Robert Sterling

Robert Sterling has been a member of St. James's Chambers since 1971 and became Head of Chambers in 1992.

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.

He has appeared in a number of reported cases including the following:

Taylors Industrial Flooring Limited v M & H Plant Hire (Manchester) Limited (1990) (CA)

A-G (ex rel Scotland) v Barratt Manchester Limited and Bolton MBC (1992) (CA)

Singh v Rochdale MBC (1993) 65 P & CR 75

White v Richards (1994) (CA)

Griffiths v Yorkshire Bank Plc (1994)

Westbrook v Rawlinson (1994)

Alsop Wilkinson v Neary (1996)

Re: P W Edgerley Limited (1997)

Ross v Telford (1998) (CA)

Provincial North West Plc v Bennett (1999) (CA)

Naidou v Naidu and Brown Turner Compton Carr (2000)

Habib Bank Ltd v Abbeypearl Limited (2001) EWCA Civ 62

Re Salmet International Limited (in administration) (2001) BCC 796

Re: Mays deceased (2002) EWHC 1422 (Ch)

Re: Pybus (2002)

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

Transco Plc v Stockport MBC (2004) 2 AC 1(HL)

Maden v Clifford Coppock & Carter (2005) 2 AER 43 (CA)

Park Lane Ventures Ltd v Locke (2006) EWHC 1578

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

Robert's spare-time interests include playing tennis and golf, skiing and exercising at the gym.