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Summary Of Practice

Patrick has a property orientated practice with a client base that has included local authorities nationwide. Other major areas of practice are mercantile disputes and professional indemnity claims.

He has been recommended in various editions of Chambers Directory particularly in the fields of public and administrative law.

Scholarships and Awards

McCaskie Scholarship (Gray’s Inn).

Professional Memberships

Recorder since 1993 (Assistant Recorder 1990 – 1993)
Assistant Parliamentary Boundary Commissioner (last two reviews)
Member of the Property Bar Association
Member of the Administrative Law Bar Association
Member of the Chancery Bar Association.

Selected Cases

Reported/Selected Cases during the last ten years:

National & Provincial Building Society v Lloyd [1996] 1 All ER 630 (CA) – power of the Court to defer a mortgagee’s claim for possession.

Penny v Penny [1996] 1 WLR 1204 (CA) [1996] 2 All ER 329 – security for costs.

Mendip BC v Glastonbury Festival Ltd. 91 LGR 457 (Div. Ct.) - licensing.

Westminster City Council v Time Life International - planning controls over the contents of listed buildings.

Medforth v Blake Jones & Hore [2000] Ch 86(CA) - Equitable duty of care owed by receivers to a mortgagor.

 HWE Timm (Farmers) Ltd v. HWE Timm [2001] LTL 19/3/2001 - Principles for variation and discharge of a pending action land charge.

R v Lincolnshire Health Authority, Ex Parte Katie Collins [2001] EWHC [2001] AER (D) Admin 685 - Abuse of process; closure of a residential home for those with learning disability following the promise of a “home for life”.

Charan Singh v Sardar Investments Ltd and others [2002] EWHC 380 (Ch) - Notices to complete and breach of warranty of authority.

G Clancey Ltd v. Dudley MDC (2003) Abatement notices & injunctions in relation to pollution from a foundry.

R (On the application of Brighton & Hove CC) v Brighton & Hove Justices & Hamdan [2004] EWHC 1800 (Admin) (2005) ACD 38 -Appropriate procedure to challenge liability orders in respect of non-domestic rates

Mid-Bedfordshire District Council v Brown & others (CA) [2005] 1 WLR 1460 - Suspension of injunctions pending planning decisions in gypsy cases.

CDC2020 Plc v Ferreira & another (CA) [2005] EWCA Civ 611 (2005) 35 EG 112 - Abandonment of an express right of way.

Bokhari v Harb [2005] EWHC 56 (Ch) [2005] All ER (D) 102 - Validity of a codicil and removal of executors.

R. (on the application of JJB Sports Plc) v Telford & Wrekin BC [2008] EWHC 2870 (Admin)- the position where, having withdrawn a Multi-bill, an Authority finds itself in breach of a Regulation that demands should be issued 'as soon as practicable...'

Has appeared in two of the major cases concerning the assessment of damages for breach of warranty of authority namely Suleman v Shahsavari [1988] 1WLR 1181 and, more recently; Singh v Sardar Investments Ltd. [2002] EWHC 380 (Ch) [Patten J]

Other Information

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