At 2TG our people are hard-working, forward-thinking and approachable. We believe our supportive culture is one of our greatest strengths.
With the set comprising around 60 barristers, we know each other well and work effectively together. We often operate in large teams with clients. Our practice management team is modern and commercial, matching barrister experience thoughtfully to clients’ requirements.
At 2TG our barristers are expert in a broad range of complementary practice areas and we enjoy repeat instructions from a variety of loyal clients.
Practised advocates from the start, all our Silks and the vast majority of our Junior barristers are recognised as leaders in their chosen fields. Many of us are at the forefront of shaping the law in our specialist areas and we pride ourselves in having excellent industry knowledge.
At 2TG our barristers have excellent experience acting across a range of industry sectors and we are able to offer advice in an informed and commercial context.
Our combination of practice area excellence and industry expertise means we possess real insight into the commercial realities facing our clients operating in these areas. Secondment plays an important part of our commitment to developing our skills and understanding.
2TG is home to award-winning accredited mediators, arbitrators, adjudicators and experts with considerable experience of alternative dispute resolution.
Our barristers are also skilled as advocates in different alternative dispute resolution procedures and work strategically with clients to understand their commercial objectives, and then to resolve litigation as cost-effectively and expeditiously as possible.
Work with an international dimension forms a significant part of many barristers’ work at 2TG.
We appear in international courts and arbitral tribunals all over the world, frequently acting on complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. We are particularly well-known for managing cross border litigation on matters of jurisdiction and applicable law and appear regularly in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.
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Stuart acted for Dawsons Bus and Coach, the UK’s leading provider of finance in the truck and bus market, in an application for summary judgment in relation to a £12m claim made by Last Bus Limited (trading as Dublin Bus). The claim related to the supply of 30 Mercedes Benz Tourismo Coaches by Evo Bus (UK) Limited (a UK subsidiary of Daimler AG) where the Claimant alleged that the coaches were defective.
Dawson Bus and Coach supplied the coaches to Last Bus on hire purchase terms that included a term that excluded all representations “implied by law”. The case is a rare case of the application of the reasonableness test in Section 11 of the Unfair Contracts Terms Act 1977 in a summary judgment application and the judge considered the courts’ approach to that test in the context of commercial agreements between parties of broadly equal bargaining strength. The judge endorsed the previous judgments of the Court of Appeal where it has been held that in most circumstances the court should not interfere with commercial agreements on the grounds of reasonableness (see Watford Electronics Limited v Sanderson CFL Limited [2001] EWCA Civ 317).
Andrew Baker J also held that the phrase “terms implied by law” was a clear reference to terms implied by statute and that it was not restricted to terms implied by common law.
Stuart was instructed by Simon Hobbs and Tom Holden of Freeths LLP in Milton Keynes.
The judgment is reported at https://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2022/2971.html&query=(Last)+AND+(Bus) and was also reported in the Irish press https://www.independent.ie/business/dublin-coach-sues-daimler-benz-unit-over-10m-loss-and-damage-42180765.html