Year of Call: 2003
Clerk: Michael Lieberman
Phillip is a member of our civil team, with a practice area that includes chancery, commercial, administrative, employment and common law.
His work encompasses all aspects of chancery law including property, boundary and rights of way disputes in civil courts and in HM Land Registry Adjudications, and trusts, probate and Inheritance Act matters. Phillip also handles commercial and common law work including contract claims, building disputes, business tenancy renewals, and insolvency matters. His personal injury work involves fast track and multi track claims for claimants and defendants in matters such as road traffic accidents, including those where fraud is alleged, highway tripping claims and occupiers’ liability proceedings. He accepts Conditional Fee Agreement work in appropriate cases.
Phillip is also regularly instructed to handle employment cases. He appears for both claimants and respondents in the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. In the field of administrative law, his work includes judicial review matters, planning disputes and village green inquiries.
Some of Phillip’s most recent notable cases include being instructed as junior Counsel in judicial review proceedings concerning the closure of a primary school (2011) and appearing for four defendants in a five-day hearing over boundary and right-of-way issues (2011). He was also instructed in a multi-party accident claim involving damages in excess of £150,000 (2011 and ongoing) and successfully opposed an appeal in the Court of Appeal against the making of a suspended possession order in relation to residential premises (2008). He has also handled a professional negligence claim against a solicitor for failing to advise a client of a caution over a property, including successfully arguing a limitation point (2011).
Phillip is a member of the Wales Commercial Law Association. He was educated at Amman Valley School before going on to study at Jesus College, Oxford and Cardiff University. He is able to converse in Welsh.