23ES

Commercial

Wesley Griffiths joined Chambers in October 2019, after successfully completing his pupillage with the Business and Property Team. He has since built a busy practice spanning the full range of Chambers’ business and property work. He has particular experience in the following areas:

• Property: Wesley frequently deals with property disputes, including co-ownership/ TOLATA claims, boundary disputes, and claims in relation to contracts of sale. He has wide experience in landlord and tenant matters, especially where a party is ultimately seeking to recover property: forfeiture claims; 1954 Act claims; residential possessions, and more. He is also at home dealing with dilapidations claims, service charge claims, and other related matters.
• Company: Wesley also has extensive experience in dealing with company disputes. These have included shareholder disputes, especially by way of unfair prejudice petitions, and claims in respect of alleged breaches of directors’ duties. Where fiduciary duties are alleged to have been breached, he has gained particular expertise in dealing with related claims against third parties, for example, in dishonest assistance and/or knowing receipt.
• Contract: Many of Wesley’s cases turn, one way or another, upon an alleged breach of contract. He frequently encounters cases relating to breaches of service contracts and sales contracts, with allegations of failed or defective performance being commonplace. By way of example, he has dealt with many claims, in both the business-to-business and the business-to-consumer context, relating to construction or renovation works, and car sales.
• Employment: Wesley also has extensive experience dealing with employment claims in the Employment Tribunal. These have included a large number of unfair dismissal claims, relating to misconduct, redundancy, and other matters, as well as claims in which various kinds of discrimination have been alleged. Wesley has also dealt with matters involving disputed TUPE transfers and disputed employment status.

Wesley’s clients value his accessibility, attention to detail, and practical understanding of their position. He is strategically aware and always has an eye on his client’s ultimate objective. He advises his clients with pragmatism, but is known for his ability, where required, to deal with the other side robustly, in his pleadings, his cross-examination, and his advocacy.

Wesley holds an MA in Law from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and an LLM in International Business Law from King’s College London. During his LLM, he represented King’s at the 22nd Annual Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot in Vienna (2015), where he received an Honourable Mention as Best Individual Oralist.