Barrister > Gwydion Hughes
| Year of call : | 1994 |
| Area of Practice : | Chancery & Commercial Common Law Administrative Gwydion Hughes undertakes general commercial, chancery and administrative work including company law and insolvency, land law, probate and trusts, inheritance and family provision, local govenrment, planning, landlord & tenant and professional negligence. He combines regular appearances in the mercantile and chancery jurisditions, both in Cardiff and further afield, with public inquiry work as well as advisory work and pleadings. |
| Notable Cases : | - Advisory and advocacy work for the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales; - Instruction on behalf of the Bishop of St David’s in relation to judicial review of one of his decisions as the Visitor to the University of Wales, College Lampeter; - Instruction by the Vale of Glamorgan County Council in relation to proprietary rights; - Instruction by Newport County Borough Council in landlord and tenant matters; - Joint instruction by the Council of the City and County of Cardiff and the developer in relation to stopping up highways to permit commencement of the Callaghan II Development in Cardiff. |
| Recommendations : | Gwydion is recommended in the Legal 500 and the Chambers UK directory in relation to commercial and chancery work. |
| Education : | LLB (Hons) (University of Wales, College Cardiff ) |
| Professional Memberships : | Chancery Bar Association |
| Seminars : | "Judicial Review in Planning Cases", with Milwyn Jarman QC and Nicholas Cooke QC under the auspices of the Law Society in Wales "Conflicts of Interest and Solicitors", Wales Commercial Law Association Gwydion assists in the provision of advocacy training on chancery and commercial work for the Wales Circuit. |
| Further Information : | Gwydion is a fluent Welsh speaker. Before undertaking pupillage at 9 Park Place (1994-95) he worked as a political researcher to Lord Emlyn Hooson QC at the House of Lords. From 1997-98 he tutored on the Bar Vocational Course, Centre for Professional Legal Studies, University of Wales, College Cardiff. |
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