Robert specialises in Chancery and commercial litigation with an emphasis on professional negligence, corporate and personal insolvency and non-contentious and contentious company and property work. He appears mainly in the High Court and has experience in the Lands Tribunal. His practice covers shareholders and corporate disputes, directors disqualification, financial services and markets law, receiverships, administration and liquidation, partnership, commercial landlord and tenant and agricultural holdings, rent reviews, all aspects of property law, in particular restrictive covenants and easements (including rights of light), tax, pensions, probate, trusts, intellectual property, confidential information and restraint of trade.
His professional negligence litigation tends to focus upon solicitors and accountants. He has recent and practical experience of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and professional issues relating to solicitors. He undertakes arbitration and mediation work and also sits as an arbitrator.
Robert Sterling has been a member of St. James's Chambers since 1971 and became Head of Chambers in 1992.
Reported Cases
- Agricullo Ltd v Yorkshire Housing Ltd (2010) P. & C.R. 173 (CA)
- (Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938.)
- Porter v Zurich Insurance Company (2009) EWHC 376 (QB)
- (claim by insured under insurance policy - insured suffering from persistent delusional disorder had set fire to his home in an attempted suicide - test for mental capacity)
- Williams v Bateman (2009) BPIR 973
- (equitable accounting and equity of exoneration in the context of insolvency)
- Park Lane Ventures Ltd v Locke (2006) EWHC 1578
- Maden v Clifford Coppock & Carter (2005) 2 AER 43 (CA)
- Transco Plc v Stockport MBC (2004) 2 AC 1(HL)
- Joseph v Joseph (2003) EWCA Civ 308
- Jim Ennis Construction Ltd v Thewlis (2003) EWCA Civ 1273
- Bradmount Investments Ltd v Williams de Broe Plc (2003) EWHC 2905 and (2005) EWHC 2449
- Re: Mays deceased (2002) EWHC 1422 (Ch)
- Re: Pybus (2002) (Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal)
- Habib Bank Ltd v Abbeypearl Limited (2001) EWCA Civ 62
- Re Salmet International Limited (in administration) (2001) BCC 796
- Naidou v Naidu and Brown Turner Compton Carr (2000)
- Provincial North West Plc v Bennett (1999) (CA)
- Ross v Telford (1998) (CA)
- Re: P W Edgerley Limited (1997)
- Alsop Wilkinson v Neary (1996)
- White v Richards (1994) (CA)
- Griffiths v Yorkshire Bank Plc (1994)
- Westbrook v Rawlinson (1994)
- Singh v Rochdale MBC (1993) 65 P & CR 75
- A-G (ex rel Scotland) v Barratt Manchester Limited and Bolton MBC (1992) (CA)
- Taylors Industrial Flooring Limited v M & H Plant Hire (Manchester) Limited (1990) (CA)
