Practice area
The conduct of civil litigation itself: costs, case management, jurisdiction and service, limitation, disclosure, procedural appeals, and enforcement of judgments.
Mr Robert Ebert, a British citizen then living and working in Hong Kong, was driving a Ferrari 458 Spider on 9 June 2015 when he lost control of the vehicle, which left the road and struck a security guard, Mr Ku Lap-Chi, who…
The applicants, Mr Thomas Benski and Ms Marisa Clifford, were the founders, directors and shareholders of Pulse Films Limited, an independent media and production company in which the Vice Group had acquired a majority stake in…
The applicant former wife and the respondent former husband married in July 2006 and separated in August 2021; they have three daughters, aged 18, 17 and 15, who live with her. Divorce and financial remedy proceedings concluded…
Mr Gaymer is the freehold owner of two golf courses, a club house and ancillary buildings originally known as the Mentmore Golf Course and Country Club, land adjacent to Mentmore Towers, a Grade 1 listed house held ultimately for…
Shane Matin has been identified as the sole company officer of APQ Developments Ltd, and Personal Liability Notices were issued to him in respect of the company's corporation tax and construction industry scheme liabilities. His…
The Information Commissioner investigated Clearview AI Incorporated, a Delaware technology company with no corporate presence in the UK, which deploys automated 'crawlers' to 'scrape' facial images and accompanying metadata from…
The Third Defendant, then called Pride Planning Ltd, sold funeral plans. Customers paid not the company but the Pride Planning Trust, of which they became beneficiaries; Pride Planning could appoint the trustees. When the…
The claimant, anonymised as DOL and acting by his mother and litigation friend DHL, is a young person with complex special educational needs including autism, global developmental delay and learning difficulties. Southampton City…
The appellant, Irfan Ali, lodged an appeal with the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) against the Charity Commission for England & Wales, using the GRC1 form on 9 June 2026. The appeal as lodged was incomplete: the…
The claimant, Cavendish IP Solutions Ltd, a litigation funder, took an assignment from the liquidator of One Property Group (UK) Limited of all the company's claims against the defendants. The company had gone into creditors'…
Avon Freeholds Ltd is the freeholder of numbers 7–26 Cresta Court, Hanger Lane, London, a residential block containing 20 flats. Cresta Court E RTM Co Ltd was incorporated by leasehold owners of the premises to acquire the right…
Blackpool Borough Council, the local planning authority for the Blackpool area, brought a claim for a permanent injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 against the freehold owners of a site at the…
The claimant, Segrue Investments Limited, owned a former HSBC bank at the Forum, Marlborough Road, Swindon, which it intended to convert to residential use. Two chargeable developments arose: prior approval under Class R…
Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri was a consultant gynaecologist working in Guernsey, where he was head of Gynaecological Oncology at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital, employed by the Medical Specialists Group. Between October 2017 and January…
The appellant, Mr M Mostafa, brought claims of direct race and religion discrimination against Mrs K Julier and Miss C Slater. His case concerned his having gone from being a frontrunner for a permanent role to not being…
The dispute concerned the beneficial ownership of three two-bedroom mid-terraced properties in Chatham, Kent: 28 Grange Hill, 130 Castle Road and 44 Albany Road. HRP Complete Solutions LLP ("the Old LLP") was the beneficial…
Mr Jordan Lyden was issued with closure notices by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Revenue and Customs determining an increase in his income tax liability for two tax years. His notice of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal (Tax…
JST (UK) Limited, the UK subsidiary of the Japanese company JST Mfg Co Ltd, had provided market entry services to its parent between 2002 and 2007 under a service arrangement made in 2002. After a Japanese tax audit disallowed…
Anne Shirley Langley died on 1 May 2024. Two of her three children brought a probate claim in which they seek to propound an apparent will dated 27 August 2020, of which the first claimant, the second defendant (a longstanding…
Ashley Peters and Mary Joseph are son and mother. They fell out over the beneficial ownership of 1 Cicely Road, London SE15, legal title to which had been held jointly by Ms Joseph and Mr Peter Enulue, Mr Peters' father. After Mr…