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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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.