Peter's practice has three core areas: Banking and Financial Services, Property Litigation and Professional Negligence. Having started his career in the City as a fund manager at a leading investment bank, he has a particular interest in matters concerning asset management and investment products.
Peter's professional negligence practice reflects his two other core practice areas. In addition to his involvement in claims against financial practitioners, Peter acts not only for claimants but also for defendant professionals and their insurers in matters arising from conveyancing, secured lending and other property transactions. He has appeared in two of the recent line of cases involving claims against solicitors (including for breach of trust and breach of warranty of authority) in respect of losses resulting from identity fraud: Dreamvar (UK) Ltd v Mishcon de Reya (with Jeremy Cousins QC) and Ikbal v Sterling Law. He is frequently instructed to attend the mediation of professional negligence claims. Click here for further details of Peter's practice in this area.
A significant proportion of Peter's financial mis-selling practice concerns pension products. He has been instructed in numerous recent claims brought by members of occupational schemes or holders of personal pension plans who have been persuaded to invest (usually via a SIPP) in a variety of failed or fraudulent ventures. Many such claims involve issues as to the obligations and potential liability of the SIPP operator. Click here for further details of Peter's practice in this area.
In addition to commercial disputes in the banking and financial services sector, Peter has acted in various cases involving the commercial application of trust or other equitable principles. Furthermore, Peter's expertise in the field of investment overlaps with those practice areas where clients tend to make extensive use of investment products and services: in particular, charities and private clients. In the course of his career at the Bar, Peter has acquired experience of most areas of Chancery work. Click on the Practice Areas menu to the left for further details of Peter's practice in the relevant area. .
Peter is permitted to accept instructions under the Bar public access scheme and is always happy to consider doing so in suitable cases (in particular, where an institutional client is seeking specialist advice or a client is seeking preliminary advice with a view to instructing solicitors in due course).
Peter played chief US military prosecutor Col.Tad Parker in the Tricycle Theatre's 2011 production of Judgment at Nuremberg (the cast of which consisted entirely of lawyers). The initial run raised over £40,000 for the Tricycle’s Education, Social Inclusion and Artistic Programme and the Corinne Burton Memorial Trust. A revival at the Bridewell Theatre in March 2013 raised over £10,000 for Paul's Cancer Support Centre. Click here to read John Cooper QC's article in Counsel magazine about the original Tricycle production and here to read Nigel Pascoe QC's' review for Counsel of the Bridewell revival.
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