"Methodical, rigorous, and proactive, in addition to working very well with solicitors."
LEGAL 500 2021
Malcolm predominately has a High Court practice, in chancery and commercial law.
Malcolm's property & estates experience includes:
Malcolm's commercial experience includes:
Chancery, Probate and Tax
‘Methodical, rigorous, and proactive, in addition to working very well with solicitors.’
Ranked: Tier 1
Chancery
Long-standing traditional chancery and commercial specialist. He is experienced in dealing with cases arising from options, mortgages, rights of way, wills and probate, and boundary disputes. His commercial practice includes partnership and contractual disputes, solicitor's negligence and the construction of contracts.
"He really understands the detail of the case. He gets into it really quickly and thoroughly and has a very clear steer on strategy. His written work is thorough, right on the point and comprehensive."
Commercial, Banking, Insolvency & Chancery
‘Very experienced across a broad range of traditional Chancery and commercial matters.’
Partnership
Leading Junior - Band 2
A well-known and respected senior junior in the partnership space who draws on a wealth of experience in the commercial and, in particular, property sectors to inform the matters he handles. He is especially noted for his handling of issues involving medical and farming partnerships.
Chancery
Leading Junior - Band 3
Long-standing traditional chancery and commercial specialist. He is experienced in dealing with cases arising from options, mortgages, rights of way, wills and probate, and boundary disputes.
Strengths: "He's a very senior, very experienced, very wily and able practitioner who has been around for a long time. He's a formidable opponent." "He's a very long-established chancery practitioner."
Recent work: Represented the defendants in a high-profile proprietary estoppel case concerning a valuable farm in West Wales, which settled before an appeal hearing.
Commercial, Banking, Insolvency and Chancery Law
Leading Junior
‘Recommended for traditional Chancery and commercial matters.’
Partnership
Leading Junior - Band 2
A well-known and respected senior junior in the partnership space who draws on a wealth of experience in the commercial and, in particular, property sectors to inform the matters he handles. He is especially noted for his handling of issues involving medical and farming partnerships.
Strengths: "Very much a partnership specialist - which gives him and edge - and my go-to to bounce things off."
Partnership
Leading Junior - Band 2
Frequently acts on partnership matters within the context of a broad chancery and commercial practice and has extensive High Court and Court of Appeal experience. His recent instructions inlude matters involving medical practices and a number of farming partnership disputes.
Partnership
Leading Junior - Band 2
A strong practitioner who engages in partnership work as part of a broader commercial and chancery practice. He has particular expertise in disputes involving medical partnerships.
Chancery
Maintains a thriving chancery practice, striking a balance between traditional and commercial work. He is routinely instructed on property and probate disputes, as well as partnership and professional negligence matters.
Expertise: "Highly experienced in this field. Very incisive, prompt and effective."
Recent work: He was involved in a High Court case, defending a third party in relation to a vexatious Beddoes application brought by the executors of an estate.
Partnership
Handles partnership work as part of a wider chancery and commercial practice, with a number of instructions pertaining to partnerships in the medical field.
Expertise: "He is very user-friendly and a very polished advocate."
Recent work: He acted for the claimants in Dashfield & Shepherd v Davidson, a case concerning directors' duties and the price payable for shares on a buyout.
Chancery
Property and trusts expert Malcolm Warner is praised for being "highly experienced in this field. He is also very incisive, prompt and effective."
Recent work: Lewis v Parsons, heard in the Cardiff County Court. This case concerned claims to farmland based on proprietary estoppel.
Partnership
Malcolm Warner has recently been instructed on cases dealing with disputes concerning both medical and legal partnerships. Sources say: "He is a very modern barrister", who is "a good operator in court."
Chancery
Clients "love" traditional chancery practitioner Malcolm Warner and his "steadfast" advocacy. Commentators admire his ability to "paint the big picture in court - he sets out his case clearly." In more adversarial situations, he is "a terrier who never lets go once he's got his teeth in."
Partnership
Malcolm Warner is "a good team player and an effective advocate." He has extensive commercial and chancery experience, and a fine reputation for handling tricky partnership disputes.
Chancery
Traditional chancery concerns are also the bread and butter of Malcolm Warner. He handles landlord and tenant issues, rights of way, inheritance and contractual disputes. According to sources, "he takes a terrier-like attitude to cases," such that "once he has gotten hold of a winning point he doesn't let go."
Partnership
The team includes Malcolm Warner, an old-school chancery expert, who is admired for his "practicality, approachability and sound assessment of partnership cases." Lately, he has been involved in dissolutions and other contentious matters for legal, medical and estate agent partnerships. "He does not shirk from awkward clients," according to peers, who consider him a respectable role model for younger practitioners.
Chancery
Malcolm Warner, a staunch favourite with clients who value his "highly tenacious approach."
Partnership
Malcolm Warner is seen by some as "the smartest man on the planet." Commentators note that his vast experience means that he has "the ability to see new angles in a case time after time."
Chancery
Malcolm Warner is rated for his "doggedness and perseverance - he will not give you an easy ride". He appeared in the Court of Appeal in Pattflier v Marley Estates, a case dealing with the construction of a lease of part of a subdivided country house.
Partnership
Acknowledged as a "fighter for his client", Malcolm Warner has built up a practice advising on medical partnerships and solicitor disputes. Sources express their utmost regard for his "hands-on, enthusiastic and user-friendly" manner, not to mention his "excellent judgement and clear advice."
Partnership
Malcolm Warner of Guildhall Chambers "instils confidence in his clients" and frequently comes up against silks as a leading junior.
For further information and enquiries please contact:
Property & Estates: Joe Stayte or Stephen Arnold
Commercial: Joe Stayte or Stephen Arnold