Ten Old Square

Commercial Litigation; Property Litigation; Professional Regulation

Barrister specialising in commercial and property-related issues of chancery work, including Lloyds’ Names, the regulation of financial services professionals, solicitors, accountants and surveyors.

Qualified 1987; Gray's Inn

Legal Member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Conservative Party. Former Legal Member (and occasional Chairman) of the Disciplinary Committee, the Admissions and Licensing Committee and the Appeals Committee of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Former elected Member of the Bar Council and the Bar Council Remuneration Committee.

Publications:

A Brief Guide to Modern Manorial Law – March 2025 Paul Stafford – Ten Old Square – Third party Mineral Rights talk – 2018 Infrastructure Act 2015 – Free to Frack? What does the future hold for manorial rights? Deadlines for Manorial Title Holders Manorial rights – Title Challenge Re-constructing Manorial Title

French, Italian.

Chancery Bar Association, Ecclesiastical Law Society.

MA (First Class Hons in Modern History): Christ Church, Oxford D. Phil (on the Mediterranean origins of the Second World War): St Antony’s College, Oxford Diploma in Law: City University, London Certificate in Theology (University of Wales) Holker Scholar, Gray’s Inn Karmel Prize in Chancery law, Gray’s Inn

Reading history and theology; keeping fit.