Dale has significant experience in asset recovery, this being a natural part of his commercial practice.

Dale acts for lenders and financers as well as corporate and individual borrowers. He undertakes a wide ranging of banking work involving charges, mortgages, guarantees, facility agreements, and LPA receivership cases.

Dale has a broad commercial practice and receives instructions on behalf of both individuals and businesses in claims of all values. His commercial work covers a broad range of business disputes, including matters involving breach of contract, debt recovery, consumer rights, guarantees and indemnities, letters of credit, the sale of goods and transfer of title, the supply of services, bailment, and the proper construction and effect of contractual terms and conditions. Dale also has a good working knowledge of the law relating to force majeure and frustration, having now dealt with several cases involving the effect of Coronavirus on these areas of law.

Dale has been instructed on a number of injunction cases and is always willing to provide urgent advice and representation.

Dale regularly deals with costs disputes arising out of all claims dealt with in his practice areas. He is familiar with all arguments often made by paying parties and receiving parties and is able to deploy his experience to achieve highly favourable cost outcomes.

Dale regularly deals with cases in which fraud is alleged as part of his practice areas.

Dale offers a comprehensive service in respect of all matters relating to both corporate and personal insolvency, whether representing office-holders, debtors, creditors, companies, directors and insolvency practitioners.

Dale has experience in the full range of matters associated with insolvency litigation, including applications made within insolvency proceedings such as applications to set aside statutory demands, to restrain winding up petitions, to restrain advertisement of petitions or for administration orders.

He also has significant experience in claims brought by office holders such as liquidators and trustees in bankruptcy in respect of misfeasance, transactions at an undervalue, preference payments, transactions defrauding creditors, sham transactions, and other sums claimed to be owed.

Dale specialises in both residential and commercial landlord & tenant matters. From forfeiture claims, service charge disputes, possession proceedings, and deposit disputes, through to lengthy and complex cases of unlawful eviction, fraud, and harassment, Dale is able to provide effective advocacy in court and direct but practical advice out of court.

Dale acts for clients in all areas of property law including disputes involving easements, restrictive covenants, and trusts of land, including constructive and resulting trusts, claims pursuant to the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, boundary disputes, and matters involving contested wills and probate.