Chancery

Michael Berkley

Called to Bar: 1989
Practice Areas:

Chancery
Real Property
Contentious Probate and Trusts
Landlord and Tenant
Commercial
Professional Negligence
TOLATA
Inheritance Tax 

Languages: French
Other Information:

Other Areas of Practice

Mortgage/banking, partnership, bankruptcy, purchase/sale of business, consumer law including consumer credit, boundary and other neighbour disputes, mediation, building and construction, elder law, estoppel, friendly societies, housing, complex private Ancillary Relief matters.

 

Legal 500 2009
Michael Berkley is "recommended as a ‘good all-rounder, very pragmatic‘ in commercial matters"

Legal 500 2010
MIchael Berkley is "a good commercial lawyer with common sense and the ability to apply the law to complex facts"

 

Accepts Instructions Directly from members of the Public and other Professionals.

 

Career

LL.B. (Hons) (Business Law) - London Guildhall University
Called to the Bar in 1989
Founder member of Rougemont Chambers 1997
Head of Chambers
Appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel) 2000
Civil only Recorder 2010

 

 

Professional Memberships

The Professional Negligence Bar Association
Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
Western Circuit

 

Personal

Born: 1966
Hobbies include: the Arts, cooking, computers and riding.