Harrison Edmonds

Overview

Harrison accepts instructions across the broad range of commercial and chancery work undertaken within Chambers’ Business and Property Group.

He has appeared in multi-track trials and in the Business and Property Courts as well as the Chancery Division of the High Court.

Harrison has a burgeoning paper practice providing advice on matters within the Business and Property Group’s areas of expertise. He is also instructed in respect of alternative dispute resolution including mediation.

Harrison is also a member of the Court of Protection Team and accepts instructions in relation to Property and Affairs.

His areas of practice include:

Private client, trusts and probate, including contentious probate, Inheritance Act claims, executor and beneficiary disputes, estate accounts, caveats, testamentary documents, lasting powers of attorney, and advice for protected parties.
Court of Protection, including deputyship applications and property and affairs matters.
Real property and TOLATA, including boundary disputes, trespass, nuisance, easements, covenants, Land Registry applications, and orders for sale.
Residential landlord and tenant, including possession claims, disrepair, and fitness for human habitation.
Commercial property, including lease renewals, forfeiture, lease construction, licensed premises, and Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 proceedings.
Commercial disputes, including breach of contract, referral agreements, professional negligence, civil fraud, and enforcement of adjudication decisions.
Company and partnership disputes, including directors’ duties, fiduciary duties, unfair prejudice petitions, and shareholder and partnership disputes.
Insolvency, including winding-up petitions, bankruptcy petitions, statutory demands, and injunctions to restrain winding-up petitions.
Tax and revenue disputes, including PAYE, employment income tax, VAT disputes, and Missing Trader Intra-Community fraud.
Consumer finance and financial mis-selling, including undisclosed commission claims.
Public, regulatory and statutory appeals, including civil penalty appeals under the Immigration Act 2014 and applications relating to utility warrants of entry.

Harrison is a participant in the Manchester Chancery Litigants-in-Person Scheme (M-CLIPS) providing support to unrepresented parties attending hearings in the Business and Property Courts.

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 is a member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and a member of the Chancery Bar Association.

Private Client, Trusts and Court of Protection

Trusts, 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.
Caveats against probate applications.
Ademption and satisfaction of legacies.
Applications under sections 122 and 123 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 to compel the production of testamentary documents.

Court of Protection and Mental Capacity

Deputyship applications.
Claims concerning lasting powers of attorney for property and affairs.
Providing legal opinions for protected parties.

Property and Housing

Real Property and TOLATA

Boundary disputes, trespass and nuisance.
Applications for orders for sale under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996.
Advice on easements, covenants and lease provisions.
Applications to HM Land Registry.

Residential Property

Possession claims under sections 8 of the Housing Act 1988.
Disrepair and fitness for human habitation claims.
Advice on impact of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025.

Commercial Property

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

Commercial, Company and Partnership Disputes

Commercial Disputes

Breach of contract.
Breach of referral agreements.
Professional negligence, including conveyancing negligence.
Civil fraud.
Enforcement of adjudication decisions.

Company and Partnership

Breach of fiduciary duties and directors’ duties.
Unfair prejudice petitions.
Shareholder and partnership disputes.

Insolvency

Winding-up petitions.
Bankruptcy petitions.
Applications to set aside statutory demands.
Injunctions to restrain the presentation of winding-up petitions.

Tax, Revenue and Financial Claims

Tax

Disputes concerning the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 and the Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003.
Missing Trader Intra-Community fraud.
Harrison was led by Joanna Vicary in the First-tier Tax Tribunal in WDL v HMRC [2024] UKFTT 514 (TC), an appeal against HMRC’s decision to deny a right to deduct input tax valued at more than £8,000,000.

Consumer Finance and Consumer Law

Undisclosed commissions and financial mis-selling.

Public, Regulatory and Statutory Appeals

Administrative Law

Statutory appeals against civil penalties imposed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under the Immigration Act 2014.

Utilities and Rights of Entry

Applications to set aside warrants of entry granted pursuant to the Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards) Act 1954.

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 Information

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.