Michael Norman is a civil practitioner. Specialist areas of his practice are as follows:

• Property matters directed principally at conveyancing issues, easements, adverse possession, proprietary estoppel and the determination of interests under constructive trusts.
• Commercial contractual disputes, including fraud.
• Professional negligence.
• Employment work.
• Personal injury work.

Michael Norman practises principally on the Western Circuit and appears regularly in the High Court in London.

Reported cases include:

Miller v The Law Society [2002] 4 All E.R. 312 - Role of private law duty of care in Law Society Investigation.

Ward Evans Financial Services Ltd. v Fox and Phillips (2002) IRLR 120 (CA). Whether employees owning a dormant company intending it to operate when they left their employment were in breach of a trust and confidence agreement.

Churchill Insurance v Charlton [2001] 3 W.L.R. 1435 (CA) meaning of word 'accident' in a motorcar insurance policy.

Flowermix Ltd v Site Development (Ferndown) Ltd Lawtel Ref: AC7200988 - proprietary estoppel operating to convey land not formally conveyed by conveyance.

Worlwide Corporation Ltd v Marconi - Lawtel Ref: AC0791188 - claim to enforce agency agreement in relation to the predicted reconstruction of Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War.

Minton v Minton [1979] AC 593 - for many years leading case on clean break in matrimonial ancillary relief.