Selborne Chambers

Ian continues to be ranked in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 for his expertise in the core areas of his practice: Commercial, Real Estate/Property litigation, Professional negligence and Private client (wills and trusts). Rated as “one of the finest advocates; fiendishly clever, with an excellent eye for detail” and for being “calm, affable, tactically astute, and most of all a persuasive advocate”, he is also commended for building a good rapport with clients, with whom “[he] engages well…. and has his own particular style – direct, to the point and with good humour”. His practice in this jurisdiction, the Caribbean and Gibraltar involves substantial commercial contractual disputes; issues of fraud, trusts/probate, insolvency and professional negligence and conflict of laws. He also regularly undertakes instructions relating to land (especially on land registration matters) and mortgages (on which he co-edits one of the two practitioner texts). He has acted as an expert in foreign proceedings. He has been a part-time judge since 2004 and a fellow of the CIArb since 1997. His practice includes appearing in arbitrations and sitting as an arbitrator. He is on the QICCA Panel of Arbitrators. He also has extensive experience of acting as a mediator, particularly in real property and insolvency matters.

Called 1990 Lincoln’s Inn; Silk 2016. Publications: Wolstenholme & Cherry’s Annotated Land Registration Act 2002 (2003 Sweet & Maxwell) co-author on The Law of Mortgages (2nd – 4th editions, Sweet & Maxwell).

Chancery Bar Association; Property Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists; Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (LLB Hons).