• Acting for the claimants in an LCIA arbitration relation to a joint venture with substantial investments in businesses in Russia and the former Soviet union.
• Acting for the claimant in an ICC arbitration for the recovery of commission payments due under a consultancy agreement.
• Advising as to whether a draft arbitration agreement fell within the scope of the Arbitration Act 1996.

• London Executive Aviation v The Lily Partnership [2015] EWHC 1308 (Comm): Daniel acted (as sole counsel) for the successful claimant in a 4 day trial in the Mercantile Court for the recovery of sums due under an aircraft management agreement. The case raised issues of contractual construction and estoppel by representation.
• Bank of Scotland v United Breweries (Holdings) Limited [2012] EWHC 134 (Comm): Daniel acted for the respondent to a summary judgment application in a multi-million pound claim for the recovery of sums due under aircraft leases.
• Aercap Partners v Avia Asset Management [2010] EWHC 2431 (Comm); [2010] 2 CLC 578: 5 day trial in the Commercial Court (which Daniel attended as a pupil) concerning a dispute about sums due under and aricraft purchase and sale agreement. The case raised loss of a chance issues.
• ACG Acquisition v Olympic Airlines SA [2010] EWHC 923 (Comm); [2010] 2 CLC 578: summary judgment in the Commercial Court (which Daniel attended as a pupil) concerning a dispute about whether rent was due under an aircraft lease agreement notwithstanding that the relevant aircraft was not airworthy.
• Eagle Aircraft Leasing v Air France (settled 2010): a multi-million pound claim relating to contracts for the sale of several aircraft by Air France.
• Daniel has particular experience acting for and against airlines in relation to passenger claims for delayed flights under EC Regulation 261/2004 and in relation to the rights of disabled passengers under EC Regulation 1107/2006. In this regard, Daniel has appeared on behalf of British Airways, KLM, and Emirates.
• Assisting with advice on a claim by the owners of a helicopter against insurers after the helicopter was seized by customs officials in Iraq.
• Assisting with advice on a claim by the lessor of an aircraft against the lessee for damage to the engine of the aircraft due to alleged misuse of the aircraft by the lessee.

• London Executive Aviation v The Lily Partnership[2015] EWHC 1308 (Comm): Daniel acted (as sole counsel) for the successful claimant in a claim for sums due under an aircraft charter agreement culminating in a 4 day trial in the Mercantile Court. The case raised issues of contractual interpretation and estoppel by representation.

• Hadfield v Cooke [2015] EWHC 3480 (Ch): Daniel acted (as sole counsel) for the defendant in a dispute concerning the ownership of a share operating a business in the recycling industry. The case concerned an alleged oral nominee agreement.

• Hadfield v Cooke [2015] EWHC 3480 (Ch): Daniel acted (as sole counsel) for the defendant in a dispute in the Chancery Division concerning the beneficial ownership of the single issued share in a company operating a business in the recycling sector.
• Newmarket Holdings v Confiance (on-going): Daniel acts (with Elspeth Talbot Rice QC) for the claimant in a multi-million pound property joint venture dispute in the Chancery Division. The joint venture was conducted through a series of corporate entities, the ownership of which is now the subject of the dispute.

• Re Euromaster Ltd [2012] EWHC 2356 (Ch); [2013] Bus LR 466: Daniel acted for the administrators of a company who had been defectively appointed out of Court, successfully obtaining a declaration that the administrators had been validly appointed. This is one of the leading reported cases on the consequences of a defect in the appointment of an administrator.
• Re Care Matters Partnership Ltd [2011] EWHC 2543 (Ch); [2012] 2 BCLC 311: Daniel acted for the directors of a company who had defectively appointed an administrator. This is one of the leading cases on applications for the retrospective appointment of an administrator.

Daniel was instructed to assist with research in an appeal against the first instance decision in PNPF v Taylor.

Daniel’s growing experience in this field includes:

• Advising a scheme member who had been refused an ill-health retirement pension by the trustees of his occupational pension scheme on the merits of an appeal to the High Court from a decision of the Pensions Ombudsman.
• Advising a scheme member on the effect of contracting-out on his entitlement to a state pension.

He and Elspeth Talbot Rice QC produced an article for the Butterworths International Banking and Finance Law entitled “Whose liability is it anyway?”. This article explains how trustees of personal pension trusts may be exposed to liability in respect of investments made by beneficiary-appointed investment managers, who receive commissions which they do not disclose to the beneficiary.

• Investec v Glenalla(on-going): Daniel acts (with David Brownbill QC) for the liquidators of four BVI companies in a long running dispute (presently before the Guernsey Court of Appeal) concerning a claim by the liquidators for more than £180m against the former trustees of a Jersey trust. The proceedings raise complex issues relating to the rights of trust creditors to enforce their claims against trustees and trust assets, conflicts of laws, and unjust enrichment.
• Crociani v Crociani [2014] UKPC 40: Daniel appeared (with David Brownbill QC and Edward Cumming) for the appellants in the Privy Council in an appeal from the Jersey Court of Appeal concerning the construction of jurisdiction clauses in trusts and the effect of such clauses.
• Spread Trustee v Hutcheson [2011] UKPC 3; [2012] 2 AC 194: Daniel assisted the respondents in preparation for the hearing of an appeal to the Privy Council from the Guernsey Court of Appeal relating to the permissible scope of a trustee’s exculpation clause.

• Acting for a defendant trustee in a multi-million dollar claim for breach of trust including allegations of negligent investment, overcharging and the payment of unauthorised secret commissions.
• Advising on the construction of a will in relation to an adopted child.
• Advising a trustee on the procedure for removal and replacement of a co-trustee who lacked capacity and was also a beneficiary of the trust.
• Assisting with advice in a dispute over the right of a personal representative to compel a company to register him as a shareholder in has capacity as the personal representative of his mother’s estate.
• Acting for the claimant in a probate action seeking a pronouncement against a will on the ground that the testator lacked capacity to make that will.
• Advising in a claim for reasonable financial provision under the Inheritance Act 1975.
• Assisting with advice in a dispute involving a charity in which the children of the testator sought to challenge the validity of a will on grounds of want of knowledge and approval.
• Acting for the daughter of a lady with severe dementia in an application to the Court of Protection to cancel the registration of a Lasting Power of Attorney.
• Assisting with advice on the effect of sanctions on certain Egyptian nationals under EC Regulation 270/2011 on a Jersey Trust.