Maud Mullan
Call: 2023
Practice Overview
Maud accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ core practice areas, including commercial litigation and international arbitration.
Maud has experience acting as junior counsel in the High Court and Court of Appeal, and as sole counsel in the County Court and High Court. She is currently co-authoring a chapter on payment services and foreign exchange in the forthcoming 5th edition of Banking Litigation.
Before joining Chambers, Maud studied Classics at the University of Oxford, graduating with a BA (Double First) and an MSt (Distinction), and was awarded various scholarships and prizes. She also taught advocacy and mooting skills at City University, and worked as a research assistant on insurance and arbitration issues for Sir Richard Aikens.
Arbitration & Enforcement
- Hulley v Russia [2025] EWCA Civ 108: Acting for the Russian Federation in its resistance to ongoing enforcement proceedings of an investment treaty award before the Commercial Court (led by Vernon Flynn KC, Mark Wassouf and Cameron Miles). These proceedings involved the Russian Federation asserting its immunity under s. 1 of the State Immunity Act 1978.
- Drafted a Request for Arbitration under the ICC Rules on behalf of a creditor seeking to recover an unpaid loan (as sole counsel).
- Drafted an application to strike out a defendant’s jurisdiction challenge in an arbitration under the LCIA Rules (as a pupil).
Banking & Financial Services
- Apollo XI v Nexedge Markets [2025] EWHC 1488 (KB): acting for a CFD broker in a dispute with a lender, including obtaining a discharge of a freezing injunction at the return date (led by William Day).
- Acted for the FCA in successfully resisting an asset manager’s application for permission to seek judicial review of an FCA Final Notice.
- Appeared in the County Court on behalf of a defendant bank, resisting a claimant customer’s application for permission to appeal a strike out order (as sole counsel).
- Appeared as sole counsel on behalf of major banks in several County Court cases related to payment protection insurance and secret commissions.
- Harvey v Santander UK plc [2023] EWHC 2947 (KB): assisted with preparation for an injunction hearing in the High Court, where the defendant bank was resisting an application by a customer to release a frozen bank account (as a pupil).
Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Apollo XI v Nexedge Markets [2025] EWHC 1488 (KB): acting for a CFD broker in a dispute with a lender, including successfully obtaining a discharge of a freezing injunction at the return date (led by William Day).
- Appeared in the County Court in a successful strike out application, where the Court dismissed discrimination and harassment claims brought by a customer against a company (as sole counsel).
- Acting in the County Court for a pension scheme provider, successfully obtaining set aside of a default judgment obtained by a litigant in person (as sole counsel).
- McCarthy v Proctor [2024] EWHC 684 (Ch): conducted research on an application to serve out of the jurisdiction, on behalf of a claimant seeking damages for negligent misrepresentations as to the beneficial ownership of a foreign villa (as a pupil).
Insurance & Reinsurance
- Assisted with drafting advice for a defendant insurer on the merits of a claim by the insured, which arose from a potential third party claim against the insured for breach of a subcontract (as a pupil).
Media, Art & Cultural Property
- Assisted with drafting pleadings on behalf of a collector in a dispute concerning Star Wars memorabilia valued at over £10 million (as a pupil).
- Drafted advice and correspondence on behalf of a record company which sought to resist attempts by an artist to alter his master and publishing contracts (as a pupil).
