Commercial & Chancery, Employment Personal Injury, Civil Fraud and Personal Injury

Darren Finlay is the head of our civil team.

Commercial & ChanceryDarren’s core work includes a wide variety of contract and commercial disputes including litigation over land, boundary and neighbour disputes, chancery matters (including insolvency). He resists or applies for injunctions and associated committal proceedings and matters relating to restrictive covenants, the administration of trusts and the dissolution of or other disputes relating to partnershipsand actions on guarantees/indemnities.

Darren also deals with wills and probate matters and Court of Protection or Inheritance Act claims, disputes within companies (such as claims by oppressed minorities), the sale of companies and shares and property, insolvency matters, fraud claims and export trade claims involving letters of credit and contractual claims in respect of a wide variety of matters from large commercial transactions down to faulty goods and services. Darren is fully literate with ICT and experienced in mediation and arbitration.

He also deals with non-contentious matters including drafting insurance and commercial contracts and heads of agreement and business plans for well-known corporate clients.

Darren’s experience of professional negligence claims includes solicitor’s negligence, accountant’s negligence, and architect’s and surveyor’s negligence claims, up to and including trial.  He also deals with regulatory matters that impinge on professional conduct (including disciplinary hearings).  and education tribunal matters.

He also deals with contract cases, holiday claims, timeshare matters, suing for debts, and for breach of contract remedies (including injunctive relief) land disputes (boundary matters, neighbour disputes, rights of way and alike) and advises on trusts and commercial disputes, landlord and tenant and construction cases and many similar such common-law disputes.

EmploymentDarren deals with unfair dismissal and discrimination cases and has experience of long trials and group litigation. Darren also has experience in professional disciplinary hearings, health & safety prosecutions and defences/mitigation, and partnership and commercial disputes including restrictive covenants.

Darren has advised major local authorities and public clients on redundancies and restructuring and appeared at tribunal and EAT on discrimination, redundancy and unfair dismissal claims for claimants and respondents.

Personal InjuryDarren handles cases for defendant insurers (including RTA, EL and PL, fraud, OL and disease work), as well as claimant personal injury (PI) work of all types and including deafness, vibration white finger (VWF), COPD and asbestos cases.

He provides advice, paper work and advocacy for road-traffic, public liability and employer’s liability fraud cases, and has successfully defended all types of case at trial: with a significant amount of insurer backed defendant/fraud work.

Civil FraudDarren's work also extends to knowledge of company law, bankruptcy/insolvency, and health & safety matters, all of which can prove useful when advising in fraud cases.

Call 1994

Appointments:Local Accountability Board Governor - White Rose Academies Leeds

1993Keele University, BA (Hons) Law, Management Studies (joint honours) and Computer Science (first)

1994Inns of Court School of Law, BVC