Mark is one of our founder directors. He specialises in property, property and construction litigation, work for small businesses, as well as wills and capital tax planning.
He is the co-author with Rosy Border of numerous books on legal matters for the popular market. With Rosy, he contributed titles in two series published by The Stationery Office. More recently, they have written books for the Pocket Lawyer series, published by Cavendish. The most recent titles are:
- Wills and estate planning
- Debt collection
- Living wills and enduring powers of attorney
- Setting up a limited company
- Letting your property
In May 2009, Mark teamed up with Professor Phillip Britton of King’s College London to write a paper for the Society of Construction Law on construction disputes in blocks of flats.
From 1993 to 1996, Mark was a member of the committee of The Gooda Walker Action Group, and the action group’s litigation sub-committee. The action group was successful in representing more than 3,000 investors in their claims against Lloyds underwriters.
Mark’s recent reported cases include:
- Burrells Wharf Freeholds Ltd v Galliard Homes Ltd [2000] CP Rep 4, (2000) 2 TCLR 54, [1999] 2 EGLR
- Billson v Tristem [2000] L&TR 220
- Scobie v. Fairview Land Ltd [2008] EWHC 147 (TCC)
Away from the office, Mark is a sponsor of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and the Aldeburgh Poetry Prom. In May 2009 he was a co-sponsor (“dream sharer”) of a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream in Middle Temple Hall, London. For the last 15 years he has taken part in the Aldeburgh Christmas Day swim and in 2008 he cycled from London to Paris to raise money for Medecines sans Frontieres.
He is also the co-owner of a Loch Long one design, Bruichladdich, which he races (unsuccessfully) on the River Alde. He keeps his camera to hand, and shares his photographs with family and friends on flickr.com. He was a district councillor on Suffolk Coastal District Council from 1987 to 1992.
