Stanley Brodie QC

During his time in junior practice, and 33 years as a Queen's Counsel, Mr Brodie has had a wide commercial and financial practice covering a number of areas. Property finance and banking are subjects with which he is very familiar. An example is Williams and Glyn's Bank v Barnes, which was the largest banking and property finance case to come out of the banking and property crash of the early seventies. He has advised on many property and development finance agreements and schemes.

Commercial arbitration:  acting successfully for German interests against the Really Useful Group.

Acting against Littlewoods p.l.c.in a dispute arising out of a very substantial supply contract on behalf of a Hong Kong Corporation.

Acting successfully for an international racehorse owner in a dispute with Tattersalls over the sale of a racehorse.

Hopkins v Dallas ChD (Lightman J) 16/6/04:  successful defence of fraudulent claim based on alleged guarantees; instructed by Denton Wilde Sapte.

Instructed in a substantial arbitration arising out of dealings on the London Metal Exchange.

Barbados Trust v Bank of Zambia (2006 CA) -Dispute arising out of trading distressed debt on the international debt market.

Advising on a reverse international takeover between an offshore quoted company and an English quoted company.

R v IRC, ex parte Preston 1985 AC 835

Walford v Miles 1992 AC 128

Re - London United Investments PLC 1992 Chancery 578

Apart from wide experience in commercial and financial practice, Mr Brodie has long been a recognised specialist in lotteries, gaming and competition law.  For close on 30 years he advised Littlewoods Pools and other pools' companies, having been made an honorary member of the Pools Promoters Association.  He has advised and acted for major companies manufacturing gaming machines, and the operators of machines. He has advised the National Lottery.

Mr Brodie acted for the Imperial Tobacco Company in the case of Imperial Tobacco Limited v. Attorney General (1981) AC 718, the leading case on lotteries.  He has lectured to the trade body concerned with sales promotions on the use of lotteries and competitions for promotional schemes, and has advised on many such schemes.

Mr Brodie has had experience of public law cases over many years. 

He has appeared in the following (amongst others):

• In Re Grosvenor Hotel
• Alfred Crompton Amusement Machines v Commissioners of Customs & Excise
• R v Commissioners of Customs & Excise, ex parte J. Rothschild Holdings
• Norwest Holt v. Department of Trade
• R v I.R.C., ex parte Preston (above)
• R v Teesside Development Corporation, ex parte William Morrison Supermarkets p.l.c.
• R v Commissioners of Customs & Excise ex parte Computer Cab Limited

Mr Brodie has represented in the Privy Council what was the fourth largest Bank in Jamaica against the Minister of Finance and Price Waterhouse. This was a public law case in which the assumption of temporary management of the Bank by the Minister had been challenged as being ultra vires and unlawful.

Mr Brodie’s most recent appearance in the Privy Council (April 2007) was on behalf of the National Water Commission of Jamaica, successfully resisting an appeal from the Jamaican Court of Appeal by a former employee of the Commission.

Mr Brodie has been involved in a number of international arbitrations, both as counsel and Arbitrator.  At present he is acting for a substantial construction company against the Government of Jamaica in an ICC arbitration, seated in the Bahamas.  The claim is for a sum approaching US$100 million. 

He has recently acted in enforcement proceedings in the commercial court in respect of an ICC award in favour of a shipbuilding company against an agency of the government of Pakistan.