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Sim Michael Owolabi - Director

Sim is an experienced litigation Solicitor with over a decade of experience. He usually deals with matters of significant complexity and covers a range of general disputes. He represents private individuals and small to medium size organisations often in cases with an international background.

He is the Principal officer at Oakstead Solicitors and was previously head of litigation at a London based practice. Sim holds an undergraduate degree in Law and also completed the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law before embarking on a career as a Solicitor. The hybrid nature of his training background within both branches of the profession, gives him a comprehensive perspective in his specialty area as a dispute resolution Solicitor.

He is highly regarded for adopting a pragmatic approach to problem solving and an approachable manner.

Professional Memberships:

  • London Solicitors Litigation Association
  • Employment Lawyers Society
  • Member of Resolution

Representative experience:

  • Represented an 8-member faction of a 20-member board of Directors unlawfully excluded [or purportedly resigned] from the board without their consent or knowledge in a joint venture commercial property company valued at £5million. Secured an injunction and reversed the status quo.
  • Represented a male senior executive of a bank faced with historic allegation of marital rape in non-molestation proceedings issued upon notice of divorce; concluded with a successful strike out of the allegations.
  • Advised a female victim of online dating fraud for loans made to her purported lover. Secured a freezing injunction on his London properties and upon a successful final judgment applied for an order to sell to recover sums due.
  • Represented a parent in a breach of contract dispute at the High Court against a leading London independent school on account of an inconsistent application of their policies.
  • Represented a consortium of West African property developers and successfully set aside a registered foreign judgment for £10 million by an agency of the government of Nigeria which had been registered as an English judgment in contravention of the provisions of the Administration of Justice Act 1920.
  • Successfully represented the first British football player to succeed in a case against a football club on grounds of racial victimisation. The tribunal at the directions hearing conducted by Sim accepted the Claimants’ position that the compulsory arbitration provisions of the Football Associations standard contracts [as they then were] does not take precedence over the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 which reserves exclusive jurisdiction to the Employment tribunal.
  • Advising a Swiss-Italian spouse involved in a foreign divorce over the preservation and avoidance of disposition of assets for the family currently dispersed across England, Africa and Jersey.
  • Appeared before the NMC panel on behalf of a nurse who was subjected to an interim suspension order on account of a patient who had reacted to medication and suffered an anaphylactic shock at a private hospital. The suspension order was overturned in circumstances where the hospital had failed to provide a sufficient number of nurses to cater for the post-surgery during a peak handover period.
  • Represented a mother at the Family Court where a Circuit judge decided to reject the recommendation of the Cafcass Social worker on account of an imbalanced approach to mum and a failure to consider the impact of her recommendations on child.
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