Commercial

Christopher’s commercial practice encompasses representing individuals and corporations on commercial contract matters including debt recovery, sale of goods, factoring and related company law matters. Christopher has a special interest in the interaction between contract and the economic torts and in particular the liability of directors for the contractual liabilities of their companies. Additionally Christopher acts in employment related contractual disputes including those connected to performance related bonuses.

Selected Cases

  • Crystalens Limited v Dr John Charles White & others, 7th July 2006, QBD (Com), Gloster J, (extempore) – clarifying the extent of the liability of a company director for procuring a breach of contract by his company in light of an ambiguous passage in the then edition of Clerk & Lindsell on Torts.
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Education

  • LLB (Newcastle) 1992

Memberships

  • Family Law Bar Association
  • Chancery Bar Association
  • Resolution

Publications

  • Wrote two chapters in the 2 edition of Cohabitation Claims published by Resolution in
    April 2019.
  • Articles: “Equity’s darling” in the spotlight – 161 NLJ 653 May 2011
  • Author of the chapter on costs in Civil Courts Practice and Procedure Handbook, Tolley
    2000.
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