Lucas welcomes instructions regarding contractual disputes, data protection, professional negligence, business protection, partnership law, company law, insolvency law and personal bankruptcy.

Due to Lucas’ extensive experience in representing senior executives, he is very well placed in advising employees and employers in contractual disputes. For example, whilst at Farore Law, Lucas regularly advised senior executives on LTIP schemes, discretionary bonuses, share options, carried interest, clawbacks and the enforceability of restrictive covenants.

Lucas was also a visiting lecturer at King’s College London, where he taught company law for LLB students for an academic term in 2023. As a result of his academic background, Lucas has developed a particular interest in director/fiduciary duties, unfair prejudice, partnership law, insolvency law and economic torts.

As a specialist employment barrister, Lucas also welcomes instructions in wrongful dismissal claims and discrimination in the provision of goods, services and education in the County Court and in the High Court.

Highlights include:

• Advised a judgment creditor in enforcing an Employment Tribunal award against a Sovereign State in the High Court. This required advising the judgment creditor on issues such as state immunity, diplomatic immunity and immunity from seizure of cultural objects.
• Defending a homeowner in a construction dispute with a builder, including bringing a counterclaim in breach of contract, negligence and the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
• Successfully resisted an application to set aside a Tomlin Order in the County Court and secured indemnity costs, resulting in the court awarding approximately 70% of the client’s legal costs.
• Represented a debtors and creditors in bankruptcy petitions, bankruptcy annulment applications and winding up petitions (including injunctions to restrain the advertisement of a petition).
• Defending a primary school in a direct race and religion education discrimination claim in the County Court.
• Successfully resisted an application to set aside default judgment under CPR 13.3 in a debt recovery claim containing issues regarding section 144 of the Water Industry Act 1991.
• Advised a company of their obligations under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 in disclosing sensitive financial documents pursuant to a shareholders’ special resolution.
• Advised a 50% shareholder in an unfair prejudice petition, where the client was excluded from managing the parent company and its wholly owned subsidiary after the other shareholder took steps to remove the petitioner from management.
• Advised a senior executive on a breach of contract claim following the termination of a consultancy agreement.
• Advised a company in defending an unjust enrichment, breach of contract and misrepresentation claim brought by a former senior executive.