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Year of Call: 1975
QC: 1997
Education: BA Hons
Email: jonesqc@exchangechambers.co.uk
Areas of practice
Edward’s areas of practice are; Commercial, Professional
Negligence, Insolvency, Banking, Chancery, Companies, Real Property,
Commercial and Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Arbitration and
Intellectual Property.
Chambers' Guide to the Legal Profession lists Edward as one of
the "Leaders at the Bar" in the following fields: Commercial
(Litigation); Chancery; Insolvency/Corporate Recovery and Partnership.
Edward is also listed in the Legal 500.
Appointments
- Head of Commercial and Chancery Department, Exchange Chambers,
Liverpool and Manchester
- Recorder 2000 - present
- Assistant Recorder (1996-2000)
Reported cases and recent work
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Floyd v John Fairhurst & Co [2004] PNLR 41 (CA): professional
negligence – tax advice – capital gains tax - circumstances
in which appellate court would interfere with trial judge’s
findings of fact.
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Oystertec plc v Davidson [2004] EWHC 627 (Ch): disclosure –
time limits - penalties for breach.
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Williams v Williams [2004] 1 WLR 3185; [2004] 2 All ER 616;
[2004] PNLR 29 (CA): professional negligence – limitation
– deliberate concealment of relevant facts.
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Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee [2003] Ch 650 (CA); [2005] 1
AC 253 (HL): human rights – freedom of expression - interim
injunctions - application for interim relief to restrain publication
prior to trial – libel.
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English v Emery Reinbold & Strick Ltd [2002] 1 WLR 2409;
[2002] 3 All ER 385; (2002) UKHRR 95 (CA): civil procedure –
leave to appeal where trial judge’s reasons for decision
inadequate – European Convention on Human Rights –
Article 6.
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Union Music v Watson (2004) BCC 37; [2003] 1 BCLC 453 (CA):
Intellectual property – shareholders’ agreement
– media and entertainment – civil procedure.
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Douce v Staffordshire County Council, LTL 19/4/2002; Times,
May 2, 2002 (CA): summary judgment – local government
– residential care – Registered Homes Act 1984 –
statutory duties.
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Larvin v Phoenix Office Supplies [2002] 2 BCLC 556 (HC); [2003]
1 BCLC 76 (CA): unfair prejudice – section 459 relief
– minority shareholder rights – quasi-partnership
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Preston BC v McGrath, LTL 12/5/2000; Independent, May 19,
2000; Times, May 19, 2000 (CA): civil procedure – fraud
– local government - police – proprietorial interests
in documents – judicial review.
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June Grave v GA Bonus plc (1999) 2 Lloyd's Rep 716 (HC): insurance
coverage – avoidance of indemnity – fraud –
standard and burden of proof.
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Franklin v BPS Public Services Ltd (1999) ICR 347, (1999)
IRLR 212 (CA): employment – pensions – transfer
of undertakings – occupational pensions - redundancy -
no obligation transferred under an occupational pension scheme
to the new employer of a relevant undertaking.
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Joyce v Liverpool City Council [1995] 3 All ER 110 (CA): -
landlord and tenant – arbitration – jurisdiction
- district judge's powers to resolve a small claim referred
for arbitration under County Court Rules 1981 Ord. 19.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Northern Circuit
Northern Circuit Chancery Bar Association
Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
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