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Practice Profile
Chancery, Business and Consumer Law
This is Nick’s principal area of practice, in respect of which he is featured in the Legal 500.
'Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds is impressing in chancery and commercial work early in his call, and is already noted as ‘a great asset’ as a junior in the Court of Appeal.'
Legal 500, 2011.
‘Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds routinely handles complex commercial and chancery disputes which surpass his year of call.’
Legal 500, 2012.
CHANCERY: Nick regularly receives instructions in inheritance matters, including challenges to wills, and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. He often acts in high value estates. He deals with a wide range of property law, including disputes of title and boundaries. Nick has a particular interest in cases involving proprietary estoppel and constructive trusts. He regularly appears before both the courts and the Adjudicator to H.M. Land Registry.
COMMERCIAL: Nick regularly deals with contractual claims, and is particularly interested in building disputes. He appears in both commercial mediations and arbitrations, and high value construction cases. He deals with Landlord and Tenant disputes, especially lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. He often appears in insolvency cases, for both debtors and creditors.
PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE: Nick is regularly instructed in professional negligence matters for both Claimants and Defendants.
Nick is a member of the Chancery Bar Association.
Civil Actions Against Police
Nick is regularly instructed in civil actions against the police. He has been awarded a "Red Bag" by Leading Counsel for his work on a case involving an allegation of false imprisonment.
Mediation
• Rohit Kulkarni - and - Manor Credit (Davenham) Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 69; [2010] All ER (D) 120 (Feb): Interpretation of section 27 of the Hire Purchase Act 1964.
EDUCATION
2004: University of Cardiff Centre for Professional Legal Studies, Bar Vocational Course
AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS
• Consultant of local Citizen's Advice Bureau.
Solicitors’ Journal, Volume 154, Number 35, 21 September 2010.
• "Michael Foot’s Handling of the Militant Tendency: A Reinterpretation."
Contemporary British History Volume 19, No 1, Spring 2005.
• "Oratory, Rhetoric and Politics: Neil Kinnock’s Thousand Generations Speech of 1987"
Llafur: Journal of the Welsh People's History Society, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2006.
• "Attlee: A Life in Politics"
London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, published 31 July 2010 (ISBN-10: 1845117794 ISBN-13: 978-1845117795).
Reviewed in The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Spectator, The New Statesman, and Total Politics.
"Attlee: A Life in Politics" will be published in paperback in early 2012.
Nick is currently working on a biography of Aneurin Bevan.
INTERESTS
• Football (Member, Liverpool FC)
