Alfred Weiss

Employment; Commercial; Professional Negligence; Insolvency; Public Law; Inquests; Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

Experienced Counsel who enjoys building a good rapport with his professional and lay clients alike.  An extremely effective advocate and advisor who is equally at home working as sole Counsel, or as part of a larger team with solicitors, fellow barristers and leading Counsel.  Expertise in a number of practice areas leaves him particularly well-placed to deal with cases that are multi-faceted and at the inter-play between his fields of expertise.   Has appeared at all level of Court up to and including the Court of Appeal.  A member of the Attorney General’s Regional Panel, is instructed by Central Government Departments and Agencies with great frequency.  A fluent Spanish speaker, he is happy to deploy his language skills in appropriate cases.

 Employment

Heavyweight statutory employment claims with an emphasis on discrimination, whistleblowing, and transfer of undertakings – regularly briefed in complex, high value and/or multi-week hearings Discrimination in goods and services Restrictive covenants, confidentiality, database rights, fiduciary duties – expertise in overlap between Commercial and Employment law Instructed by private employers, central government department and agencies, local authorities, individual employees ranging from shop-floor workers to directors, trade unions

Commercial

Breach of contract, sales of goods and services, economic torts Claims for breach of trust, unjust enrichment, monies had and received Injunctive relief Overlap between commercial and employment law

Professional Negligence

Experienced professional negligence practitioner including in claims against solicitors and barristers, accountants, lenders, finance professionals, surveyors, estate agents ‘mis-selling’ claims Acts for claimants and defendants

 Insolvency

Directors’ disqualification and public interest winding up Liquidator claims Corporate and personal insolvency Claims against IPs

Public law

Judicial Review – regularly instructed by Government Legal Department as member of Attorney General’s Regional Panel Claims for and against the police in particular malicious prosecution and unlawful arrest Human Rights Act claims and Data Protection Act claims

Inquests

Experienced in complex and lengthy inquests of up to four weeks’ duration Frequently instructed by Government Legal Department as member of Attorney General’s Panel Acts for public and private organisations, healthcare professionals, prison officers, Families

Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

Experienced in a range of personal injury, industrial disease and clinical negligence disputes up to and including cases of catastrophic injuries Experienced trial advocate and negotiator at JSM Particularly well-placed to deal with cases at interplay between Employment Law and Personal Injury

MA History, Churchill College, University of Cambridge (Class I, 2003, MA 2007) MPHIL History, Churchill College, University of Cambridge (Pass, 2004) Graduate Diploma in Law, College of Law (Distinction, 2005) Bar Vocational Course, College of Law (Very Competent, 2006) Lord Denning Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn (2005)