Johnny Ward

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Year of Call: 2007

Johnny’s practice embraces:

• Construction and IT
• Commercial dispute resolution
• Professional negligence
• Insured loss and subrogated recovery

Construction

Roughly half of Johnny's practice is in construction and IT, and he regularly deals with cases involving:

Defects, delay, payment disputes, extensions of time, concurrent delay, third party nuisance actions, parent company guarantees / performance bonds, limitation of claims, professional negligence etc, JCT and other standard forms; and computing / IT defect / delay claims.

Johnny also undertakes a significant amount of adjudication and arbitration work.

Commercial Dispute Resolution

Johnny has extensive experience of multitrack litigation and trials involving:

Contractual disputes, sale of goods / services, banking, guarantees and indemnities, factoring agreements, directors / company disputes, confidential information etc.

Much of Johnny’s work involves a significant degree of technical and scientific evidence.

Professional Negligence

Johnny is regularly instructed on behalf of defendants and claimants in relation to actions involving architects, surveyors, solicitors and others. In addition, a fair proportion of Johnny's construction practice has a professional negligence element, whether in the main action or in an associated part 20 claim.

Insured Loss and Subrogated Recovery

Examples of recent work include claims arising out of oil spills, petrol spills, floods, fires, a collision between a lorry and a railway bridge, damage to underground pipelines and cables, and building collapses / construction site accidents.

Career & Education

2003  Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon (Erasmus)

2004  BA Birmingham University (Joint Honours, Artificial Intelligence and French) - Class I

2006  Graduate Diploma in Law, Northumbria University - Distinction, ranked 1st in year

2007  Bar Vocational Course, Northumbria University - Outstanding, ranked 1st in year

Chancery House Prize for best overall student, Northumbria BVC

Dickinson Dees Prize for best overall student, Northumbria GDL

Speaker at the Lincoln's Inn Call Ceremony, July 2007 Lord Denning Scholarship (Lincoln's Inn)

Harwicke Award (Lincoln's Inn)