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Call details
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2003 (Lincoln’s Inn)
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Summary of Practice
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Practice areas include contract disputes, resolved by litigation, arbitration and mediation. Also regulatory issues including judicial review. Experience covers financial services including misselling claims and Ombudsman referrals, property including boundary disputes, and media and defamation including reputation management.
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Qualifications
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B.A. Hons Law University of Durham Solicitor 1978 – 2003, Partner Addleshaw Booth & Co 1983 – 2003 (practising throughout as a commercial litigator) ADR Group Accredited Mediator 2002. Member Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2004. Editor of Specialist Courts section of Longmans Litigation Practice 2006.
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Education
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1965 – 1972: Wyndham School, Egremont, Cumbria
1972 – 1975: University of Durham
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Languages
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French (conversational)
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Personal
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Enjoys prehistory, numismatics, wine and fellwalking
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Reported cases
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- Symphony Group –v- Halvanto Kitchens Limited [1994] Q.B. 179 (costs orders against non-parties)
- MetroCammell Hong Kong Limited –v- FKI Engineering plc (1996) 77 B.L.R 586 (Arbitrator’s powers to award costs)
- Fillite (Runcorn) Limited –v- APV Pasilac Limited LTL 19/5/99 (exclusion clauses and reasonableness under UCTA)
- Fillite (Runcorn) Limited –v- AquaLift (1989) 45 BLR 27 (construction of arbitration clauses)
- Ellse –v- Hill-Pickford LTL 4/1/2007 (construction of trust deed; undue influence; mistake)
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