Northern Circuit
Profile
Work Department
Commercial; Insolvency
Position
John has a broad practice, encompassing all aspects of commercial, property and insolvency law. He accepts instructions in a variety of areas of law including:
Commercial
- Contractual disputes of all kinds
- Banking, finance and asset recovery
- Professional negligence
- Sale of goods
- Construction
- Partnership Disputes
Property
- Possession Actions by Mortgagees, LPA Receivers and Landlords
- Disrepair Actions by Tenants
- Leasehold Enfranchisement
- Actions for Service Charges and Administration Charges
- Actions for unlawful eviction
- Complaints against Bailiffs
- Liability Orders for Business Rates and Council Tax
- Boundary Disputes
- Business Tenancy Disputes
- Disputes under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
Insolvency
- Personal Bankruptcy including Bankruptcy Petitions and Applications to Set- Aside
- Statutory Demands
- Public Examination of Bankrupts
- Corporate Insolvency including Winding-up Petitions and Applications to Set- Aside
- Orders for Sale by the Trustee in Bankruptcy
- Administration Applications and Applications for extension of an Administrator’s term of office
- Applications for directions to office holders from the court
He also has experience of wills and probate, including contentious probate claims.
Career
Called 2010
Memberships
- Northern Chancery Bar Association
- Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
- Northern Circuit
- Property Bar Association
Education
- St Olave’s Grammar School, Orpington, 1997-2004
- MA (Cantab), Law with Management Studies, Girton College, Cambridge (II.i, 2004-2008)
- BVC, Manchester Metropolitan University (Very Competent, 2009-2010)
- Pupillage at Exchange Chambers
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