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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 3David Hoffman – 18 St John Street Chambers ‘David has excellent knowledge of the law and he is very practical. He is good with clients, reliable, and delivers good results.’
18 St John Street Chambers boasts ‘a wide range of barristers who cover all issues that arise in commercial litigation’, and one such barrister is head of chambers Richard Chapman KC, who has particular expertise in commercial contract disputes. The set is also home to Elisabeth Tythcott, who frequently appears before the High Court and the Business and Property courts. She acted for the claimant in CW & CG Claims Ltd v Clarkewood Ltd and Mohammed, a case concerning a claim for breach of contract where allegations of fraud were also made. David Hoffman is another key name in this space.