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

Mr Alfred Weiss

0113 203 1970 [email protected] View profile

Work Department

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

Position

Alfred is a specialist in business disputes involving: commercial contracts; shareholder disputes; partnership and joint venture disputes; directors’ duties; employment-related duties and employment disputes; obligations of confidentiality.

Very often his cases have an insolvency dimension, a cross-border element, or feature allegations of commercial fraud.

He appears in substantial High Court trials and applications, and in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal.

He is regularly instructed to obtain urgent injunctive relief, such as freezing orders, proprietary injunctions, and injunctions to enforce restrictive covenants.

Alfred appears in arbitrations, national and international, under rules such as the ICC and LCIA, and in related High Court proceedings such as challenges to arbitration awards pursuant to sections 67 and/or 68 Arbitration Act 1996.

He is a member of the Attorney-General’s A Panel of Counsel.

Career

Called 2006; Junior Counsel to the Crown (2012)

Memberships

• North Eastern Circuit
• Industrial Law Society
• Personal Injury Bar Association
• Northern Circuit Chancery Bar Association
• Northern Circuit Commercial 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)

Leisure

Alfred spends his spare time with his wife and three young children, as well watching his football team as often as he can, and walking his dog.