Overview
Joseph joined Maitland in September 2020, after successfully completing pupillage. He is now developing a broad commercial chancery practice, and regularly acts in commercial, insolvency and property disputes.
He is happy acting alone, with a leader, or as part of a larger counsel team. His recent led work in the High Court includes an appeal relating to business tenancy renewal (Macey v Pizza Express (Restaurants) Ltd [2021] EWHC 2847 (Ch)); defending an urgent, without notice injunctive application in insolvency proceedings; and, acting as part of the wider counsel team dealing with significant, ongoing litigation relating to fiduciary duties. Last year he appeared (led) before the Privy Council in a commercial appeal (Pickle Properties Ltd v Plant (British Virgin Islands) [2021] UKPC 6). He also frequently acts in the County Court.
Joseph regularly advises on issues across the full spectrum of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular emphasis on contractual, real property, insolvency, and civil fraud disputes. He also has experience of settling disputes by ADR, and is a member of the Attorney General’s ‘Junior’ Junior Scheme.
Joseph read law at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he took a double first. He then went straight onto the BPTC (as a Lord Denning Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn), followed immediately by pupillage, becoming a tenant at Maitland Chambers aged 23. Alongside his first year of practice, he returned as a Lecturer to Magdalen College, Oxford, to teach the Law of Torts.
Joseph welcomes instructions in all areas of Chambers’ practice. His clerks would be happy to discuss the terms on which he will act. Unless agreed otherwise in writing, he will be acting on The Standard Contractual Terms for the Supply of Legal Services By Barristers to Authorised Persons 2012 (as updated from time to time and referred to in the BSB Handbook).