Paul Brook: profile

Following his commercial/chancery training in London Chambers, Paul began his practice as a tenant at those same chambers. Having returned to his native Yorkshire, he now has over 20 years experience from a career built exclusively on commercial/chancery cases.

For details of Paul's career and experience, please click on the headings below:

Education:

Fulneck School, University of Leeds (LLB, 1985);
Inns of Court School of Law (1986)

Practice:

Commercial Chancery comprising:
• Companies: constitution; shareholder agreements, disputes and remedies; conduct of meetings; directors' duties; derivative claims; unfair prejudice petitions; winding up on the just and equitable ground; breaches of trust and fiduciary duty.
• Insolvency: claims against directors and shadow directors; disqualification of directors; misfeasance; transactions at undervalue; preferences; recovery or preservation of corporate property; retention of title; bankruptcy.
• Real property: easements, trusts of land; registered and unregistered conveyancing; contracts for sale of land; business tenancies.
• Partnerships: dissolution; accounts and inquiries as between partners; preservation of partnership assets pending winding up; liability of partners to each other and to third parties.
• Professional negligence of lawyers, property and insurance professionals and financial advisers.
• Agriculture: land disputes, rights of way and water rights, grazing rights, agricultural tenancies, farming contracts and partnerships.
• Banking: bankers' duties; guarantees and securities; principal and surety; recovery of secured shortfall; undue influence, misrepresentation and forgery.
• Contractual and other commercial disputes affecting businesses in the United Kingdom, European Union and internationally.
• Advising upon and drafting commercial documents, including corporate articles of association, shareholders' agreements, licences and other contracts.

Accreditations:

• Accredited Mediator
• Bar Council Public Access Accredited.

Memberships:

• Northern Chancery Bar Association
• Property Bar Association
• Professional Negligence Bar Association
• Professional member of the Country Land & Business Association
• Civil Mediation Council
• Society for Computers & Law
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Institute of Directors.

Personal Interests:

• European history and travel
• US political history
• Countryside and the rural environment
• Cricket
• Motorcycling and motor sport.