William practices across all Chambers core areas of work, with a focus on personal injury, commercial disputes, public & constitutional law, insolvency, housing and travel & aviation.
William practices across all Chambers core areas of work, with a focus on travel & aviation, housing, commercial disputes, company and insolvency and public and constitutional law.
William continues to build on the thriving court practice developed during the practicing period of his pupillage. He regularly appears in small claims and fast-track hearings, interim hearings up to multi-track level alongside possession and insolvency proceedings. He also maintains a busy paperwork practice across all his areas of expertise.
William is a member of the Attorney General’s Junior Junior scheme and has a strong commitment to pro bono work, having volunteered on several cases for Advocate during his pupillage.
Before joining Chambers, William worked at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and the UCL Constitution Unit. He contributed to research on the status of international law in the UK post-Brexit, the role of the law officers in the UK and the constitutional context for Brexit. During this time, he helped administer the All Party Parliamentary Group on the rule of law, coordinating with parliamentarians, academics and leading figures from legal practice. He previously gained a first-class PPE degree at the University of Exeter and studied at the University of Law and the Inns of Court College of Advocacy, during which time he was awarded multiple scholarships and prizes.
Outside of practice William likes to be on the water sailing, kitesurfing or windsurfing.
William specialises in all areas of personal injury and package/non-package travel matters. He regularly appears in County Court trials, application hearings and CCMCs.
William has particular interest in industrial disease litigation including noised induced hearing loss claims, sports related injuries and claims brought under the Animals Act 1971.
William regularly appears in claims concerning the application of EC Regulation 261, the Montreal Convention and carriers’ conditions of carriage. He has particular experience of cases that raise domestic and European case law regarding carriers’ re-routing obligations. In addition to court appearances William accepts instructions for pleadings and advices.
Drafting an advice on liability in negligence for a collision, on a carrier airside site, between an aircraft and scaffolding apparatus (as a pupil of Christopher Loxton)
Public Law and Privy Council Appeals
William has a particular interest in domestic administrative law as well as constitutional and public law matters from commonwealth jurisdictions. During pupillage he attended hearings in the Privy Council and gained experience drafting written submissions for the permission stage of JCPC appeals with Robert Strang, Charles Sorenen and Asela Wijeyaratne.
William is a member of Attorney General’s ‘Junior Junior’ Scheme receiving instructions from the Government Legal Department on matters concerning human rights claims, social entitlement, asylum and immigration. He has also advised pro bono through Advocate on several immigration matters and on the merits of judicial review claims (including against the Financial Ombudsman) and costs in judicial review.
Before coming to Chambers, William worked at the Bingham centre where he was a co-author of Delivery vs deliberation? Lessons in law-making from the last parliament. William was closely involved in drafting analysis regarding the compliance with international law and UK constitutional principle of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023.
William is developing a broad commercial chancery practice having gained experienced across multiple jurisdictions during pupillage. In particular William was exposed to company and trusts law litigation in Jersey and the Bahamas in addition to England and Wales.
William has a busy and varied insolvency practice regularly appearing as sole counsel in the County Court and before Insolvency and Companies Court judges.
He is regularly instructed to appear in winding-up and bankruptcy petitions, applications to set aside statutory demands and bespoke applications under the Insolvency Act 1986. In addition, William has particular expertise of insolvency matters in the context of business rates disputes.
His insolvency practice also extends to offshore work including Gibraltar.
William has a broad property law practice including landlord & tenant and disrepair matters as well as possession proceedings. He also accepts instructions to draft advices or statements of case in all aspects of property litigation.
William has a strong interest in banking and financial services. He is particularly interested in the judicial review of financial regulators and contracts for derivative products.
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