Stuart Nicol - Called To The Bar - 1994

In addition to my Credit Hire practice, I also have a diverse commercial practice in the fields of Insurance Law Intellectual Property & Media Law, obtaining and defending Injunctive relief and more recently claims involving Cryptocurrencies.

I was junior counsel with Richard Spearman QC in the seminal decision by the Court of Appeal of Dunnage v. UK Insurance [2015] EWCA Civ 673. This case is the leading authority of the defence of insanity in Civil claims.

In my Intellectual Property and Media Law practice I have represented household names such as David Essex, “The Village People”​ and Bruce Foxton of “The Jam”​. I successfully obtained interim injunctive relief against Bauer Publications Limited in the highly unusual case of breach of a House of Lords anonymity order: B v. Bauer Publications Limited [2022] EMLR 8

I have considerable experience in obtaining and defending applications for interim injunctive relief especially national and international freezing orders. In Xhosa v. Multi Circuit Boards [2014] EWHC 1286 where I successfully obtained numerous national and international injunctive orders including a Passport Impoundment Order.

In the field of Cryptocurrencies, I have successfully obtained interim injunctions against persons unknown and identified parties where there have been Bitcoin scams. In the summer of 2024 before Mrs. Justice Joanna Smith I obtained Norwich Pharmacal Orders against two Cryptocurrency Exchanges outside of the jurisdiction and Freezing Injunctions against persons unknown.