Bargyfreithiwr > Winston Roddick CB Q.C.

Administrative:

Central, devolved and local government (including tendering and procurement), planning and environment law, information law (including Data Protection Act), judicial review, public inquiries, licensing and immigration law.

Chancery & Commercial:

Land law including landlord and tenant and Lands Tribunal applications, wills, trusts, inheritance and family provision.

Common Law:

Law of contract, building and construction, negligence (including personal injuries) and all other torts other than defamation.

Crime:

Prosecutes and defends in high-profile fraud cases and other serious crimes.  He has experience of prosecutions in health and safety, food safety, Companies Act, Care Standards Act and pollution cases.

Clients include national and international businesses (he is presently involved in matters in Trinidad and Tobago and Jersey CI), central devolved and local governments, statutory authorities including police authorities, environmental authorities and planning authorities and private developers.

LLB (Hons) and LLM, University College, London

Leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit (elected 2007)

Recorder

Honorary Recorder of Caernarfon

Bencher, Gray’s Inn

Past member of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Council and representative of the Wales and Chester Circuit on the General Council of the Bar.

Honorary Fellow, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Professional Negligence Bar Association

FOI seminars in London and Wales (CLT)

Planning and Environment Law seminars, Wales (CLT)

Local Authority Prosecutions (CLT)

Companies Act 2006, London

Doing Business in the UK (USA)

The changing constitution (University of Cork)

Regulatory Reform (Law Society, Dublin)

From 1998 to October 2003 Winston Roddick was Counsel General to the National Assembly for Wales.    As such he had responsibility for advising the Assembly on all legal matters including, in particular, public and constitutional law, employment and disciplinary tribunals, information law, including the Data Protection Act.   In recognition of his services to the Welsh Assembly, Winston Roddick was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 2000.  He is a fluent Welsh speaker and has conducted civil and criminal proceedings through the medium of the Welsh language.

Jim Williams