David Partington

Call details 1987 (Middle Temple)  
Summary of Practice Chancery and commercial chancery; litigation relating to real and intellectual property and related professional negligence issues, company and partnership, fiduciary duties, fraud and tracing, restraint of trade, commercial landlord and tenant, interim remedies.  
Professional Associations Chancery Bar Association Northern Chancery Bar Association   
Qualifications MA (Cantab.) in Law  
Education The Manchester Grammar School Downing College, University of Cambridge  
Scholarships Scholarship in History (Downing College) Harmsworth Scholar (Middle Temple)  
Personal Enjoys keeping fit, watching football and fishing  
Reported cases
  • Sykes v Harry 2001 EWCA Civ. 167, [2001] 3 WLR 62 (A leading case on the interpretation of section 4 of the Occupiers Liability Act and section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act)
 
Recent significant cases
  • Public Inquiries into village green rights at Burley Fields, Burley in Wharfedale and Netherlands Square, Bradford, acting on behalf of the Bradford Metropolitan District Council
  • 7 day trial arising from the breach of a director’s fiduciary duties, secret profits and fraud
  • Mediation arising from the transfer of a leading premiership footballer