David Hoffman > 4-5 Gray's Inn Square > London, England > Barrister Profile

David Hoffman

dhoffman@4-5.co.uk

Position

David specialises in business and property work, primarily on the Northern Circuit. He is listed in the Legal 500 which for 2017 recommends him as ‘Very experienced across the spectrum of Chancery law.”

He undertakes a broad range of business and property work, including contract drafting as well as litigation, and general commercial work such as insurance, construction, IT and e-commerce and professional negligence. His property practice includes property disputes, insolvency, trusts and wills and other general succession matters. He is also experienced working as a junior to QCs and as part of a team on larger or more complex matters.

Career

David is qualified as an arbitrator and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR accredited mediator.  David was trained and accredited by CEDR in 2017 and has been appointed mediator in various cases since.

He is an experienced advocate both in mediation and arbitration and has an excellent record of settling cases by ADR. David has experience in a wide variety of areas of law, including commercial contracts, property disputes, wills, trusts and succession, partnership and company disputes. He has a great deal of experience as a mediation advocate and is now qualified as a mediator. He takes mediation work through the public access scheme and offers reduced prices for small cases.

Memberships

• Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• CEDR Exchange
• Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
• Society of Legal Scholars
• European Circuit