Park Square Barristers

Commercial & Chancery

Having previously been in-house as a solicitor advocate at a large law firm, Lee accepts instructions a wide range of civil and commercial litigation matters.

Lee specialises in banking and financial services litigation, property litigation, claims concerning mortgages, competing interests in land, charges and security (including guarantees and indemnities), asset finance, professional negligence (particularly claims involving lawyers, expert witnesses, surveyors and valuers), product defects, consumer rights, and claims concerning the sale and supply of goods and services.

Lee has many years of experience of both prosecuting and defending claims against professionals.  Lee has a particular interest in claims against lawyers and surveyors.

Prior Career

2008-2010: Associate Solicitor, Litigation, Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP, 1 America Square, London acting for a range of national and international business and financial institutions in commercial & chancery litigation matters.

2010: Managing Associate, Litigation, Addleshaw Goddard LLP, 3 Sovereign Square, Sovereign Street. Regularly instructed to act on behalf of major financial institutions, SME's and FSTE companies.

In 2017, Lee became In-house Counsel undertaking a wide range of advocacy for the firm's major clients where he was frequently instructed to appear at costs and case management conferences, applications for relief from sanctions, trial, appeals in the High Court and Court of Appeal, together with a range of interim applications, including strike out/summary judgment, disclosure, and return of goods.

Public Access

Lee is qualified to accept Public Access work, where he can be instructed directly by a member of the public rather than a solicitor.

Call 2003 (Solicitor 2008)

2001 University of Derby, BA (Hons) in International Law and Politics

2002 University of Northumbria, Newcastle, Post-Graduate Diploma in Law