Professional memberships: Chancery Bar Association and Northern
Chancery Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Education
Ampleforth College, York
Girton College, Cambridge (MA Cantab)
Middlesex University
Inns of Court School of Law
Public Access:
He is authorised by the Bar Council to accept instructions in
accordance with the Public Access Rules which enable members of the
public, in many circumstances, to instruct a barrister direct.
What solicitors say
about him.......
"Great
with difficult clients and difficult cases”
"Understands the needs of solicitors and delivers every time”
"Great
court presence – impressive advocate, judges and tribunals really listen
to him and accept his submissions.”
"Good on his feet, very effective in cross examination”
"Very methodical on evidence and the law and does
impeccable research”
"First class service"
Areas of Practice
He has an extensive advisory practice and regularly
appears in High Court and County court dealing with the following areas
of practice:
Property
All types of property related work including easements, rights of
light, restrictive covenants, boundaries, adverse possession, trusts of
land, constructive/resulting trusts, proprietary estoppel with a
particular emphasis on property development projects.
All aspect of Landlord and Tenant, particularly business tenancies.
Employment
All aspect of employment law including wrongful and unfair
dismissal, redundancy, DDA, discrimination in all forms including
discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, sexual orientation and age,
Human Rights, restrictive covenants, trade secrets.
Business
Commercial contracts, partnership, guarantees, agency, economic
torts, commercial fraud, sale of goods and supply of services,
professional negligence including accountancy, solicitors, surveyors,
architects, building contracts, IT professionals and financial lending
institutions.
Chancery
Trusts and breach of trust including fraud and undue influence,
securities and disputes involving financial lending institutions, wills
and Inheritance Act Claims together with ancillary relief claims
particularly those involving business assets.
VAT and Customs
He has extensive experience of the VAT and Duties Tribunal and
receives instructions from HMRC, having appeared on their behalf on over
135 occasions.
Examples of Cases
Much of his work is
advisory and cannot be disclosed in the interests of his clients.
Property
Laycock v. Pluck
King v. Doughty
Rights of way
Armitage Sykes
Cobble Fold
Developments v. Tinker
Breach of contract and trust concerning the transfer of Land,
property development
Levi Solicitors
Coopland v. Greggs
plc
Restrictive Covenant enforcement between businesses, loss of
business damages claim; settlement confidential.
Atherton Godfrey
Smith v. Evans
Right of way to commercial premises
Tierney & Co
McIlroy v. Southwell
and Nottingham Diocesan Board of Finance
Reference to HM adjudicator
Adverse Possession
Atherton Godfrey
Redfearn v. Owen
Reference to HM Adjudicator
Rights of way
Armitage Sykes
Haigh v. McKay
Property related dispute
Atherton Godfrey
Rockley Old Hall v.
Glasby
Action for obstruction of easement, concerning development of Manor
House
Irwin Mitchell
Dhillon v Dyson
Conveyancing transaction dispute
Armitage Sykes
Timson Retail v.
Cattee
Business Tenancy dispute
Armitage Sykes
Employment
Crossland v. Haslam Homes Ltd
Employment, disability discrimination
Atherton Godfrey
Evans v. Haslam
Homes Ltd
Employment Appeal Tribunal
Employment, sexual orientation discrimination
Atherton Godfrey
Sutcliffe v.
Coca-Cola Ltd
Employment claim concerning the age of retirement, settled in favour
of Claimant.
Rice-Jones Solicitors
Chancery
Hussain v. Alam and Bi
Undue influence, solicitors negligence, proprietary estoppel,
constructive trusts
Schofield Sweeney
Hartley v. Allen
Gift procured by undue influence
Atherton Godfrey
Badger v. Clymo
Constructive Trusts
Schofield Sweeney
Carlac v. Frost
Guarantees and TOLATA.
Atherton Godfrey
Re Baxter Deceased
Wills/Distribution of estates
Armitage Sykes
Bell v. Rogers
Inheritance Act
Atherton Godfrey
Rogers v. Schumack
Wills/Breach of trust
Levis Solicitors
Parnall v. Parnall
Tierney & Co
Inheritance Act Claim
Lawton-v-Holmes
Bailey Smailes Heap Marshall
Inheritance Act case
Business
Wood v. Berg & Company
Breach of Trust claim involving solicitors
Atherton Godfrey
Dunham Holdings Ltd
v. Vickers Orriss
Surveyor's Negligence
Armitage Sykes
Green v. Sentley
Wilson Bowen
Solicitors negligence
Atherton Godfrey
Thurloe v. Richmond
and Overton
Breach of Contract, instructed on appeal to High court
Irwin Mitchell
Ancillary Relief
Fleary v.
Fleary
Bailey Smailes
Brady v. Brady
Boscos
Penman v. Penman
Hawkins Ross
Ancillary relief of wife involving successful claim of substantial
business assets of husband
VAT
He has appeared in over 135 cases on behalf of HMRC throughout
the country including recently
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust v. HMRC
Abel v. HMRC
Interests
Chair
of Trustees of Youth 2000 Charitable Trust
Chairman of Xt3 Media Charitable Trust
Member of the Catholic Union
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