Dominic has experience of issues including jurisdiction and applicable law, forum non conveniens, pleading and proving foreign law, urgent interim applications, professional negligence, directors disputes, breach of contract, and debt recovery.
Dominic has experience of costs and case management hearings, pre-trial reviews and successful trial advocacy.
In March 2025, he successfully represented a provider of equipment leasing and asset finance at trial, so that the defence was struck out, judgment was entered for over £30,000, the claimant beat its own offer to settle, and the defendant was ordered to pay the claimant’s costs of about £20,000.
In January 2025, he successfully represented a company at trial that manufactured bespoke parts for another company that specialises in satellite platforms, subsystems, in-orbit relay data, and autonomous satellite / constellation management solutions.
In October 2024, Dominic was instructed for a pre-trial review, and subsequently advised, drafted an application, and successfully applied to strike out as an abuse of process a substantial counterclaim based on a foreign judgment, about two weeks before a two-day, multi-track trial.
In September 2024, he made submissions at a directions hearing, so that the defence and counterclaim was struck out, summary judgment was entered, and the first defendant’s solicitor was ordered to pay the claimant’s costs.
Jurisdiction & choice of law
- H v O – advised, drafted an application, and successfully applied to strike out as an abuse of process a substantial counterclaim based on a foreign judgment, about two weeks before a two-day, multi-track trial (October 2024).
Urgent interim applications
- Advised 15 taxi drivers on procedure, pleading and proving fraud, and prospects of securing interim injunctions to prevent a third party taking possession of their taxis (October 2024).
Directors disputes
- Drafted particulars of claim for breach of personal guarantees in respect of loan agreements for about £35,000, and about £5,000 contractual interest (January 2025).
- Drafted particulars of claim for breach of an agreement for the sale of company shares, and advised on whether that agreement was sufficiently certain to be enforceable, how the terms would likely be construed, and variation of the agreement (November 2024).
Professional negligence
- B & Anor v L – drafted an urgent defence over the weekend, and an application for strike out and / or summary judgment, asserting that the claim was time-barred, and / or discloses no reasonable grounds, where the documents amounted to some 1,400 pages (January 2025).
- T v S – particulars of claim for breach of contract and / or damages for negligence including exemplary damages arising out of the service carried out by the defendant firm of solicitors in drafting and agreeing a defective commercial lease (December 2022).
- C v O & Anor – claim form and particulars of claim for breach of contract and / or damages for negligence arising out of the service carried out by the first defendant (January 2022).
- Advised landlord in conference following an agent’s alleged failure to manage a property, resulting in loss claimed of about £40,000 (October 2021).
Breach of contract
- A v B – successfully made submissions in a case management conference, so that the trial was listed for three days (January 2025).
- B v M – drafted particulars of claim for about £50,000, following a wedding that was cancelled by an event catering and management company (December 2024).
- B v W – successfully made submissions, so that permission was granted to substitute a witness about a month before the two-day, multi-track trial (December 2024).
- Advised on the merits of a claim for breach of contract and / or breach of a duty that had been assumed, after the cam belt of a commercial vehicle failed and the vehicle was written off because it was allegedly not checked in accordance with a service agreement, where the issues included limitation and exclusion clauses, and contributory negligence (November 2024).
- Drafted particulars of claim for breach of contract and misrepresentation, following humid storage conditions in a warehouse causing over £25,000 of damage to stock, loss of sales and necessitating removal of stock to another storage facility (July 2024).
- Advice on limitation, and prospects of success, following a well-known, high street bank, losing a safe deposit box with up to £150,000 of jewellery (July 2024).
Debt recovery
- M v A – successfully made submissions, so that judgment for over £21,000, about over £4,000 interest and £11,000 costs were awarded (April 2025).
- B v F – successfully made submissions, so that the defence was struck out, judgment was entered for over £30,000, the claimant beat its own offer to settle, and the defendant was ordered to pay the claimant’s costs of about £20,000 (March 2025).
- A v O – successfully made submissions, so that judgment for about £20,000 was granted, including contractual interest, and the defendant was ordered to pay the costs of about £10,000 (January 2025).
- B v W – successfully made submissions, so that although the claim was dismissed after a two-day, multi-track trial, no order was made as to costs, despite the defendant having made three relevant Calderbank offers (January 2025).
- P v F – successfully made submissions, so that summary judgment for about £20,000 including contractual interest were granted, and the defendant was ordered to pay the claimant’s contractual costs of about £10,000 (December 2024).
- Drafted particulars of claim on behalf of a restaurant design, build and fit-out company for about £40,000, interest pursuant to the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998, and contractual costs (November 2024).
- C v A – successfully made submissions, so that permission was granted to rely on an amended defence, and the claimant was ordered to pay the associated costs (November 2024).
- L & Anor v L & Anor – successfully made submissions at a directions hearing, so that the defence and counterclaim for about £40,000 was struck out, summary judgment was entered on the claim for about £15,000, and the first defendant’s solicitor was ordered to pay the claimant’s costs of about £5,000 (September 2024).
- G v S – successfully cross-examined, and made submissions, so that judgment for over £7,500 was entered, and costs of about £4,000 were awarded, following repudiatory breach of an unregulated lease agreement in respect of telecommunications equipment (September 2024).
- P v F – successfully applied for an order for sale (July 2024).
- E v P – successfully applied for an order for sale (July 2024).
- P v F – advised in conference in respect of capacity, litigation friends, the nature of understanding required to uphold a contract, and setting aside judgment following failure to attend a trial (July 2024).
- S v H – successfully applied to set aside judgment, strike out the claim, and costs to be awarded to the defendant (June 2024).
- N v W – successfully applied to set aside judgment, the claim to be dismissed, and the claimant to pay the defendant’s costs of about £4,500 (May 2024).
- C v A – successfully applied for permission to rely on a defence with a valid statement of truth, part of the claim to be struck out, an unless order in respect of the other part of the claim, and over £1,500 costs (May 2024).
- G v R – successfully cross-examined and made submissions, so that judgment for over £8,000, about £1,000 interest, contractual costs of £4,500 and permission to appeal on “the VAT point” were awarded (March 2024).
- C v B – successfully resisted the claimant’s application for reallocation to the fast track (March 2024).
- B v B – successfully resisted the claimant’s application for relief from sanctions, so that the claim remained struck out (February 2024).
- H v S – successfully resisted the claimant’s application for reallocation to the fast track (February 2024).
- G v B – successfully resisted the claimant’s application for relief from sanctions, so that the claim remained struck out, and the defendant was awarded the costs of the application as claimed (January 2024).