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Daniel Wood

Head of Chambers

Called to the Bar 2000

Commercial

Civil

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Expertise in Civil and Commercial law including Commercial Debt and Fraud, Chancery Litigation;​

Expertise in breach of commercial contract claims. All commercial debt actions including multi-day cases resulting in seven-figure awards. All aspects of enforcement including orders for sale. Commercial injunctions, forfeiture and relief from forfeiture. Partnership disputes. Commercial fraud including actions in deceit and equitable actions such as knowing-assistance and knowing-receipt.

Landlord and Tenant;
Daniel has undertaken housing law for in excess of 20 years encompassing all aspects  of Landlord and Tenant including Social Housing, Commercial and Private.

Advises and acts for large corporate private landlords and property management companies. Leasehold right to manage.

​Special interest in possession proceedings involving issues of mental health and the Equality Act 2010.

Extensive experience in relation to matters of housing disrepair (and personal injury arising from disrepair). 

 

Property;

Contested Probate including wills, estate and property distribution;

 

Personal Injury including catastrophic injury and other cases of utmost severity, acquired brain injuries.

Clinical Negligence including failure to correctly diagnose and failure to obtain appropriate or informed consent, improper and sub-optimal care; Surgical and more general morphological issues; complex issues of medical causation.​​​

Inquest experience in a wide variety of inquests for over twenty years, including:

Road Traffic Accidents;

Accidents at work, including suffocation consequent upon the spillage of grain;

Deaths in care, including allegations of neglect;

Deaths under local authority supervision, including inappropriate use of an indoor wheelchair out of doors;

Clinical negligence including:

Unexplained death following surgical procedure and apparent triggering of a clotting cascade (open verdict);

Allegations of assault / battery whilst an inpatient in hospital (Home Office specialist history pathologist appointed to give evidence as to the timing of pre mortem soft tissue and bony injury to the chest);

Inappropriate / ‘off label’ provision of medication;

Severe dehydration;

Malnutrition;

Infant deaths.

Electoral Law.

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Memberships/Appointments

Chancery Bar Association Member
 

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