Anthony Higgins

Date of Call 1978

 

RANGE OF EXPERIENCE

Has a diverse practice covering a wide range of areas including:

Commercial and Contract Disputes including sale of goods, all aspects of agency, commercial lending, tracing, partnership and construction.

Professional Negligence including solicitors’, accountants’ and valuers’ negligence.

Property including nuisance and environmental damage, licences and easements, adverse possession, secured lending and conveyancing disputes.

Employment including construction of employment contracts, restraint of trade, breach of confidence, wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal and discrimination.

Intellectual Property including trade mark, copyright and design rights.

Is able to offer a professional service in all these areas, either in an advisory role or as an advocate.

QUALIFICATIONS

1996 LLM with Merit, School of Oriental and African Studies, London; international environmental law including human rights; featured in the Guardian education supplement.

1978 Called to the Bar.

1977 BA (Hons) in Law, Lincoln College, Oxford (alphas in contract, tort and land law).

1966-76 King Edward’s School, Birmingham.

 

CAREER PATH

Joined Chambers of Julian Baughan QC at 13 King’s Bench Walk in 2005.

From 2002 to 2005 Chambers of David Phillips QC, 199 Strand

From 2000 to 2002 Chambers of Michael Maguire QC, Goldsmith Building 

 

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

Varied professional practice has covered: 

• defending a claim for £15 million brought under a venture capital agreement;
• representing a group of US residents who invested £1 million in a fraudulent scheme organised by English accountants alleging constructive trust;
• defending proceedings in the Patents Court brought by a major PLC claiming ownership of a patent and misuse of confidential information by a former employee;
• defending a solicitors’ practice against allegations of sex discrimination;
• representing a government department against a claim that it was responsible for a major pollution incident;    
• whether casual stevedores were employed for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act (Stevedoring & Haulage Services Ltd v. Fuller and others 2001 IRLR 627 CA);
• whether a right of pre-emption is property within the meaning of the Insolvency Act (Dear v. Reeves [2001] 3 WLR 662 CA).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Part-time Immigration Judge

LANGUAGES

French