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Mary Barrett

Associate

Mary advises a broad range of individual and corporate clients in relation to commercial disputes.

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About

Mary advises a broad range of individual and corporate clients in relation to a wide range of commercial disputes. 

Mary has experience of the following: 

  • Disputes involving breach of contract, misrepresentation, breach of warranty, directors’ and officers’ duties, professional negligence and debt recovery and enforcement. 
  • Advising on insurance coverage disputes. 

Mary’s clients operate across a range of sectors including banking, retail, technology and food services. 

Experience

  • Acting for a large food retailer/bakery in relation to a business interruption insurance dispute in which the claimant sought business interruption losses related to and resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. 
  • Assisting with the team defending a non-executive chairman in a claim brought by the joint liquidators of a major retail group. This significant case was featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2023 and is likely to result in a development of the principles of directors’ duties. 

Our thinking

  • Claudine Morgan and Mary Barrett write for New Law Journal on liability for costs on discontinuation

    Claudine Morgan

    In The Press

  • Liability for Costs on Discontinuation: When may the Court deviate from the ‘Usual Order’?

    Claudine Morgan

    Insights

  • Trade Credit Insurance – Protection, Economic Instability and Increased Demand

    Mary Barrett

    Insights

  • World Refugee Day 2023

    Sarah Higgins

    Insights

  • My Pro Bono Story

    Sarah Farrelly

    Insights

  • Levelling Up: The Government’s plans to crackdown on ‘rogue’ landlords

    Mary Barrett

    Quick Reads

  • Who will carry the risk? Professional indemnity crisis in construction

    Mary Barrett

    Insights

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