I am a barrister, with the right to conduct litigation and to accept public access work. I specialise in civil and commercial litigation. Previously, I was a solicitor advocate (a solicitor with the same rights of audience as a barrister).

With over 13 years of civil and commercial litigation experience, working as an advocate and as a solicitor in private practice, I know the profession very well from the perspective of clients, solicitors and the judiciary.
My professional moto, which comes from the Barristers Code of Conduct, is to ‘promote and protect my client’s interests fearlessly, without regard to my own or to other peoples’. All too often I have heard a solicitor say ‘I will need to twist my client’s arm to accept that settlement’, or a barrister stand up in Court and state ‘Your honour, I am instructed to argue that ….'. In both cases the lawyer is signalling that they are embarrassed of their client and attempting to protect their professional reputation ahead of their client’s interests. This is something that I have never done because I value my clients and the integrity of the legal system too highly.

Area of Law

What sort of work do I do?

Below is a non-exhaustive list of the types of work that I can carry out.

Landlord & Tenant Claims (for Residential & Commercial, acting for Landlords or Tenants)
Breach of Contract Claims
Employment Claims
Personal Injury Claims
Tortious Claims (e.g. Defamation, Negligence & Nuisance)
Property Disputes (e.g. boundary disputes, rights of way disputes, restrictive covenants and co-ownership disputes)
Debt Recovery Work
Insolvency

Below are some concrete examples of the types of service that I can provide (the list is not exhaustive):
1. Drafting terms and conditions

2. Attending trials or hearings as your advocate

3. Advising you on the strengths of a potential claim that you wish to bring or need to defend

4. Advising you on settling an existing or potential claim

5. Drafting the documents required to issue a claim

6. Drafting a defence

7. Having conduct of all or part of your proceedings (whichever is more suitable to you)

8. Drafting witness statements, applications or other complicated litigious documents

9. Providing you with an advice, face to face, in writing or both

10. Providing you with advice and assistance, for active proceedings

Numbers 2-9 above

Who do I work for?

I can work for Individuals, Companies and Solicitors. Please reach out to me to enable me to put forward an appropriate fee proposal to you, I will first need understand your case.

I am able to do Small Claims Hearings. Many barristers and solicitors, will not deal with small claims proceedings because this is not cost-effective for them. However, this does not apply to me as my overheads are very low. To ensure cost effectiveness, you can conduct part of the proceedings yourself and provide me with discrete instructions, for instance you can instruct me just to attend the small

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