UK Bar
Practice Areas
Principal areas are (i) professional liability and disciplinary matters involving lawyers (including WCOs), accountants, auditors, actuaries, financial services professionals, insolvency practitioners, insurance brokers, surveyors/valuers; (ii) general commercial/chancery commercial litigation, with particular emphasis on insurance law; (iii) costs. Principal cases include: Infinity Reliance v Heath Crawford (2023 KB Comm): insurance brokers’ negligence; Suleman v GOC (2023 KB Admin): conflicts of interest; Barclay-Watt v Alpha Panareti (2021 QB Comm; 2022 CA): group action, property development, misrep; Mowlam v Rippon Patel & French (2020 QB): solicitor/client costs assessment; Quinn v Sullivan (2019 QB): commercial fraud; Le Brocq v Liverpool Crown Court (2019 CA): criminal WCO quashed; Riaz v Ashwood (2018 SCCO): delivery up of solicitors’ files; SRA v Emeana (2013 QB Admin): disciplinary interface between dishonesty and lack of integrity; Nationwide BS v Davisons (2012 QB and CA): solicitors’ liability for breach of trust; Makar v Russell Jones & Walker (2012 QB Comm): strike-out and CROs; Crabtree v Ng (2011 CA): stage 1 WCO quashed; Yechiel v Kerry London (2010 QB Comm): falsified insurance claims; Angel Solicitors v Jenkins O’Dowd & Barth (2009 Ch): solicitors’ undertakings; Nationwide BS v Lewis (1998 CA): no liability of salaried partner without reliance.
Career
MA (Cantab). Called (Middle Temple) 1986. At 4 New Square since 1987.
Professional Memberships
PNBA, ChBA, COMBAR, LCLCBA, BILA, ARDL.
Publications
Editor of Jackson & Powell: Professional Liability Precedents.
Personal
Educated at Mill Hill School and Christ’s College, Cambridge. Leisure interests: choral and solo singing, lawn tennis. Languages: French, Serbian.
