Expertise
Areas of practice
Peter is instructed by solicitors and other professional clients across a broad civil practice.
Peter can be instructed for
- Trials and final hearings
- Interim applications
- Conferences
- Written advice
- Pleadings and drafting
- Case strategy
- Settlement advice
- Mediation and ADR
Civil & Commercial Litigation
Contractual and commercial disputes, debt and enforcement, sale of goods and services, agency and partnership disputes, and general civil claims in the County Court and High Court.
- Trials, fast track and multi-track
- Interim applications and case management hearings
- Pleadings, advices and case strategy
Personal Injury
A significant part of Peter's professionally instructed practice, covering liability and quantum from first advice through to trial.
- Trials and Stage 3 hearings
- Liability and quantum advices
- Pleadings, interlocutory hearings and settlement advice
Personal injury cases are not accepted on a Public Access basis. Public Access
Property, Housing & Landlord and Tenant
Possession proceedings, boundary and title disputes, residential and commercial landlord and tenant matters, and related injunctive relief.
- Possession and disrepair hearings
- Boundary and easement disputes
- Landlord and tenant advice and drafting
Professional Negligence
Claims against professionals, informed by many years of professional indemnity work undertaken previously as a solicitor.
- Advice on liability, causation and loss
- Pre-action correspondence and pleadings
- Settlement strategy and ADR
Insolvency
Corporate and personal insolvency work, including statutory demands, petitions and related applications.
- Winding-up and bankruptcy petitions
- Statutory demands and set-aside applications
- Advice to office-holders and respondents
Chancery / Contentious Private Client
Chancery litigation including trusts of land, estate and inheritance disputes, and related declaratory relief.
- TOLATA and co-ownership disputes
- Contentious probate and Inheritance Act claims
- Equitable remedies and declarations
Family
Family work is undertaken in appropriate cases. [PETER TO CONFIRM] — the scope of family work currently accepted.
- Hearings and advocacy
- Advice and drafting
Mediation & ADR
Peter is an experienced civil and commercial mediator as well as a barrister, and acts both as mediator and as advocate at mediation.
- Appointment as mediator in civil and commercial disputes
- Representation of parties at mediation
- Advice on ADR options and settlement
To discuss an instruction, please see fees and instructions or make an enquiry.