James Davies

Call 2004
Email james.davies@3pb.co.uk
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James Davies has a civil practice specialising on commercial, chancery and property matters. He appears regularly in the County Court and the High Court on interlocutory applications as well as fast track and multi-track trials. Further details of his specialist areas of practice can be found under his Commercial Group and Property & Chancery Group profiles.

Before coming to the Bar James qualified as a Chartered Accountant. His professional practice included the audit of family owned companies (in particular construction businesses) and professional partnerships. James continues to remain up to date with industry developments and is able to apply his commercial experience to many of his cases.

James is a lecturer at Hertford College, University of Oxford, where he teaches tort to undergraduates and postgraduates. He is also an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University where he teaches landlord and tenant law. James also contributed to the Bar Council response to the DCA Consultation Paper “The Law on Damages”. The Bar Council team was led by one of our then Heads of Chambers Tim Lamb QC (now His Honour Judge Tim Lamb QC).

Publications

• Showing good cause – Leases and the costs of proceedings [2010] NLJ 13
• Betterment - For better or worse? [2010] NLJ 1635

Notable Cases

Everitt v Budhram [2010] Ch 170
the meaning of 'needs' of the bankrupt in Section 335A of the Insolvency Act along with whether the court was entitled to consider the circumstances of the making of the original bankruptcy order on an application for an order for sale

Segar v Scott-Rees & Co. [2006] CL 2759
solicitor's liens in the course of active litigation.