Commercial chancery barrister specialising in banking and financial services, property and professional negligence
Zoom webinar (Radcliffe Chambers): Tuesday, 9th September 2025 (11:00). To register, please click here. Seven years after the Court of Appeal’s decision in Dreamvar, property fraud remains a significant risk. In the year to March 2024, HM Land Registry stopped 97 cases of registered title fraud involving properties worth £58 million. Yet in many instances, …
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Peter was kindly invited by The Legal Training Consultancy to speak on this subject at their Professional Negligence Update conference on 23rd October 2024. Please e-mail Peter if you would like to receive a PDF of his paper. Click here for his profile and contact details. Although the title of Peter's session was unlimited, he confined his …
Peter was kindly invited by the Deutsch-Britische Juristenvereinigung e.V. and the British-German Jurists’ Association to speak at their joint conference in Wiesbaden on 13th to 15th September 2024. With Dr Maximilian Kübler-Wachendorff (Notary Public and Speaker at the German Notary Institute) and Duncan Grehan of Duncan Grehan & Partners (Dublin), Peter co-presented a session entitled: “How reliable …
I would be very happy to provide on request a fuller version of my paper for yesterday's Banking Law Update conference organised by The Legal Training Consultancy. Topics covered: the revenue law concept of a high value dealer (high value cash payments), high value properties and identity fraud (HMLR's categorisation) and the claim against the …
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I have been very kindly been invited by The Legal Training Consultancy to speak at this online conference next Wednesday (29th March) on high value property transactions from a bank's point of view. Click here for further details of the conference and to book or here for my profile and contact details.
Peter (instructed by Philip Evans and Freddie Beard of Clyde & Co) appeared for the First Defendant in Owadally v Planology Ltd [2023] EWHC 339 (KB), a High Court appeal against a refusal to grant reverse summary judgment. The significance of Owadally lies in the cautionary guidance which it provides to any professional defendant considering a …
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Jeremy Cousins KC and Peter (instructed by Mills & Reeve) appeared in the Court of Appeal for Rees Page, the Seventh Defendant in Ashraf v Lester Dominic Solicitors [2023] EWCA Civ 4, CA (having previously both appeared for Mishcon de Reya in Dreamvar). UH exchanged contracts for the sale of his house to A. Unusually, the same …
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"Mortgages in 2021", a LexisNexis® Webinar, was broadcast on 31st August 2021 but is still available on demand (with much of the material covered remaining current). In the webinar, Peter discusses: the judgment of the Supreme Court in the professional negligence case of Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2022] AC 783, a decision …
This LexisNexis webinar will be broadcast on Thursday, 27th February 2020 at 12.30 p.m. (GMT) and available on demand for 24 months thereafter. Jeremy Cousins Q.C. of Radcliffe Chambers will begin with a brief reminder of what was decided by Dreamvar. Peter will review the consequential revisions to the Code for Completion by Post and …
How should judges assess the return which would have been produced by a hypothetical alternative investment? This was one of the issues in the Court of Appeal case of Watson v Kea Investments, which concluded in October 2019. The question can arise in various contexts. Where bad advice has caused a client to invest in X …
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Peter Dodge 