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Summary Of Practice

Over twenty years’ experience of providing advice, drafting and representation in support of a wide range of commercial operations, including Building Contracts; specialising in Banking and Insurance issues, in particular Financial Compliance and the construction of policy conditions.

Banking
Bills of Exchange/Letters of Credit
Security for loans (Asset & Receivables Financing)
Guarantees, Sureties & Indemnities
Performance Bonds (Construction Finance) & PFI

General Commercial & Contract
Sale & Supply of Goods & Services
Carriage of Goods
Commercial Fraud
Fund Recovery & Restitutionary Remedies
Breach of Confidence, Restrictive Covenants & Restraint of Trade
Construction Contracts
Adjudication & Arbitration procedure (Commercial Arbitrator)

Company, Partnership & Insolvency
Formation of Companies, Partnerships, Limited Partnerships
Share Sale Agreements & Options
Duties & Disqualification of Directors
Dissolution, Receivership & Winding-up
Agency, Franchising & Distribution Agreements

Insurance
Insurable Interests
Fire, Life & Professional Indemnity Policies
Insured’s duty of disclosure, good faith etc
Claim Events & Exclusions

Professional Negligence
Solicitors; Barristers; Accountants; Surveyors; Architects; Engineers

Scholarships and Awards

Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn

Professional Memberships

•    Chancery Bar Association
•    Professional Negligence Bar Association
•    London Commercial & Common Law Bar Association

Selected Cases

James v Cliffe (1987) The Times, 16th June

Hobson v Fishburn (1988) The Times, 21st November

LB of Hackney v White (1995) The Times, 17th May

Akinbolu v Hackney LBC (1996) EGCS 73

Marshall v Rubypoint Limited (1997) 25 EG 142, CA

Hackney LBC v Hackney African Organisation (1998) EGCS 139

Phonographic Performance Ltd v. Tierney [2003] EWHC 2416 (Ch), (2004) 27(1) IPD 27006

Education

Woodhouse Grove School
Manchester University
Inns of Court School of Law

Publications

A Club Now Open to Everyone (Interest on Commercial Debts):
NLJ 13/9/02, Vol. 152 No. 7047 p1361

Ropewalking in a Straightjacket: Confidentiality, ‘Dirty Money’ & Disclosure:
NLJ 11/10/02, Vol.152 No.7051 p1537

The Risk of Mistake in Contract:
The trial & execution of Solle v Butcher: NLJ 25/10/02, Vol.152 No.7053

Justice & the ‘Denver Boot’: Freezing Orders in the County Court:
NLJ 22.11.02, Vol.152 No.7057 page 1780

The Risk of Mistake in Contract: 
(2002) NLJ Vol.152 No.7054 p1654

Allocation of Risk and the Non-Reliance Clause:
(2003) NLJ Vol.153 No.7062 p12

The Lender's Perspective of Etridge (No.2):
(2003) NLJ Vol.153 No.7082 p831

The Judicial View of Bias (Part 1):
(2003) NLJ Vol.153 No.7085 p957

The Judicial View of Bias (Part 2):
(2003) NLJ Vol.153 No.7086 p976

Fairness and the Magician's Hat: Judgment by Surprise:
(2003) NLJ, Vol.153 No.7097 p1436

Taking the Sledgehammer to the Nut: The Civil Restraint Order:
(2003) NLJ, Vol.153 No.7080 p1555

Expert or Charlatan: The Advocate's Approach to Expert Evidence:
(2003) NLJ, Vol.153 No.7105 p1742

The Cautious Banker:
(2004) NLJ, Vol.154 No.7139 p1191

Mortgage Shortfalls: Drawing the Line:
(2004) NLJ, Vol.154 No.7144 p1370

Shutting the Stable Door: Limitation & Abuse of Process (2009) 159 NLJ 1216

Experts in the Hot-tub: Concurrent Expert Testimony (2009) 159 NLJ 1632