Practice
David
has experience of all of chambers' main practice areas, with
particular emphasis to date on financial services, banking,
professional negligence and commercial fraud.
Financial
Services
- Advises on all aspects of the regulation of insurance,
banking and investment.
- Instructed in claims relating to unauthorised collective
investments scheme, negligent investment advice, SCARPs
(precipice bonds), endowment mis-selling and appointed representatives.
- Financial Services Authority: Seconded in 2005 to the General
Counsel Division of the FSA. Subsequently involved in drafting
Handbook text implementing the Capital Requirements Directive
and as part of the COB Simplification project. Instructed
by the FSA in a number of Part VII transfer hearings.
- Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority: Retained as
a consultant advising on the drafting of bespoke Conduct
of Business and Collective Investment Scheme legislation.
Recently advised in connection with the proposed merger
of the QFCRA with other Qatari regulators.
- Broderick & Another v Centaur Tipping Service Ltd, ChD
(Master Teverson) 27.7.06 (Lawtel)
Banking
- Regularly instructed in relation to disputes between banks and
customers and in actions for the enforcement of securities and
the protection of mortgagees' security interests.
- Currently acting for sureties in two separate claims by banks
to enforce personal guarantees.
- Acted for banks and suppliers in a number of hire purchase disputes.
Commercial Fraud
- Currently instructed on an LCIA arbitration relating to the
disappearance of commodities held by a bank as collateral against
a credit facility.
- Jafari-Fini v Skillgass: junior in eight day trial in the Chancery
Division concerning bribery and the alleged repudiation of a
facility agreement.
- Currently instructed as sole counsel in a claim against a bank
arising out of a £400,000 cheque fraud.
- Advised multi-national company in a claim to recover costs expended
in the investigation of an internal invoice fraud.
Professional Negligence / Construction
- Currently instructed in a claim against a surveyor for failure
to detect structural alterations in a residential house.
- Acted for a property developer in a claim against an architectural
services company for negligent preparation of designs.
- Acted in a claim against a surveyor for failure to detect asbestos
in a residential house.
- Acted for a residential letting agency in a claim for alleged
professional negligence and breach of contract in the selection
of tenants.
- Assisted in the preparation of a highly technical claim against
construction professionals in respect of the negligent design
and construction of a roof.
- Advising a school in a claim relating to the negligent installation
of a telephone and fire alarm system.
- Advised on a claim by a Council against an engineering services
company relating to a transport infrastructure project.
Insurance and Re-Insurance
- Instructed as a junior in an arbitration relating to the scope
of reinsurance coverage in respect of thoroughbred bloodstock
losses arising in Kentucky.
- Instructed as a junior junior in Commercial Court litigation
relating to the placement of professional indemnity policy.
- Advised a brokerage firm on coverage of professional indemnity
policies for construction professionals.
- Advised a mortgage provider in Jersey on third party rights
under a home insurance policy.
General Commercial
- Assisted in drafting statement of case in LCIA arbitration acting
involving alleged breach of distribution agreement regarding
supply of oil product to Eastern Europe.
Company / Insolvency
- Experience of general insolvency work, including winding up
and bankruptcy petitions, statutory demands and injunctions
to restrain presentation of winding up petitions.
Scholarships
and Awards
Somerset
Ivor Scholarship, Brasenose College, Oxford, 1998
David Karmal Entrance Award, Gray's Inn, 2001
Lord Justice Holker Award, Gray's Inn, 2002
Professional
Membership
Gray's
Inn
COMBAR
Before coming to the Bar David worked for the Busoga
Trust, a charity which installs clean water sources in
rural Uganda. He is still involved in raising funds for this
work.
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