Profile description
Before embarking on his career at the Bar, Anthony practised as a Chartered Engineer in the offshore, railway and automotive industries. As an engineer he regularly advised in health and safety, and product liability matters. Anthony is able to bring especial insights to cases where there is scientific, engineering or statistical evidence.
'Thank you very much for a very thorough and very positive advice. Your attention to detail Anthony is really 1st class. This is (again) excellent.' Dominic Kelly - Harding Evans
Commercial, chancery and property
Anthony acts both for claimants and for defendants in a broad spectrum of commercial law. He brings particular skills where there is complex accounting or engineering evidence.
- Commercial and Residential Property law (primarily Landlord and Tenant)
- Possession and Repossession claims
- Sevice Charges
- First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)
- Boundaries and Easements
- Contractual disputes and debt recovery
- Claims relating to vehicles
- Company law
- Construction disputes
- Bankruptcy & Insolvency
- Professional negligence, especially against engineers, architects and software developers
- Aviation law
- Passing off, malicious falsehood, and breaches of confidence and copyright.
Costs
Anthony acts for paying and receiving parties in applications and detailed assessments to which he brings a highly developed sense of commercial risk.
- Inter partes assessments
- Solicitor-client costs disputes
- Wasted costs applications
- Costs in tribunals
- Costs in insolvency proceedings
Anthony acts both for claimants and for defendants in all aspects of personal injury law, including: employers’ and occupiers’ liability, highways claims, holiday and leisure claims, MIB claims, claims involving suspicions and allegations of fraud, and fatal accidents. Anthony brings his substantial scientific and engineering experience to product liability cases. Anthony appears in CICA appeals and is instructed in inquests.
Qualifications
BSc Hons Mathematics and Physics (University of Manchester), GDipL (Manchester Metropolitan University), BVC (Manchester Metropolitan University),
Professional Memberships
Personal Injuries Bar Association, Institute of Physics, Royal Statistical Society,