Call: 1996
Practice areas
Public Access : Yes
Mediator : Yes
Education
- MA Classics and Philosophy (University of Oxford)
- Common Professional Examination (Anglia Polytechnic University)
- Bar Vocational Course (Inns of Court School of Law)
Background
Pupillage in defamation, chancery and general common law.
Civil
Nicholas is an experienced civil practitioner providing advisory, drafting and advocacy services in a wide range of fields. Areas of particular expertise or interest include the following:
Personal injury: including road traffic accidents, highways, accidents at work, occupier’s liability, defective premises and clinical negligence.
Employment: including unfair dismissal, protected disclosures, discrimination, TUPE, contract claims, breach of confidence and restraint of trade and related claims.
Defamation: with experience also in related areas of privacy, confidentiality, passing off, trademarks and copyright.
Housing, landlord and tenant, and property: including covenants, easements, boundary disputes, co-ownership and trusts, mortgages, conveyancing, wills, probate and succession, leasehold enfranchisement, lease assignments, business tenancies, forfeiture, surrender, service charges and leasehold management, disrepair, possession claims, homelessness and property-related solicitors’ negligence.
Contract and commercial: including sale of goods, bailment and hire, interference with goods, construction, consumer credit, asset financing, company and insolvency law.
Immigration
Nicholas’s immigration practice includes all aspects of non-asylum work, with particular focus on ECHR Article 8 and family migration, EEA rights, Points-Based System, unlawful detention and judicial review. He is also instructed in related solicitors’ negligence matters.
Awards
- Lincoln’s Inn CPE Award (1994)
Memberships
- Administrative and Constitutional Law Bar Association
- Human Rights Lawyers Association
Languages
- French (fluent)
- German (good)
- Italian (working knowledge)
- Portuguese (working knowledge)
- Spanish (working knowledge)
Interests
Reading, art, music, history, languages, politics, cricket and football (spectator standard only).
Related cases
Defamation:
- Westcott v Westcott [2007] EWHC 2501 and on appeal [2008] EWCA Civ 818, [2009] 2 WLR 838: complaint to police enjoys absolute privilege
Employment:
- Okoro & Anor v Taylor Woodrow & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 1590, [2013] Eq LR 147, ICR 580: banning worker from future engagement was one-off act, from which time for bringing a discrimination claim ran
Immigration:
- AN and NN (s.83 – asylum grounds only) Albania [2007] UKAIT 00097: AIT reported
- Nkrumah (OFM – annulment of residence permit) Ghana [2011] UKUT 163 (IAC)
