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AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Commercial Disputes
  Including sale and supply of goods, misrepresentation, invoice recovery, retention of title, intellectual property, agency, carriage of goods and general contract.
• Consumer Credit
  Including the recovery of property.
• Probate
  Disputes over the administration of estates and Inheritance Act applications.
• Property
  Damage to property, boundary disputes, applications under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act and building disputes.
• Landlord & Tenant
  Both domestic and commercial including possession applications, forfeiture and applications for new tenancies under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954.
• Housing
  Claimant and Defendant disrepair, possession and “nuisance neighbour” cases for private and Local Authority clients including the leading cases of Wallace v Manchester City Council (1998) 30 HLR 1111, New Charter Housing v Ashcroft [2004] HLR 36, Manchester City Council v Romano [2004] 4 A11 ER 21.
• Mortgages & Banking
  Barclays Bank v O’Brien cases, constructive trusts and damage to reputation through negligent credit references for borrowers/commercial lenders.
• Company & Partnership
  Director’s disqualifi cation, re-instatement of liquidated companies, Section 459 petitions and insolvent partnership.
• Bankruptcy & Insolvency
  Including complex and simple winding up, voluntary arrangements, annulments and appeals.