Crime

• Defending on a charge of conspiracy in a drugs importation case; historical sexual abuse; possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life (where a shotgun was discharged narrowly missing the victim); and (somewhat unusually) on a charge contrary to the Inclosure Act 1857 relating to a village green. 

Recent lectures: Police Disciplinary Tribunals – in house training for Chambers
 

Personal Injury

• Personal injury claims settling for £350,000 and £600,000

• Personal injury claims:  for psychiatric harm suffered by secondary victims; and by a nurse against a PCT for injuries caused by a violent patient.
 

Commercial

• Property disputes involving: sale by a local authority of housing stock without Home Office consent; equitable claims for rectification of documents and their enforceability against subsequent purchasers of land; applications to rectify register at HM Land Registry etc.

• FA arbitration between player and agent

• Advising in a wide range of cases (e.g. including aspects of highway law and the law of drains and sewers)

• Possession proceedings involving a Rent Act protected tenancy (quite a novelty nowadays!) and mortgages

• Litigation involving:
a substantial dispute between car retailer, supplier and importer concerning importation of cars from Italy via Gibraltar to the UK arising from the failure to deliver 80 or so cars following disruption in Italy a limitation defence to a claim in tort for trespass and whether the trespass was continuing or not lease/licence and loan/gift issues implied terms in a commercial lease
a claim for the return of £110,000 paid by way of deposit in a property transaction involving land overseas
company director’s duties in a dispute concerning a distribution agreement professional negligence of solicitors in conveyancing matters on behalf of a property developer whose plans were frustrated by a failure to register TLATA disputes including one case involving auction law and another a family farm trust a claim for forfeiture of a collection of long leases in a new development for non-payment of service charges boundary disputes

• Inheritance disputes involving challenges to the validity of wills and claims under the 1975 Act by relatives and dependants for both claimants and defendants

• Drafting commercial agreements
Joint tenancies and tenancies in common before and after Stack – to the local law society (with Andrew Lord of Paradise Chambers);

Employment

• Unfair dismissal and discrimination claims before the Employment Tribunal He is involved in legal training.

Recent lectures have been on: Employment Law: Redundancy
 

Public/Administrative Law

• Applications for judicial review of:
a decision by Defra in relation to an application for diversion of a public footpath: settled after service of papers
a decision by magistrates to imprison a mother of three for non-payment of council tax, involving securing her release on bail pending the hearing of the application
defending an application for review of a decision by a local authority in relation to a housing issue

• Obtaining an injunction on behalf of a NHS Trust to prohibit a member of the public from visiting a hospital (an order that was necessary to protect staff from physical harm)

• A claim against the Home Office on behalf of a prisoner who was too big to be tagged and released early under a home detention curfew licence condition
 

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