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Daniel Wood

Head of Chambers, Call: 2000

Commercial including Commercial Debt and Fraud, Chancery Litigation;​

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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.

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Mr Wood advises and acts for large corporate private landlords and property management companies.

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Mr Wood has a 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). 

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Construction and Property;

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Contested Probate including wills, estate and property distribution;

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

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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.​​​

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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

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Electoral Law.

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Expertise:

Civil 
Commercial & Employment
Property & Probate 

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"He was well-prepared, professional, and ensured that both the solicitor and client were kept informed throughout. His communication and approachability were much appreciated."

Memberships/Appointments

Chancery Bar Association Member

University of Liverpool:
BSc (Hons) Anatomy and Human Biology;
MSc Research into the relationship between aspects of human

morphology and behavioural traits. (Aspects of this research

were published in the Journal of Human Nature, Vol 9, Issue 1 (1998));
Awarded a Paton Brown Scholarship by the University of Liverpool.
University of Leeds LLB (Hons) Law Awarded the Ford & Warren Prize by the University of Leeds.
Inns of Court School of Law

(A Hardwicke Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn);
Bar Vocational Course.

Contact Dan's Clerks

Call 

0151 705 9345

Email 

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