Stephen Arnold
Senior Practice Manager - Civil
0117 930 9000
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We have adopted a specialist team approach to our practices for many years. We feel that this is the way our clients want us to work, and that specialisation leads to the provision of a better service.
Stephen Arnold
Senior Practice Manager - Civil
0117 930 9000
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Joe Stayte
Practice Manager - Commercial, Insolvency, Property & Estates, Court of Protection (Property & Affairs)
0117 930 9000
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Finlay Duignan
Assistant Practice Manager - Commercial, Insolvency, Property & Estates, Court of Protection (Property & Affairs)
0117 930 9000
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Charlotte Blair
Assistant Practice Manager - Commercial, Insolvency, Property & Estates, Court of Protection (Property & Affairs)
0117 930 9000
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Nicholas Davidson KC is an experienced barrister in Commercial practices and Professional Liability.
Nicholas joined Guildhall as a Door Tenant in June 2022, he is a CEDR-accredited mediator.
Nicholas has decades of experience of claims against lawyers, both on the claimants’ side and on the defendants’ side, and this has taken him around the full spectrum of the law and to the highest Courts (e.g. AIB v Mark Redler & Co in the Supreme Court).
In recent years he has been involved in claims relating to problems over executive bonus arrangements, senior employee exit payments, Stamp Duty Land Tax, the administration of a potentially insolvent Estate, the flotation on AIM of an overseas business, loss of an option to acquire a freehold interest, and criticisms of the way in which lawyers have conducted litigation and arbitration. A frequent issue in this area of law is Limitation.
Nicholas also has decades of experience of such claims. This included the remarkable and successful claim by Harlequin Property against accountants Wilkins Kennedy. He is particularly interested in claims against investment professionals (in which predominantly he has acted for claimants rather than defendants), not least the extent to which risks are accurately identified and explained to clients and investments made in line with client expectation. More than 20 years’ experience as a D.B. pension trustee reflects his interest in the subject.
Nicholas has particular experience of issues as to professional indemnity insurance (including experience as an arbitrator), but also other general experience of insurance matters. He has been concerned with matters of corporate governance at the highest level (the executive bonus arrangements at Newcastle International Airport; a top-level governance fracture at one of Europe’s largest private companies; the governance of the National Union of Mineworkers, for whom he acted against its former President, Mr Arthur Scargill). There is a wide overlap between his lawyers’ liability practice and general commercial, contract-based work.
Stephen Arnold
Senior Practice Manager - Civil
0117 930 9000
Click here to email
Joe Stayte
Practice Manager - Commercial, Insolvency, Property & Estates, Court of Protection (Property & Affairs)
0117 930 9000
Click here to email
Finlay Duignan
Assistant Practice Manager - Commercial, Insolvency, Property & Estates, Court of Protection (Property & Affairs)
0117 930 9000
Click here to email
Charlotte Blair
Assistant Practice Manager - Commercial, Insolvency, Property & Estates, Court of Protection (Property & Affairs)
0117 930 9000
Click here to email
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