Mr Alfred Weiss > Exchange Chambers > Leeds, England > Barrister Profile

Mr Alfred Weiss

0113 203 1970 weiss@exchangechambers.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Employment; Commercial; Professional Negligence; Insolvency; Public Law; Inquests; Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

Position

Experienced Counsel who enjoys building a good rapport with his professional and lay clients alike.  An extremely effective advocate and advisor who is equally at home working as sole Counsel, or as part of a larger team with solicitors, fellow barristers and leading Counsel.  Expertise in a number of practice areas leaves him particularly well-placed to deal with cases that are multi-faceted and at the inter-play between his fields of expertise.   Has appeared at all level of Court up to and including the Court of Appeal.  A member of the Attorney General’s Regional Panel, is instructed by Central Government Departments and Agencies with great frequency.  A fluent Spanish speaker, he is happy to deploy his language skills in appropriate cases.

 Employment

• Heavyweight statutory employment claims with an emphasis on discrimination, whistleblowing, and transfer of undertakings – regularly briefed in complex, high value and/or multi-week hearings
• Discrimination in goods and services
• Restrictive covenants, confidentiality, database rights, fiduciary duties – expertise in overlap between Commercial and Employment law
• Instructed by private employers, central government department and agencies, local authorities, individual employees ranging from shop-floor workers to directors, trade unions

Commercial

• Breach of contract, sales of goods and services, economic torts
• Claims for breach of trust, unjust enrichment, monies had and received
• Injunctive relief
• Overlap between commercial and employment law

Professional Negligence

• Experienced professional negligence practitioner including in claims against solicitors and barristers, accountants, lenders, finance professionals, surveyors, estate agents
• ‘mis-selling’ claims
• Acts for claimants and defendants

 Insolvency

• Directors’ disqualification and public interest winding up
• Liquidator claims
• Corporate and personal insolvency
• Claims against IPs

Public law

• Judicial Review – regularly instructed by Government Legal Department as member of Attorney General’s Regional Panel
• Claims for and against the police in particular malicious prosecution and unlawful arrest
• Human Rights Act claims and Data Protection Act claims

Inquests

• Experienced in complex and lengthy inquests of up to four weeks’ duration
• Frequently instructed by Government Legal Department as member of Attorney General’s Panel
• Acts for public and private organisations, healthcare professionals, prison officers, Families

Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

• Experienced in a range of personal injury, industrial disease and clinical negligence disputes up to and including cases of catastrophic injuries
• Experienced trial advocate and negotiator at JSM
• Particularly well-placed to deal with cases at interplay between Employment Law and Personal Injury

Career

Called 2006; Junior Counsel to the Crown (2012)

Memberships

• North Eastern Circuit
• Industrial Law Society
• Personal Injury Bar Association

Education

• MA History, Churchill College, University of Cambridge (Class I, 2003, MA 2007)
• MPHIL History, Churchill College, University of Cambridge (Pass, 2004)
• Graduate Diploma in Law, College of Law (Distinction, 2005)
• Bar Vocational Course, College of Law (Very Competent, 2006)
• Lord Denning Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn (2005)