Practice area
The conduct of civil litigation itself: costs, case management, jurisdiction and service, limitation, disclosure, procedural appeals, and enforcement of judgments.
General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited (GDUK) is a judgment creditor of the State of Libya in the sum of around £28 million. It obtained a final charging order together with an order for sale and possession over a property at 7…
Tesla, Inc, a Texas company, and its English subsidiary Tesla Motors Ltd wished to launch 5G-enabled vehicles in the United Kingdom, their fourth largest market. Implementing the 5G standard set by the European Telecommunications…
Hazelmont (Kent) Limited was the registered provider of a children's home. On 8 May 2026 Ofsted made a decision under section 20B of the Care Standards Act to cancel the company's registration to carry on the home, and the Notice…
The appellant, House for Homes Limited, owned a property at 11A Winchester Road, London. The London Borough of Waltham Forest, as local housing authority, imposed a financial penalty of £15,600 on the company for operating a…
The claimant, Mr Andrew Tipping, is a professional photographer of four decades' standing and the co-creator of Max Power, a monthly magazine devoted to performance-tuned and modified cars published between 1991 and 2011 by EMAP…
The second defendant, Hunkemöller International BV, is a Netherlands-based European retailer of intimate apparel. In October 2022 it issued €272,500,000 of Senior Secured 9% Notes under an indenture governed by New York law, the…
The claimants, Michael and Norah Clarke, were councillors of Porthcawl Town Council, the first defendant; the second defendant, Kerry Grabham, was its town clerk. An audit report produced around June 2021, which the claimants say…
The First Defendant operates indoor entertainment parks under the Gravity brand through franchise agreements; Mr Jenkinson, the Third Defendant, is a director of the First and Second Defendants. In June 2019 Mr Gibbons, having…
The appellant, Mr John Robert Pascual, lived in Gateshead and had formerly worked on a North Sea oil platform on a high salary until an accident left him unemployable in that industry, though he retained substantial savings and…
The appellant, Collette Chadda, complained to the Information Commissioner on 9 August 2025 about alleged systematic data protection failures by Computershare Investor Services Plc in connection with the administration of the GAM…
Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP (CYK), a firm of solicitors, sued Mr Laurence Davis and Mr John Baker for unpaid fees of £194,137.72 by a claim issued on 22 July 2021. The defendants counterclaimed for professional negligence, valued…
The applicant, H, aged 84 and a dual British and Russian citizen living at the parties' family home in Odintsovo near Moscow, brought financial remedy proceedings against W, aged 52 and also a dual British and Russian citizen who…
The claimant, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is the residuary beneficiary of the estate of Ms Margaret Anne Selby, who died on 20 November 2022 leaving a will dated 12 March 2020. By that will Ms Selby appointed as…
The Claimants, Domestic & General entities, brought long-running proceedings alleging that a succession of businesses used fraudulent "association misrepresentation" telephone sales calls to sell appliance warranty products…
HMRC issued Notices of Requirement ("NORs") to Intech Ventures Limited and to Mr Michael Stefan Duma, requiring security for PAYE and NICs. Both appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) against the notices. The FTT…
The claimants, Mrs Alison Corbel and Mrs Veronica Elsden, brought a claim under CPR Part 8 in September 2024 for the removal of their brother, Mr Nigel Golding, as executor of the will of their late mother, Yvonne Golding. The…
TE is a young person, aged 19 at the date of the First-tier Tribunal's decision, with complex social, emotional and mental health needs and a longstanding Education Health and Care plan. His mother lives in the London Borough of…
The claimant, Mr Edward, was employed by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust — in whose shoes the respondent Trust now stands — in a band 5 role from May 2016 until his dismissal in May 2018, it having been decided…
Float Capital Limited was in creditors' voluntary liquidation, with Mr Bouchier and Mr Woodthorpe appointed as joint liquidators. On 24 July 2026 Chief ICC Judge Briggs handed down a judgment, [2026] EWHC 1891 (Ch), and made two…
The applicant, John Mitchell, had on 30 July 2023 requested information from the Environment Agency about an 'energy from waste' plant, in three parts: a copy of the "full review" of the regulatory approach to the site, copies of…