Christopher Edwards

Call 2008
Email christopher.edwards@3pb.co.uk
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Christopher is a commercial and chancery practitioner, regularly appearing in the High Court and county courts. He also has a busy paper-based practice, and has extensive experience of both advising in conference and on paper, and of drafting pleadings.

Christopher undertakes work in the following areas:

• Banking Law: guarantees and indemnities; mis-selling of financial products; professional negligence
• Commercial Litigation: debt recovery, sale of goods, supply of services, general contractual disputes, construction of contracts, agency, guarantees and indemnities, consumer credit agreements.
• Corporate Insolvency & Company law: winding-up petitions, advising on application to restore company to the register, unfair prejudice petitions.
• Landlord and Tenant: commercial and residential landlord and tenant disputes, possession hearings, rent arrears and service charges.
• Licensing: alcohol licensing, public transport licensing, taxi licensing
• Personal Insolvency: bankruptcy petitions, applications to set aside statutory demands.
• Probate and Inheritance: interpretation of wills, challenging wills, administration of estates, claims under Inheritance Act 1974, claims against personal representatives.
• Property: boundary disputes, nuisance, trespass, easements, mortgages.
• Trusts: applications for sale, determination of beneficial interests.

Christopher is willing to act on a conditional fee basis in appropriate cases.

Prior to being called to the Bar, Christopher worked and volunteered for NGO’s, in both the United Kingdom and Cambodia, focussing on issues relating to governance and the rule of law.

Notable Cases

Davis v Ukay Fuels Limited [2011]
Claim for notice pay under subcontracting agreement. Both parties producing competing contracts and documentation. The case required a thorough understanding of the papers, and forensic cross-examination.

Edward Kingston Limited v Beechey v Glass [2011]
Damages arising from disrepair. Dispute between leaseholder and freeholder as to responsibility for balcony. Interpretation of lease.

Freehold Nominees Ltd v Hasan [2011]
Service charges. Whether lack of payments from tenants entitled owner to provide reduced service. Whether contractual provisions overrode small claims costs provisions.

Jackson v Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk [2011]
Appeal to Magistrates’ Court against Council’s decision to revoke taxi and private hire driver’s licenses and private hire vehicle license.

McKenna v Quality Food Ingredients Company Limited [2012]
Claim by personal representative for unpaid loan. Interpretation of contract. Alleged oral variations of contract. Valuation of chattels in related property sale.

Morgan v Basford [2012]
Nuisance, rule in Rylands v Fletcher. Extent of damages caused by publican discharging septic tanks on nearby agricultural land.

Opus Energy Ltd v Sivasuthan [2012]
Claim under deemed contract provision of Electricity Act 1989. Erroneous Registration Provisions of Industry Master Registration Agreement. Contract (Rights of Third Parties Act) 1999

S v Oxfordshire County Council [2010]
Appeal against decision to deny bus driver license to transport children. Previous conviction for sexual assault. Council discretion, given age of conviction.