Description

This seminar examines various areas where a good faith/honesty standard has been imposed to regulate inter-creditor conduct and consider the justifications (or otherwise) for such a development, particularly in light of traditional hostility to such concepts in the banking law field generally. The seminar will also consider the extent to which these disparate examples of inter-creditor good faith can be, and should, be subsumed within a more generalized good faith or abuse of rights doctrine.

About The Speaker

Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Commercial and Corporate Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College and has degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge, Brasenose College, Oxford and Harvard Law School. After a period of time at the English Bar, he moved to a fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge, followed by seven years as a Senior Lecturer at The University of Auckland, returning to Oxford in 2012 to take up his current post. Together with Professor Peter Ellinger, he is the editor of the latest edition of Ellinger’s Modern Banking Law (OUP, 2011) and is a contributor of a new chapter on syndicated lending for the forthcoming edition of Paget’s Law of Banking (LexisNexis, 2014). Christopher’s teaching and research interests focus on the areas of banking law, corporate finance, company law, commercial law and general private law.