Christopher Rafferty > Park Square Barristers > Leeds, England > Barrister Profile

Christopher Rafferty

0113 2459763

Work Department

Commercial & Chancery and Personal Injury

Position

Commercial & Chancery

Chris practises across the entire spectrum of commercial, chancery and property work. He has experience in litigation resulting from appeals, having conducted appellate litigation at the High Court in Judicial Review and Case Stated proceedings and through handling appeals of case management decisions and adverse costs orders.

Chris maintains a practice in several key areas including the sale of goods, construction of contracts and credit agreements. In small claim and fast track hearings Chris is very experienced with credit hire litigation, both bringing and defending claims.

He has often successfully argued issues of misrepresentation and enforceability of contracts, being fully conversant with the complex legislation in this area.

Chris is instructed regularly in cases involving wills and probate, TOLATA, professional negligence, regulatory and disciplinary work. Moreover Chris undertakes landlord and tenant work including Housing more generally:

• Disrepair
• Tenancy deposits
• Forfeiture
• Renewal of tenancies Chris also has an interest in land disputes involving issues of restrictive covenants, easements and rights of way, proprietary estoppel and ownership.

Chris undertakes work in respect of a variety of applications associated with bankruptcy and winding-up petitions.

Chris also is regularly instructed on behalf of Registered Social Landlords, Local Authorities, private landlords, and tenants across the spectrum of Housing Law.

He maintains an expertise in public and private residential landlord and tenant possessions and unlawful eviction claims. Such claims involve issues of succession, rent arrears, ASB and other breaches of tenancy. Chris is often instructed to represent landlords and tenants in claims with issues relating to harassment, unlawful eviction and breaches of covenants.

Moreover, Chris has extensive experience with disrepair claims, ASB and homelessness appeals, and is familiar with the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and Equality Act 2010 and has appeared in claims in which possession orders are sought against travellers.

Recent cases have involved complex homelessness appeals, multi-track final hearings in disrepair and counterclaims involving set-off, final hearing ASB possession claims, and committals for breach of exclusion and injunction orders.

Personal Injury

Chris specialises in personal injury claims on behalf of both Claimant and Defendant clients, predominantly in medium to high value Fast Track and Multi Track disputes and at all stages of proceedings. He has extensive experience in RTA and EL/PL litigation, regularly appearing in claims involving issues of causation, LVIs, credit hire and fraud.

Chris maintains a busy practice in clinical negligence, conducting litigation involving complex issues of vicarious liability in claims with serious injury and trauma at their centre.

He further acts in claims relating to industrial diseases such as Multi-Track NIHL whilst maintaining expertise in Highways Act claims and travel law. Chris has experience in bringing and defending claims within foreign jurisdictions and, having studied French law and European law in continental universities and being a fluent French speaker, is able to directly assist with such claims.

Chris has been involved in credit hire litigation since the start of his practice in 2012 and has appeared on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants at all levels, from straightforward small claim hearings to complex multi-track hearings. Chris has particular experience in claims involving fleet vehicles.

Career

Call 2010

Appointments:
2019
Deputy District Judge

Languages

French

Memberships

North Eastern Circuit
Personal Injury Bar Assocation
The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

Education

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
LLB Law with French (Hons), University of Sheffield