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18 St John Street Chambers Offices
18 St John Street Chambers
18-20 ST JOHN STREET
MANCHESTER
M3 4EA
England
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David Hoffman
Work Department
Commercial and chancery.
Position
Commercial and chancery practitioner covering: arbitration, banking and insurance, chancery (general), construction, contract drafting & litigation, commercial litigation, equity and trusts, housing, human rights, IT and e-commerce, insolvency, intellectual property, landlord and tenant (business and residential) and social housing, partnership, professional negligence, property disputes, succession and inheritance. Also practices at 4-5 GRAY’S INN SQUARE (Chambers of Timothy Straker QC and Robert Griffiths QC), London (020 7404 5252). Also practices at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square.
Career
Called 1997; Lincoln’s Inn.
Memberships
European Circuit (Treasurer); Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association; Society of Legal Scholars.
Education
Manchester Grammar School; University College Oxford (BA law first class 1993) (BCL1994); Inns of Court School of Law; College Scholarship.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2David Hoffman – 18 St John Street Chambers ‘David is very user-friendly. He works extremely efficiently and gets to the problem very quickly, and he is a good sounding board too.’
The commercial litigation team at 18 St John Street Chambers houses Richard Chapman KC, who is head of chambers and also chair of the Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association. He represented the claimant in RSW International Ltd v Purple Surgical Ltd, which concerned a claim for approximately £8m for a breach of contract regarding the supply of personal protective equipment. David Hoffman specialises in business and property litigation, and he is strong in contractual disputes in the High Court and County Courts.