Michael practices the following areas:
Michael accepts instructions arising from insurance disputes, whether from the insurers, policyholders or third parties.
His experience in this area includes, but is not limited to:
Michael’s experience predominantly lies in clinical negligence and in negligence committed by legal professionals.
Michael accepts instructions from both claimants and defendants in solicitor’s negligence matters.
Examples recent instructions include:
Michael accepts instructions , primarily from claimants, in clinical negligence claims and is keen to develop this aspect of his practice. He has particular experience of:
Michael accepts conditional fee work, subject to positive risk assessment, and has developed a sub-specialism in claims where limitation is in issue. Indeed, he recently lectured upon the subject of limitation in clinical negligence claims at an AVMA event.
Michael has more than 12 years of experience in litigation at the Bar, initially in England and Wales and latterly in the Cayman Islands, where he was called in 2012. During his time in the Cayman Islands, Michael dealt regularly with disputes arising in an international context, whether arising in a transactional/contractual, insolvency, quasi-criminal or tortious context. Michael has also dealt with a range of issues involving the regulation of financial institutions (predominantly hedge funds and corporate governance of the same) in the Cayman Islands (in conjunction with Richard Jones QC) with a heavy slant on the global impact of proposed domestic reforms.
Michael is able to bring to bear his practical experience in both the UK and in the Cayman Islands upon cross border disputes of all forms and has a good understanding of US state and federal systems in this context. Michael has particular interest in:
Michael accepts instructions on behalf of both claimants and defendants in fast track and multi track personal injury claims and has particular experience of:
Michael also accepts conditional fee work, subject to positive risk assessment, and has developed a strong sub-specialism in claims where limitation is in issue.
During his training for the Bar, Michael was awarded the Winston Churchill Pupillage Prize and the Sir Joseph Cantley Award by the Middle Temple.
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