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Bláthnaid Breslin

Bláthnaid Breslin

Call: 2019

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Bláthnaid Breslin

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Bláthnaid joined Littleton Chambers in October 2021 on successful completion of her pupillage. Bláthnaid has experience in all of Chambers’ core areas of work, particularly commercial litigation and employment and business protection disputes.

Notable recent case include:

Commercial cases:

  • Athena Capital Fund v Secretariat of State for the Holy See: 4-week High Court trial concerning the sale of 60 Sloane Avenue (a former Harrods depository building) to the Vatican’s Secretariat of State of the Holy See (described by the press as “the trial of the century”), led by Charles Samek KC and Tetyana Nesterchuk.
  • Frontiers Capital I Limited Partnership v Flohr [2023] EWHC 2723 (Ch): High Court claim concerning the effect of section 38 Partnership Act 1890, currently on appeal to the Court of Appeal – led by Jonathan Cohen KC and Nicholas Goodfellow.
  • Domestic & General Insurance Plc v Premier Protect Holdings: 8-day High Court trial of claims for causing loss by unlawful means and unlawful means conspiracy – led by Nicholas Goodfellow.

Diplomatic and state immunity:

  • Costantine v Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau): a case concerning the scope of state immunity in respect of claims by administrative and technical staff of an embassy, due to be heard by the Supreme Court in November 2024 – led by Mohinderpal Sethi KC and Joel Wallace.
  • Basfar v Wong [2023] AC 33: landmark Supreme Court decision on the scope of diplomatic immunity – led by Mohinderpal Sethi KC and Sophia Berry. This was the first ever case to be granted permission to ‘leapfrog’ appeal directly from the EAT to the Supreme Court.

Bláthnaid also appears unled in the High Court, the County Court and the Employment Tribunals.

Bláthnaid graduated with a First Class LLB in Law with New Zealand Law from the University of Nottingham, coming 5th in her year. She also obtained a Distinction on the BCL from the University of Oxford, winning the Oxford Law Faculty prize for Children, Families and the State. Bláthnaid received a Lord Denning scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn. Prior to pupillage, Bláthnaid was the judicial assistant to Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court (as he then was, he is now the Master of the Rolls).

Bláthnaid played tennis for the University of Nottingham and the University of Oxford Ladies’ II tennis teams. She played cricket for Ireland as a junior. She also speaks Spanish.

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