegate relief and directions as to the distribution of a £0.75 million fund;
• appearing on undervalue and preference claims;
• conducting private examinations;
• opposing a bankruptcy restrictions application;
• appearing on an application for the re-direction of a bankrupt’s mail; and
• acting on a successful appeal against the rescission of a bankruptcy order.

Tim’s recent experience of commercial and company matters includes:

• conflict of law issues (including making and defending applications for stays under the common law and Regulation 44/2001);
• defending a challenge to a loan agreement under s. 140A of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (the new ‘unfair relationship’ ground); and
• seeking a declaration of non-liability in respect of an intimated contractual claim.

Tim was appointed to the Attorney General’s panel of counsel to the Crown (C list) in April 2008.