Stephen Arnold
Senior Practice Manager - Civil
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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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Charlie Georgeson
Assistant Practice Manager - Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Employment & Discrimination, Court of Protection (Health & Welfare), Costs & Litigation Funding
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Nicholas Evans is a member of the Commercial and Property & Estates teams.
He is regularly instructed to appear as sole counsel in the High Court, County Court and First-tier Tribunal, and is also often instructed to act as junior counsel in more complex matters.
Along with Commercial and traditional Chancery work, Nicholas also has considerable advisory and litigation experience in Financial Services, regularly helping to advise the Financial Conduct Authority, firms and private individuals on consumer credit and retail banking issues.
Nicholas has been ranked as ‘Rising Star’ in Chancery, tax and probate in the 2025 Legal 500.
Nicholas has acted for clients in a range of Real Property matters, including Landlord & Tenant (commercial, residential and rural), easements and profits, restrictive covenants and boundary disputes. This extends to property disputes in an insolvency context.
Nicholas has litigation and advisory experience in the following key areas:
Recent cases include:
Hamilton v Attorney-General [2022] EWHC 2132 (Ch) [2022] BPIR 1427
Nicholas was led by Stefan Ramel in a claim by trustees in bankruptcy and a Guernsey company for a vesting order in relation to a castle in North Somerset. The case raised complex issues of international company, insolvency and property law including in relation to the consequences of dissolution of a company, bona vacantia and escheat.
Nicholas has considerable experience in handling cases regarding wills, inheritance and trust disputes. This extends to probate disputes in an insolvency context and insolvent estates.
Nicholas has litigation and advisory experience in the following key areas:
Recent cases include:
Khilji (In Bankruptcy), Re [2023] EWHC 298 (Ch)
Nicholas acted for the successful administrator of an estate where the deceased had died intestate. The case concerned whether beneficiary’s residual interest vested in her on the death of the deceased and whether that residual interest was an interest for the purposes of s.283A(1) IA 1986. The case also raised for the first-time what knowledge a trustee in bankruptcy was required to have before time began running pursuant to s.283A(5) IA 1986, the so call “use it or lose it” provision.
Hamilton v Attorney-General [2022] EWHC 2132 (Ch) [2022] BPIR 1427
Nicholas was led by Stefan Ramel in a claim by trustees in bankruptcy and a Guernsey company for a vesting order in relation to a castle in North Somerset. The case raised complex issues of international company, insolvency and property law including in relation to the consequences of dissolution of a company, bona vacantia and escheat.
Nicholas has a diverse commercial practice focusing on breach of contract disputes which often include a property dimension, such as mortgage disputes. Nicholas also regularly advises on and acts in cases concerning professional negligence including claims against solicitors, barristers, surveyors, architects, insurers, veterinarians, estate agents and conveyancers.
Nicholas has litigation and advisory experience in the following key areas:
Recent cases include:
Lord v Kinsella [2023] EWHC 2748 (Ch)
Nicholas was successfully led by Hugh Sims KC in a complex multi-million pound arbitration concerning an unincorporated associated members club. The matter involved construction of constitutional documents and complex questions on the circumstances in which an agent will act as a fiduciary, the extent of those duties and what remedies are available if an agent had acted in breach of their fiduciary duties. Nicholas also assisted on the appeal and subsequent costs arguments.
Nicholas is a specialist in consumer credit and the financial services regulatory regime. Nicholas undertakes work in relation to regulated credit agreements, regulated mortgage contracts, payment services and crypto currencies. Nicholas is able to advise on perimeter and regulatory issues as well as act in litigation for both lenders and borrowers.
Consumer Credit
Nicholas has litigation and advisory experience in the following key areas:
Mortgage and Home Finance
Nicholas has litigation and advisory experience in the following key areas:
Payment Services and Cryptocurrency
Nicholas has advisory experience in issues arising under the following key regulatory framework areas:
Fifth Money Laundering Directive and Money Laundering Regulations 2017 & 2019
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
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
Charlie Georgeson
Assistant Practice Manager - Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Employment & Discrimination, Court of Protection (Health & Welfare), Costs & Litigation Funding
0117 930 9000
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