Commercial
William has acted in disputes concerning agency, bailment, bankruptcy, civil fraud, commercial leases, company law, conversion, directors’ duties, financial regulation, injunctions, insolvency, partnership, and sale of goods, as well as general contractual matters. He is able to accept appropriate commercial instructions on a direct access basis.
Experience includes:
Sale of Goods
- Acting for a major distributor of laser cutting machines facing a High Court claim for over half a million pounds, arising from the supply of machinery alleged to have been of unsatisfactory quality.
- Representing the purchaser of a high-performance sports car at an Intermediate Track trial in London. The purchaser brought a claim for breach of contract and misrepresentation, relying especially on the Sale of Goods Act 1979. Judgment was entered in full against the dealer which supplied the car.
- Acting for the purchaser of a high-performance range cooker in a dispute as to who owned the cooker, and whether it had been wrongfully converted by an agent and/or a dealer.
Agency
- Acting for an energy broker facing a substantial claim from a former client. The claim involved losses alleged to have arisen from volatile natural gas prices, and an alleged failure by the broker to follow its client’s instructions as to when, and on what terms, certain contracts should have been placed.
- Acting for a financial professionals recruitment agency in its claim for breach of contract and unpaid fees against a former client.
- Acting for the executors of deceased’s person’s estate in a claim by a well-known estate agency for fees alleged to have become due following the sale of a valuable house in London.
- Acting for a firm of independent financial planners seeking to recover damages for breach of contract from a former agent, arising from the firm’s outlay pursuant to an FCA redress scheme.
Contractual Disputes
- Acting for a former partner in a law firm, who was suing the firm for a six-figure sum representing unpaid fees, commissions and/or partnership proceeds.
- Acting for clients attempting to extricate themselves from a commercial licencing agreement, in circumstances where they no longer wished to receive the benefit of the subject matter of the licence, but their counterparty asserted that they were obliged to pay the licence fees in any event.
- Acting for a firm of auditors in its claim against a former client for unpaid fees. The former client counterclaimed, but the matter settled before trial on terms favourable to the firm of auditors.
- Acting for a transport company in a contractual dispute with a public authority which was seeking to rectify a licence it granted to the company. The licence was alleged to have been agreed on the basis of a mutual mistake.
William is a member of the Commercial Bar Association.
Selected Cases
View full profile »Awards
• Lord Denning Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn, 2021)
• Senior Advocacy Scholarship (The University of Law, 2021)
• Lord Brougham Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn, 2020)
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Qualifications
• Bar Practice Course (Outstanding); The University of Law
• GDL (Distinction); The University of Law
• MA Music (First Class); King’s College, Cambridge
Memberships
- BILA
- COMBAR
- PNBA
- SCL
- TECBAR
