Areas of Practice
Track Record
Acting for a claimant purchaser in a misrepresentation claim against the vendor for breach of the sale agreement, which settled at mediation
Acting for a landlord on a redevelopment of a large site involving in excess of 20 tenants, some of which had protection under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, including providing strategic advice on obtaining vacant possession by the date the development was due to start while maintaining the income stream for as long as possible and dealing with multiple proceedings under the 1954 Act
Acting for a claimant in the defendant’s appeal to the Court of Appeal on the extent to which section 21 of the Limitation Act 1980 applies to a claim against a company director for breach of fiduciary duty
Successfully defending a claim brought against our client by his former partner in an LLP for allegedly overdrawing his share of the LLP’s profits by approximately £5 million.
Representing a third party respondent to a Norwich Pharmacal Order in the JSC BTA Bank litigation
Representing a claimant company in successfully opposing applications to set aside two default judgments in the Chancery Division that we had obtained on the claimant’s behalf against the defendant, who was a guarantor of a loan of £5 million from our client that had not been repaid. Obtaining an order for sale of the Defendant’s penthouse apartment in Knightsbridge and subsequently obtaining vacant possession and defeating an application for an injunction to prevent exchange taking place.
Memberships
Property Litigation Association
Westminster and Holborn Law Society
Education & Qualification
University of Hull
Qualified as a solicitor in 2005 and trained with Boodle Hatfield
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