Daniel has experience across a range of commercial and chancery litigation, including civil fraud, contractual, resitutionary and breach of trust claims. Since starting tenancy, his work has included advice, pleadings, skeleton arguments and regular court appearances in substantive and interlocutory hearings. He also has experience working in-house at solicitors’ firms, having spent several months on secondment to the commercial litigation department of Peters & Peters LLP.
Notable Commercial and Chancery cases
Drafting statements of case in a construction dispute arising out of the Hinkley Point nuclear power station project.
Assisting with drafting statements of case for a multi-million-pound breach of contract and unjust enrichment claim relating to a series of property developments.
Advising on the enforcement of a C$16,000,000 Canadian judgment under the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933.
Advising (as junior counsel) in an ICC arbitration concerning railway infrastructure supply contracts.
Advising in relation to breach of trust and devastavit claims against personal representatives.
Acting in claims brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
Assisting, as a pupil, Simon Davenport QC and Tom Poole in Re One Blackfriars Ltd; Hyde v Bannon [2017], a successfully resisted interlocutory application that concerned the relationship between the CPR and Insolvency Rules as part of a multi-million pound claim against former administrators of a company.
As a pupil, Daniel assisted Richard Samuel in Tenaga Nasional Berhad v Frazer-Nash Research [2018] EWHC 1848 (QB), an application to register Malaysian judgments under the Administration of Justice Act 1920.
As a pupil, assisting James Guthrie QC in advising on title to a Middle Eastern antiquity.
As a pupil, assisting Peter Knox QC in an application for an interim injunction in the Privy Council as part of a dispute concerning a contract to operate onshore oil fields.
