Chancery and Commercial, Court of Protection, Insolvency, Landlord & Tenant, Tax & Pensions, Wills, Probate & Trusts
Year of Call 1993
David has extensive experience in all aspects of landlord & tenant work, including agricultural, residential and commercial tenancies; leasehold covenants and construction of leases; leasehold enfranchisement; termination and renewal of business tenancies; break clauses and options; licences; forfeiture and possession; rent and service charge disputes; rent review; dilapidations; disputes before the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) and the agricultural land tribunals and leasehold valuation tribunals in Wales.
David specialises in all aspects of insolvency including bankruptcy and corporate insolvency; IVAs and CVAs; administration and receivership; applications by or against trustees in bankruptcy, liquidators and administrators; unfair prejudice petitions; transactions at an undervalue and preferences; commercial and contractual disputes; directors and shareholders disputes; company law; company governance, dissolution and restoration; directors disqualification; all aspects of partnership and LLP law, partnership disputes, partnership dissolution and winding up.
David specialises in all aspects of real property work, including boundaries and boundary disputes; restrictive covenants; rights of way and easements; mortgages and charges; LPA receivers; contracts and specific performance; conveyancing and title issues; unregistered land; registered land; Land Registry disputes and disputes before the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber – Land Registration division); adverse possession; proprietary estoppel; party walls; options; nuisance and trespass.
David appeared in McLaughlin v Duffill [2010] Ch 1 (specific performance, agent’s authority to sign contract, inapplicability of s.53 Law of Property Act 1925).
David specialises in all aspects of probate and trusts work, including wills and trust drafting and construction; contentious and non-contentious probate disputes; undue influence, fraud, forgery and testamentary capacity disputes; trusts and beneficial interest disputes; claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996; claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975; administration of estates; Beddoes applications and administration actions; intestate succession; variations of trusts; charities and charitable trusts; inheritance tax and capital gains tax relating to trusts and estates; appointment and removal of, and duties and powers of, executors, administrators and trustees; Court of Protection, deputies, powers of attorney and statutory wills.
David specialises in all aspects of professional negligence disputes relating to solicitors, accountants, surveyors, architects, insolvency practitioners and similar professionals.
David specialises in the area of highways, bridleways, footpaths and other public rights of way and the registration of, and disputes concerning, town and village greens and common land.
Chancery Bar Association
Northern Chancery Bar Association
Northern Circuit
LLB (Hons) Lancaster University
Inns of Court School of Law