Year of Call: 1974
Clerk: Michael Lieberman

Jeffrey is a highly-experienced barrister in the civil law team. He specialises in solicitors’ professional negligence and costs; insolvency; real property (including landlord and tenant); chancery and commercial cases; and administrative law, particularly planning.

Jeffrey is Real Property Counsel to the Welsh National Assembly and a member of the Chancery Bar Association and Wales and Chester Circuit. He is also a registered lawyer with the Football Association.

Some of Jeffrey’s most recent notable cases include Sommer (2009 - High Court, Chancery Division), a follow-up to Sweet v Sommer ([2004] 4 All E R 288; [2005] 2 AER 64 CA), where his clients were recovering their indemnity costs from a defendant who, when sued, owned three substantial properties but now claimed to be penniless. By applying directly under s423 Insolvency Act 1986, without bankruptcy proceedings thus avoiding interposing an insolvency practitioner, Jeffrey obtained early part-payment and a charge over the properties in their new ownership.

In The Glade, Shirley (2011, Mr L Blohm QC, Inspector), Jeffrey defeated a local attempt to stifle a small development on village green grounds and in Robin Hood Recycling Ltd (2011, Companies Court), Jeffrey obtained High Court orders removing liquidators and declaring that another Licensed Insolvency Practitioner who acted as liquidator was not authorised to do so. Indemnity costs were awarded against the liquidators and quasi-liquidator, who were further refused permission to reimburse themselves from the company’s estate.

In Manor of Ireby, Ireby Fell (2010, HM Land Registry Adjudicator), Jeffrey defended the registration of title to the Lordship of a Manor with 360 acres of adjacent manorial waste. After complex historical and legal argument over two weeks, the clients retained the land even though it was found that the manorial title had become extinguished in 1605.

Jeffrey was educated at The Latymer School, Edmonton before obtaining his MA in Natural Sciences and Social Anthropology at Cambridge. He attended the College of Law and was called in 1974.

Jeffrey is authorised to receive instructions under Public Access rules.