Park Square Barristers

Personal Injury, Commercial & Chancery and Regulatory & Public

Property

James practises across the entire array of housing matters, taking instructions from Local Authorities, Social Landlords, Private Landlords and tenants.

James’ experience includes straightforward possession, disrepair and unlawful eviction cases; he has a particular interest in Public Law defences.

Recent cases involve defending complex disrepair counterclaims and public law defences relying on Shearer misrepresentations in succession.

Areas of practice

• Possession claims
• Disrepair claims
• Anti-social behaviour possession cases and injunctions
• Unlawful eviction
• Commercial landlord and tenant disputes
• Disputes over the right to buy and succession claims
• Housing related appeals
• Public Law and Human Rights Defences

Public Access

James Wilson may accept Public Access work, where he can be instructed directly by a member of the public rather than a solicitor.

Personal injury & clinical negligence

James is an experienced personal injury practitioner. He is available for high value Fast Track and Multi-Track claims. His experience includes serious injuries arising from road traffic accidents, pubic liability and accidents at work; the latter overlaps with James’ Health and Safety and Coronial practise.

James also has extensive experience in all aspects of fraudulent cases including fundamental dishonesty and s57 of Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. He regularly acts for all the major solicitors and insurers in this sector.

James is available to advise both in person and on paper and has a strong paper practise settling pleadings.

James will always make himself available to those who instruct him on the telephone and via email.

James regularly delivers talks and provides training on all aspects of personal injury litigation.

If you would like to book James for a talk, please contact his clerks.

Commercial & Chancery

James approaches all cases in a pragmatic and objective manner. He is able to provide realistic and commercially sound advice at all stages of a case.

James appears regularly in Multi-Track and High Court cases.
For those cases which are not compromised, James is a robust and very well prepared advocate for whom no detail is too small. He prides himself on well planned and well executed cross examinations.

Contract

James’ focus is on breaches of commercial contracts. His keen commercial awareness makes him well-placed to advise and act on all aspects of potential breaches/causes of action. He provides pragmatic advice and will assist clients in pitching well-placed Part 36 offers as well as attending settlement meetings. If matters should go to trial, he is always diligently prepared and is robust and forensic in his cross-examination.

Clubs/Unincorporated Associations

James has great experience dealing with Unincorporated Associations. The issues in these cases often go outside of simple legal and factual disputes and James is well placed to advise on the use of ADR and attend in those instances. Pleadings need to be done carefully and James is happy to assist at any stage.

Insurance

James frequently advises insurers in relation to all aspects of their contractual and non-contractual obligations, including breaches of the contracts of insurance, avoidance of indemnity and other obligations arising out of indemnity insurance; such as those under the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Article 75 of the Memorandum of Understanding.

Rights of way/trespass

James has experience acting for large landowners in relation to claims for trespass and nuisance, including claims against neighbouring land which has built new properties in breach of easements and defending claims for nuisance for failure to properly maintain rights of way.

Public Access

James Wilson may accept Public Access work, where he can be instructed directly by a member of the public rather than a solicitor.

Regulatory & Public

James accepts instructions in cases arising out of serious or fatal injuries in the workplace. He is able to provide advice at an early stage and deal with all areas of court proceedings thereafter.

James routinely acts for insurance companies in personal injury and HSE prosecutions and is well placed to advise defendant companies and insurers at the first sign of HSE involvement or civil claims.

James also regularly attends coroner’s inquests and is available to act in other regulatory cases, with special interests in Health and Safety and Environmental / Waste Management prosecutions an area in which James is assisted by his Bsc (Hons) in Geo-chemistry.

Professional Discipline

James has a successful professional discipline practice. He regularly drafts, advises and presents for professional bodies such as the NMC and SWE. This also crosses over with his increasing inquest practice where he often represents professionals such as GP’s and Paramedics, where he is able to assist with any potential disciplinary proceedings arising from the inquest.

James sits on the Yorkshire RFU discipline Committee and the National RFU discipline committee. Whilst he is, at present, unable to assist rugby union players, he is well placed to represent other sports people who are subject to discipline proceedings.

James can also act in all other professional disciplinary tribunals including but not limited to:

• Doctors
• Accountants
• Solicitors
• Teachers
• Fire Fighters

James is also available to assist clients in the following areas:

• Care Quality Commission
• Firearms; appeals and prosecutions
• Food safety/hygiene
• Licensing Hackney Carriage
• Licensing Premise
• Local Authority/District Council Prosecutions
• Sporting disciplinary (especially rugby union)
• Trading Standards

Coronial Law

James is an experienced inquest advocate. He represents professional bodies, companies, healthcare professionals and families, alike. His experience in personal injury and healthcare professional discipline is of great advantage to clients in the coronial arena.

Call 2005

North Eastern Circuit Personal Injury Bar Association Yorkshire RFU Disciplinary Panel

2002 University of Leeds, BSc (Hons)

2003 College of Law, York, PgDL

2005 University of Northumbria, BVC (Very Competent)