Employment: regularly appears in cases involving issues across the whole ambit of the employment jurisdiction of tribunals and the civil courts. As Junior Counsel for the Crown has for several years regularly represented government agencies and organisations such at HMPS, MOD, Customs and Excise, and The Probation Service... Has advised large employers on issues such as TUPE, contracting in and out, large-scale redundancies and variations of employment conditions. He also regularly represents ex-employees and other claimants. Reported case List Design Group -v- Douglas 2003 IRLR 14.
Planning: regularly represents and advises developers, local government and third parties in local plan, enforcement and section 78 appeal inquiries, planning prosecutions (for example for breach of the Listed Building Act) and in challenges against planning decisions to the Administrative Court. Notable inquiries have included representing Southampton City Council in a major inquiry into central parks improvements (1999), the New Forest Verderers at the New Forest National Park Inquiry (2003), Wiltshire County Council at the Stonehenge Improvement Inquiry (2004) and a local borough council in a highly controversial but successful attempt to omit in its local plan a major development area required by the structure plan (2005). Other issues dealt with in planning context include affordable housing, trees, conservation areas, industrial estates, retail parks, gypsies, travelling showpersons, change of use of pubs, caravan and mobile homes in the countryside, transport and urban capacity, waste and recycling, green-belts, flooding, tourism and farm redevelopment.
Land: advises and represents in cases involving land such as boundary disputes, easements, restrictive covenants, Party Wall Act, housing, right-to-buy, landlord and tenant, anti-social behaviour injunctions, possession claims in social-housing context, renewal of business tenancies, lease enfranchisement, contentious conveyancing, building disputes etc.
Reported cases:
Raglan Housing Assn -v- SCC & SW 2007 2 All ER 44; Forsythe-Grant -v- Allen 27 EGLR 2007 pg 118; R Martin -v- Medina HA 2007 1 All ER 813
General Chancery He has extensive experience over a wide range of other subjects such as wills, Inheritance Act Claims, partnership, contracts and consumer credit.
Direct professional access: authorised by the Bar Council and trained to receive instructions directly from members of the public and professionals without the assistance of a solicitor in suitable cases.