Calum has a thriving commercial chancery practice spanning:
(1) Property (both landlord and tenant and real property).
(2) Commercial.
(3) Insolvency.
Recent examples of Calum’s work include:
- Acting for a freehold owner of a block of 139 high-end flats (the ground rent collected from which forms part of an investment fund operated by Schroders Plc) in a case concerning: (1) the consequences of the freeholder forfeiting the headlease, and (2) the consequences of a winding-up order being made against the intermediate landlord and the liquidator subsequently disclaiming the headlease.
- Acting for various companies that have availed themselves of the Non-Domestic Rates (“NDR”) mitigation scheme (“the Scheme”) operated by Verity Commercial Services Limited (“Verity”), from claims brought against them for non-payment of NDR by local councils. The Scheme and the issue of who is the “owner” of a hereditament have recently been considered by Mrs Justice O’Farrell in A&P68 Limited v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council [2026] EWHC 27 (Admin).
- Led by William McCormick KC on a private nuisance case concerning a block of luxury flats on Hampstead Heath.
- Representing the owner of the Ibis Budget Hotel at London Heathrow Airport concerning a multi-million-pound dispute relating to the use of the hotel’s car park.
Since 2023, Calum has been a member of the Attorney General’s Junior Junior Panel.
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Education
Qualifications
- BPTC – BPP (Very Competent)
- MA Conflict, Development & Security – University of Leeds (Distinction)
- LLB – University of Leeds (First Class)
Prizes and Scholarships
- Harmsworth Scholarship (Middle Temple)
- Blackstone Entrance Exhibition (Middle Temple)
