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Keiron Murray
Advocate - Keiron deals principally with Commercial Litigation and works in the firm’s busy litigation department.
Keiron was called to the Manx Bar in 2000 and joined the firm in April 2005. He deals principally with Commercial Litigation and works in the firm’s busy litigation department.
Keiron has wide ranging experience of winding up, freezing and disclosure order proceedings (often involving cross-jurisdictional elements); petitions of doleance (the Island’s equivalent of judicial review), data protection, directors disqualification and financial regulatory work, particularly involving Fiduciary Service Providers. He has also appeared in professional negligence disputes and landlord and tenant litigation and has a growing local employment law practice.
Keiron has recently acted against the Department of Local Government and the Environment in proceedings seeking to set aside the Island’s Strategic Plan and continues to represent the Financial Supervision Commission in numerous directors disqualification cases. He acted for Department of Trade and Industry in relation to the proceedings brought by the auditor KPMG which centred on disputed loans to the MEA.
Keiron has appeared in the following reported and/or online cases:
Isle of Man Taxi Owners Association (Chancery Division) - 13 July 2003 and link 2
Representing 8 recipients of newly issued hackney carriage licenses subject to doleance challenge
In re: MTM (Isle of Man) Limited [2003-05] MLR 415 (Chancery Division) - 7 October 2004
Doleance proceedings brought against regulator’s decision to defer consideration of grant of CSP licence to applicant pending completion of investigations relevant to key staff.
Harben v Dickinson, Cruickshank & Co. [2005-07] MLR N12 (Staff of Government) - 16 February 2006
Proceedings relevant to constitution of Court and disqualification of Judge.
Harben v Dickinson, Cruickshank & Co. [2005-07] MLR N23 (Staff of Government) - 31 May 2006
Strike out on grounds of limitation and inordinate and inexcusable delay.
Navigator Gas Transport plc [2005-07] MLR N18 (Chancery Division) - 24 April 2006
Appearance on behalf of liquidator seeking sanction of payment as liquidators fees and expenses of US Chapter 11 professional fees and expenses from assets subject to security within such Chapter 11 proceedings
Petition of Baccarat (Department of Local Government and Environment as Respondent) - 27 May 2008
Petitioner’s status as a ‘person aggrieved’ under Town and Country Planning Act 1999
Petition of Baccarat (Department of Local Government and Environment as Respondent) - 26 August 2008 and link 2
Challenge to validity of the process bringing forward the Isle of Man Strategic Plan
Petition of G. J Maley Limited - 26 March 2009
Acted for party whose membership of list of NHS pharmaceutical contractors was challenged under a petition of doleance
Financial Supervision Commission disqualification proceedings:
Re Palmer - 7 May 2004 and Re Palmer - 7 May 2004
Re Lord and Lord - 25 May 2006
Re Duffy - 20 September 2007
Re Yates - 16 April 2008
Also within the Litigation team:
Jonathan Wild - team head
Kathryn Clough
Kevin Goldie
kmurray@callinwild.com