Harrison Edmonds

Call: 2021

Tax and Duties, Business and Property

Overview

Harrison accepts instructions across the broad range of commercial and chancery work undertaken within Chambers. He has been instructed in multi-track trials in the County Court, as well as in the Business and Property Courts of the High Court.

Harrison has a burgeoning paper practice providing advice and finding practical solutions both prior to the commencement of litigation and once proceedings are underway. In addition, he is also instructed in respect of alternative dispute resolution including mediation.

Before being called to the Bar and returning to Manchester, Harrison worked in London as a paralegal at Signature Litigation LLP, a specialist law firm handling major and complex commercial arbitration and litigation in the High Court. Harrison also takes on pro-bono work and has provided representation through Advocate’s Manchester Chancery Litigants-in-Person Support Scheme (“M-CLIPS”).

Trust, Probate, Wills and Estates

• Challenges to the validity of wills including lack of capacity, undue influence, want of knowledge and approval and fraudulent calumny.
• Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
• Claims for and against executors, administrators and beneficiaries.
• Applications for inventories and accounts of estates.
• Claims concerning lasting powers of attorney for property and affairs.
• Caveats against probate applications.
• Providing legal opinions for protected parties.

Property

Real Property
• Cases involving boundary disputes, trespass and nuisance.
• Applications for orders for sale made under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996.
• Advice on easements, covenants and provisions in leases.
• Applications to HM Land Registry.

Residential Property
• Applications for possession brought under both section 8 and section 21 of the Housing Act 1988.
• Disrepair and fitness for human habitation.

Commercial Property
• Proceedings brought under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
• Advice on lease renewals, forfeiture and effect of lease provisions.
• Cases involving licensed premises, including public houses.

Commercial

Commercial Disputes
• Breach of contract.
• Professional Negligence, including conveyancing.
• Civil Fraud.

Insolvency

Insolvency
• Winding-up petitions.
• Preparing and setting aside statutory demands.
• Applications for permission under s.216(c) of the Insolvency Act 1986 to act in relation to a company with a prohibited name.

Tax

Utilities & Consumer Law

Utilities
• Setting aside warrants of entry granted pursuant to the Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Board) Act 1954.

Consumer finance and Consumer Law
• Undisclosed commissions and financial mis-selling.

Appointments

Attorney General’s Junior Junior Scheme

Education

BA (Hons) in History, University College, Oxford

MSt in Medieval History, University College, Oxford

GDL, City, University of London

BPTC, BPP University

Awards

Prince of Wales Scholarship (Gray’s Inn)

David Karmel Award (Gray’s Inn)

Advocacy Award (BPP University)

Excellence Award (BPP University)

Postgraduate Scholarship (City Law School)

Scholarship (University College, University of Oxford)

Exhibition (University College, University of Oxford)

Prescribed Infrormation

Harrison is a practising barrister, regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). The information held by the BSB about him can be found here.

Harrison’s clerks will provide no obligation quotations for all legal services that he provides. It is most common for Harrison to undertake Court and Tribunal work for a brief fee plus refresher days, although fixed fees are available. For paperwork, Harrison most commonly charges at an hourly rate, although fixed fees are available. Harrison will typically return paperwork within 10-14 days, however professional commitments, complexity and volume of documentation can affect these approximate timescales.