Stephen Boyd

Stephen’s main practice areas are property (particularly landlord and tenant), commercial litigation, and professional negligence pertaining to those areas.

A graduate in Linguistic and International Studies (comprising Russian, Swedish and Law), Stephen has commercial and management experience, having followed a business career, working for international trading companies in Hong Kong and South Africa, before commencing practice at the Bar.

Approachable, down to earth, and good at building rapport with clients, Stephen brings his business experience to legal problems, giving advice that is commercial, accessible and practical.

Stephen is a CEDR registered mediator and is on the panel of Talkmediation.

Year of Call: 1977

Professional memberships: Chancery Bar Association, Property Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association, RICS Dilapidations Forum, British Association for Sport and Law (appointed a director in 2006)

Recent and reported cases:

Levi v Levi LTL 12.3.08
(The detriment required for the establishment of a constructive trust did not need to be great where there was an express agreement, and the making of a loan at an agreed rate could be regarded as sufficient detriment)

Dudarec v Andrews [2006] 1 WLR 3002
(solicitors’ negligence: where evidence became available for the first time after the date of the notional trial (where the original proceedings had been struck out) in an action seeking to assess damages for the lost chance, unless the evidence related to some entirely new matter which could not have been known about at the date of the notional trial, the facts as they turned out to be should be taken into account by the judge dealing with the professional negligence action)

Money v Westholme Investments Ltd CA LTL 21.2.03
(construction of a contract against the background of the Leasehold Reform (Collective Enfranchisement etc) Regulations 1993)

Fuller v Happy Shopper Markets Ltd [2001] 1 WLR 1681
(tenant able to invoke the doctrine of equitable set-off in order to offset overpayments against unpaid rent even though no notice had preceded the accrual of the right of action for money had and received)

Re Oriental Gas Co Ltd [2000] 1 BCLC 209
(An application to strike out a s.459 petition may be made at any time and is not bound to fail merely because it is made at a late stage)

Publications:

Stephen’s interview with Michael Beloff QC was published in 2007 Vol.15 Issue 2 of the journal of the British Association for Sport and Law

Stephen’s interview with Sir Hugh Laddie was published in the May 2006 issue of the that journal

‘Timing is Everything’ – a consideration of concurrent civil and criminal proceedings: Vol.147, No 10, Solicitors Journal, 14.3.03, p.290

Chapter on image rights in Sport: Law and Practice, edited by Lewis and Taylor, 2003 with Jonathan Taylor (new edition due in 2008)

Email: stephen.boyd@selbornechambers.co.uk