Joseph Curl KC
Barrister, 9 Stone Building

Joseph Curl KC specialises in insolvency litigation. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2021. Immediately prior to taking silk, he was ranked Band 1 as a junior for Restructuring and Insolvency by Chambers and Partners 2021. He is described in Chambers and Partners 2023 as:

“Joe has an encyclopedic knowledge of insolvency law and a redoubtable advocacy style”

“He is meticulous in his planning for a case.”

“Joseph possesses the ability to make extremely difficult points of law easy to understand and accept.”

He was Company / Insolvency Junior of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2019.

Joseph has appeared on the winning side in a number of the leading cases in recent times on officeholder duties, including Re Edengate Homes (Butley Hall) Ltd; Lock v Stanley [2022] EWCA Civ 626 (creditors’ standing to apply to challenge a liquidator’s decision); Re ARY Digital UK Ltd; Brewer v Iqbal[2019] EWHC 182 (Ch) (liquidator’s misfeasance claim against a former administrator for undersale of assets); Davey v Money; Dunbar Assets plc v Davey [2018] EWHC 766 (six-week trial before Snowden J concerning allegations of misfeasance against administrators); Re Zinc Hotels (Holdings) Ltd [2018] EWHC 1936 (Ch) (five-sided application to appoint additional interim administrators against the wishes of the QFCH); and Re Longmeade Ltd [2016] EWHC 356 (Ch) (liquidator’s decision-making where proposed claim opposed by majority of creditors).