Billington Barristers – bring our litigation experience to your legal team

As experienced litigation counsel, Billington Barrister’ lawyers are often engaged to work as co-counsel with other firms, providing a depth of knowledge and experience to enhance the client’s litigation team. Rick Billington, Head of Chambers at Billington Barrister says that we have deliberately kept our firm small and focused on high-quality representation in the areas of:

• Emergent pre-trial remedies to fight fraud, including Anton Piller Orders to preserve evidence. Our extensive experience in this area includes acting for Plaintiffs, Defendants and as court appointed Independent Supervising Solicitors, having been appointed as Independent Supervising Solicitors by Federal Court and the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta on numerous occasions. Our cases are precedent setting, employing innovative approaches to equitable remedies and the seizure, storage and analysis of evidence that was at risk of destruction.
• Oppression remedies in corporate matters: This includes the summary removal of directors, court-directed shareholder meetings, reversing financial transactions and conducting in camera investigations of corporations to determine if fraud has occurred.
• Mareva Injunctions to seize assets before trial, attachment orders, Norwich Pharmacal orders to compel the production of evidence held by third parties before the action is served on the defendant. Whether acting for plaintiffs or defendants, we pride ourselves on our ability to rapidly organize and bring our case to court, sometimes in mere hours or a few days.
• Equitable receiverships: We acted for the Receiver in the Base Mortgage matter, a $130 million Ponzi Scheme. We found and secured assets held by the fraudulent defendants and oversaw the distribution of proceeds to victims.
• Commercial litigation and arbitration: We recently concluded a successful claim in arbitration on a disputed royalty clause in the energy industry. We often litigate restrictive covenants, rights of first refusal, and breach of fiduciary duty claims.