Liam joined the firm in January 2010. He read philosophy at the University of Sheffield, graduating with upper second class honours. Liam then went on to take his GDL at the University of Keele, and his LPC at the College of Law in Chester, passing both courses with overall commendations. Liam has a keen interest in the commercial side of law, and he achieved distinctions in Commercial Law and Employment Law.
Liam also has extensive experience working in customer service including a direct operation selling NUS Extra cards to students and working for an internet company. These jobs helped encourage Liam’s interest in the commercial side of law and enabled him to better understand the business needs of clients.
Today, Liam works in Bell Lax’s commercial litigation department, where he deals with a wide variety of cases, many of which are funded on a “no win, no fee” basis.
Liam’s recent cases include a case where his client recovered damages in excess of £60,000 following a fully contested County Court trial, in which the court accepted that shares in a company were held on trust for Liam’s client and that the Defendants had breached that trust.
He has also recently successfully defended a school which was being sued by a recruitment agency for breach of contract. The agency dropped its claim and agreed to pay the school its legal costs of the action a week before Liam was listed to appear at trial.
Liam has achieved favourable settlements for clients in professional negligence cases, contentious probate matters, and insurance disputes, and achieved the winding up of a company on a disputed winding up petition followed by the appointment of his clients’ preferred liquidator at a creditors’ meeting.
Liam is a believer in mediation as an effective way of resolving disputes, with recent experience of two successful mediations and also enjoys advocacy, appearing for clients in the Employment Tribunal and in chambers applications in both the County Court and the High Court in London.
His current cases include substantial professional negligence, shareholders’ disputes, breach of contract and contentious probate matters.
Outside work Liam is an avid sportsman who is a former university and county level tennis player who has spent many of his summers coaching tennis camps. He enjoys going to the gym and running to keep fit, reading and going to the cinema. Liam was a driving force in the Bell Lax 5 a side football team in their run to the quarter-finals of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce annual tournament!
