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Band 4
About
Provided by Paul Parker
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 and valuers; (ii) costs law; (iii) general commercial/chancery commercial litigation, with particular emphasis on insurance law. Principal cases include: 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; Hooper v Biddle (2006) (Ch): costs after compromise of exaggerated claim; 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.
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