Mike Wilkinson

Practice Areas

Dr Mike Wilkinson is a specialist in Business and Property law and has built up a successful practice, typically dealing with complex and high value cases, often involving allegations of fraud or difficult legal arguments.

Mike appears in the the High Court regularly but has appeared in all sorts of other courts and tribunals, including on a number of occasions in the Court of Appeal.

Mike’s practice encompasses the traditional range of commercial and chancery work including:

-commercial contract disputes,

-shareholder and company,

-partnership law,

-civil fraud,

-professional negligence,

-building disputes and construction law,

-insurance and banking,

-consumer and consumer credit,

-mortgage cases,

-landlord and tenant disputes, and

-real property work.

-applications for injunctive relief,

-wills, probate and trusts disputes,

-insolvency,

-international and transactional work, including EU Law,

Career

Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester, 2010-2017, PhD banking reform and corporate governance

College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium 2004-2005; LLM European Legal Studies;

University of Durham 1999-2001 and 2002-2003; LLB Law and European Legal Studies;

University of Fribourg, Switzerland 2001-2002; European Legal Studies component of LLB

Professional Memberships

hair of Events for the European Circuit of the Bar

Northern Chancery Bar Association

Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association

Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)

Court of Protection Association

Northern Circuit of the Bar

Inner Temple

PDSL accredited and International Mediation Institute qualified mediator

Bar Council Law Reform Committee (2023)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts