Year of call 2016
Dominic specialises in housing, land and property, personal injury, commercial and chancery.
Dominic is ranked as a Leading Junior in both the Legal 500 (Band 1) and Chambers and Partners (Band 2) in the area of Social Housing for 2024 and 2025.
Dominic has a busy multi-disciplinary practice and accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ practice areas.
Dominic has a busy practice and has acted in and appeared within the Magistrates’ Courts, County Courts and the Employment, Immigration and Residential Property Tribunals, Police Misconduct hearings and Police Pensions Appeals Board meetings. He also appears frequently in the Crown Court for civil matters and appeals.
Dominic read law at Cardiff University, attaining First Class Honours. He thereafter completed the Bar Professional Training Course at the University of Law in London with a Very Competent. Before commencing pupillage, Dominic was employed as an assistant editor at Practical Law – Arbitration.
Dominic regularly appears in Magistrates’ and Family Courts on behalf of Chief Constables in proceedings relating to closure orders, applications for detention and forfeiture of cash under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, civil applications pursuant to the Sexual Offences Act 2003, including Sexual Risk Orders, Stalking Harm Protection Orders, Sexual Harm Prevention Orders, domestic violence and protection orders and applications for disclosure of family law proceedings.
Dominic regularly acts for police forces appearing in the Crown Court on appeals made against civil orders and in appeals made following the removal or revocation of firearms licences.
Dominic also frequently acts for police forces within Police Misconduct and Police Medical Appeal Board hearings. Dominic has a particular interest in matters relating to the Police Pensions Regulations.
Dominic has significant experience acting on behalf of and advising the Secretary of State for Transport on a vast number of issues, including driving licence revocation appeals.
Dominic has frequently been instructed in in fitness to practice proceedings on behalf of the NMC, as well as acting as clerk to the Independent School Appeals Panel, hearing admission and exclusion appeals. Dominic previously volunteered with Communities Empowerment Network, advocating on behalf of a parent at a school-based governor’s hearing to retain her vulnerable child in mainstream education.
Dominic has a wide variety of experience in personal injury matters, representing both Claimants and Defendants in fast and multi-track claims. Dominic has experience of dealing with claims involving capacity issues, allegations of fundamental dishonesty and fatal accident claims.
Dominic frequently advises on liability and evidence and represents parties in many areas such as common law negligence, occupier’s liability, employer’s liability, highways act claims, defective products, holiday illnesses, industrial diseases and claims relating to the Animals Act 1971. In addition, he has substantive paper-based practice, advising on all matters including causation and on quantum.
Dominic has acted in and advised on a wide variety of commercial matters. Dominic has experience advising on and appearing in contractual disputes involving breaches of contract, professional negligence claims, business restrictive covenants, adverse possession, high value debt recovery, emergency injunctive relied, trespass and commercial lease disputes, sale of goods and supply of services and claims involving issues of reasonable care and skill and misrepresentation. Furthermore, Dominic has experience representing Claimants in holiday illness/package travel litigation.
Dominic frequently has acted and advised upon matters within Insolvency, bankruptcy and administration proceedings.
Dominic has a range of experience in property law, having acted in multi-track trials involving orders for sale, mortgage possession hearings, appearing on behalf of parties in possession claims involving housing disrepair, rent arrears, breaches of tenancy, claims for injunctive relief, relief from forfeiture, boundary disputes, trespassers, injunctions and Article 8 and proportionality defences.
Dominic has a particular specialism in matters of disrepair, including those related to commercial leases and construction.
In both and advisory and advocacy capacity, he is often instructed to deal with matters within TOLATA, promissory and proprietary estoppel, secret and constructive trusts, charging orders, recovery of monies through assets, issues of limitation and analysing beneficial interest in properties, including issues involving conflicts of laws.
Dominic has experience appearing in the Employment Tribunal in respect of claims involving unfair dismissal, constructive and wrongful dismissals, TUPE, qualifying and protected disclosures, redundancies and discrimination claims.
He possesses in-depth expertise at the intersection of employment law and commercial disputes, including matters involving pensions, restrictive covenants, restraint of trade, and issues connected to injunctive proceedings.
Dominic has also prepared and delivered seminars on health and safety claims under the Employment Rights Act 1996, focussing on claims relating to COVID-19.
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