Maud Mullan

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 sole counsel in the County Court, and working as junior counsel. 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.

  • Assisted (as a pupil) with research and advice on behalf of defendants seeking to resist the enforcement in England of an arbitral award by a Chinese award creditor.
  • Drafted an application (as a pupil) to strike out a defendant’s jurisdiction challenge in an LCIA arbitration.
  • Regularly acts as sole counsel on behalf of major banks in County Court cases related to payment protection insurance and secret commissions.
  • Appeared (as sole counsel) in the County Court on behalf of a defendant bank, resisting a claimant customer’s application for permission to appeal a strike out order.
  • Assisted (as a pupil) with preparation of a bank’s claim against a Saudi businessman under personal guarantees governed by Saudi Arabian law.
  • Harvey v Santander UK plc [2023] EWHC 2947 (KB): assisted (as a pupil) 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.
  • Assisted (as a pupil) with advice, research, skeleton drafting and hearing preparation on behalf of defendants resisting a bank’s enforcement of a mortgage over a high-value London property.
  • Drafted pleadings (as sole counsel) on behalf of a company resisting a claim by a former customer alleging discrimination, harassment and breach of contract.
  • Assisted (as a pupil) with drafting pleadings and correspondence on behalf of claimants seeking the repayment of a c. £1.5 million debt, which the defendants alleged was part of a money laundering scheme.
  • Drafted pleadings (as a pupil) on behalf of an electronics wholesaler which claimed a debt against a corporate retailer.
  • Drafted pleadings (as a pupil) on behalf of an IT company which claimed against a corporate debtor for unpaid invoices.
  • Conducted research (as a pupil) on developments in gambling litigation between 2019 and 2024.
  • McCarthy v Proctor [2024] EWHC 684 (Ch): conducted research (as a pupil) 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.
  • THG plc v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 158: assisted (as a pupil) with research and submissions for a hearing in the Court of Appeal on whether the statutory period of limitation applies to s. 994 unfair prejudice petitions.
  • Assisted (as a pupil) with drafting a defence on behalf of a company resisting a claim by an individual who asserted that he held an equity stake.
  • Assisted (as a pupil) 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.
  • Assisted (as a pupil) with drafting pleadings on behalf of a collector in a dispute concerning Star Wars memorabilia valued at over £10 million.
  • Drafted advice and correspondence (as a pupil) on behalf of a record company which sought to resist attempts by an artist to alter his master and publishing contracts.
Winner: UK Bar Awards 2023
The Lawyer Awards 2022: Chambers of the Year