Practice Profile: Michael Collard (Head of Chambers)
Year of call
1986
Education
LL.B. (Hons) Bristol
Appointments
TECBAR Adjudicator
Accredited Mediator
Accredited Mediator
Practice
Principal areas of practice:
Landlord and Tenant: Michael has worked for over 20 years for landlords and tenants in commercial and residential property cases, with clients ranging from one of the country’s largest housebuilders to local authorities and individuals. The cases involve dispositions of freehold and leasehold interests, possession, rent arrears, disrepair, dilapidations and service charges.
Boundary Disputes: Considerable experience of acting in insurance backed and privately funded cases has enabled Michael to develop ways of enabling warring neighbours to achieve satisfactory outcomes, through litigation, mediation, or preferably early informal resolution.
Restrictive Covenants: Michael has successfully appeared in Land Tribunal applications to resist the modification and discharge of restrictive covenants and advised clients regarding the enforcement and variation of such covenants.
General property work: Acting for legal expenses insurance backed and privately funded cases for many years has given Michael vast experience of virtually all types of property work, ranging from conveyancing problems to disputes over bequests to charities and local authorities, litigation over interests in land, public and private rights of way, other easements, party wall disputes, and homelessness.
Other areas of practice:
Mediation: As a trained Mediator, Michael has a substantial advantage in preparing and presenting cases for mediation. He has received formal training in advanced mediation advocacy and fully appreciates the different skills required for mediation.
Employment: Michael acts for employers and employees, with substantial experience of successful cases in London tribunals and elsewhere involving race, sex and disability discrimination, unfair dismissal, TUPE regulations, and most recently, issues of whether the claimant was an employee, a worker or neither.
Construction: Having benefited from a pupillage at Keating Chambers, Michael has gained substantial experience of conducting TCC and other building litigation, covering a wide range of disputes from major construction developments to domestic dwellings and industrial workplaces. As a TECBAR Adjudicator since 1998, Michael is well placed to advise on the performance and enforcement of adjudications.
Contract: Michael can often provide instant telephone or email advices on contractual issues enabling a case to be resolved promptly or if necessary pursued successfully to trial or other resolution.
Professional Liability: Experience of construction and property cases provides a solid basis for handling professional negligence claims against surveyors, valuers, architects, and solicitors, in both local and international transactions.
Adminstrative: Michael has acted for public authorities, affected and interested parties in judicial review of the acts and omissions of public bodies, in homelessness, planning and other areas.
Landlord and Tenant: Michael has worked for over 20 years for landlords and tenants in commercial and residential property cases, with clients ranging from one of the country’s largest housebuilders to local authorities and individuals. The cases involve dispositions of freehold and leasehold interests, possession, rent arrears, disrepair, dilapidations and service charges.
Boundary Disputes: Considerable experience of acting in insurance backed and privately funded cases has enabled Michael to develop ways of enabling warring neighbours to achieve satisfactory outcomes, through litigation, mediation, or preferably early informal resolution.
Restrictive Covenants: Michael has successfully appeared in Land Tribunal applications to resist the modification and discharge of restrictive covenants and advised clients regarding the enforcement and variation of such covenants.
General property work: Acting for legal expenses insurance backed and privately funded cases for many years has given Michael vast experience of virtually all types of property work, ranging from conveyancing problems to disputes over bequests to charities and local authorities, litigation over interests in land, public and private rights of way, other easements, party wall disputes, and homelessness.
Other areas of practice:
Mediation: As a trained Mediator, Michael has a substantial advantage in preparing and presenting cases for mediation. He has received formal training in advanced mediation advocacy and fully appreciates the different skills required for mediation.
Employment: Michael acts for employers and employees, with substantial experience of successful cases in London tribunals and elsewhere involving race, sex and disability discrimination, unfair dismissal, TUPE regulations, and most recently, issues of whether the claimant was an employee, a worker or neither.
Construction: Having benefited from a pupillage at Keating Chambers, Michael has gained substantial experience of conducting TCC and other building litigation, covering a wide range of disputes from major construction developments to domestic dwellings and industrial workplaces. As a TECBAR Adjudicator since 1998, Michael is well placed to advise on the performance and enforcement of adjudications.
Contract: Michael can often provide instant telephone or email advices on contractual issues enabling a case to be resolved promptly or if necessary pursued successfully to trial or other resolution.
Professional Liability: Experience of construction and property cases provides a solid basis for handling professional negligence claims against surveyors, valuers, architects, and solicitors, in both local and international transactions.
Adminstrative: Michael has acted for public authorities, affected and interested parties in judicial review of the acts and omissions of public bodies, in homelessness, planning and other areas.
Notable Cases
Western Challenge Housing Association v. Percy Thomas Partnership (1995) CILL 1018 QBD,( one of the Legal Times/Masons “Best Ten Construction Cases, 1996”)
West Kent Housing Association v. Davies (1999) 31 HLR 415 [1998] EGCS 103 CA
R -v- London Borough of Greenwich HBRB ex parte Dhadly LTL 21/10/99, (2000) 32 H.L.R. 829
Berthon Boat Co.Ltd -v- Hood Sailmakers Ltd[2000] E.G.L.R 39, [2000] 08 EG 175
An application under section 84 of the Law of Property Act 1925 by Alan Howard Fisher LP/31/2006 http://www.landstribunal.gov.uk/judgmentfiles/j527/LP-31-2006.pdf
and an appeal against a prohibition notice under para 7(1) of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 2004 Ref. No. LON/
AJ/HPO/2009/0008 http://www.rpts.gov.uk/Files/2010/April/000048FQ.htm
Johnson v Luxcool Ltd & Ors [2008] EWHC 1591, QB,[2008] All ER (D) 185
West Kent Housing Association v. Davies (1999) 31 HLR 415 [1998] EGCS 103 CA
R -v- London Borough of Greenwich HBRB ex parte Dhadly LTL 21/10/99, (2000) 32 H.L.R. 829
Berthon Boat Co.Ltd -v- Hood Sailmakers Ltd[2000] E.G.L.R 39, [2000] 08 EG 175
An application under section 84 of the Law of Property Act 1925 by Alan Howard Fisher LP/31/2006 http://www.landstribunal.gov.uk/judgmentfiles/j527/LP-31-2006.pdf
and an appeal against a prohibition notice under para 7(1) of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 2004 Ref. No. LON/
AJ/HPO/2009/0008 http://www.rpts.gov.uk/Files/2010/April/000048FQ.htm
Johnson v Luxcool Ltd & Ors [2008] EWHC 1591, QB,[2008] All ER (D) 185
Memberships and Affiliations
Member of Society of Construction Law, Civil Mediation Council, Professional Negligence Bar Association and TECBAR
Member of the Finance and Hall Committees of Middle Temple.
Middle Temple Sponsor.
Chambers is a Corporate Member of the SCMA
Member of the Finance and Hall Committees of Middle Temple.
Middle Temple Sponsor.
Chambers is a Corporate Member of the SCMA
Additional Information
Addressed seminars on arbitration and expert witnesses for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Professional Solutions and Services Ltd.
Received training in Advanced Mediation Advocacy
Undertakes Direct Public Access advisory, litigation and ADR work in the following areas: Commercial Property, Construction, Landlord & Tenant, Licensing, Local Government, and Professional Negligence
What clients say:
"I have instructed Michael on many varied civil matters over the years. Despite a busy schedule, Michael consistently turns instructions around quickly. In conference he adopts a practical and balanced approach, putting clients at ease even during the most stressful litigation periods. Michael is supported by very friendly and efficient clerks and I have no hesitation in recommending both Michael and 5 Pump Court.
Juliet Petchey, Head of Litigation, Howell-Jones LLP"
Received training in Advanced Mediation Advocacy
Undertakes Direct Public Access advisory, litigation and ADR work in the following areas: Commercial Property, Construction, Landlord & Tenant, Licensing, Local Government, and Professional Negligence
What clients say:
"I have instructed Michael on many varied civil matters over the years. Despite a busy schedule, Michael consistently turns instructions around quickly. In conference he adopts a practical and balanced approach, putting clients at ease even during the most stressful litigation periods. Michael is supported by very friendly and efficient clerks and I have no hesitation in recommending both Michael and 5 Pump Court.
Juliet Petchey, Head of Litigation, Howell-Jones LLP"
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