Johnny Ward

Practice:

Construction / IT
Contract / Commercial
Professional Negligence
Guarantees / Banking
Common Law

Profile:

Johnny divides his practice between construction and IT, and general commercial and common law work. He has experience of all types of construction dispute resolution and has represented developers, contractors and professionals in arbitrations, adjudications and mediations, and appears regularly in the TCC. Johnny also appears regularly in the County Courts on general commercial and common law matters, and maintains a busy advisory practice.

Recent work:

Construction trials (fast track and multi track)

Fast track trials on general commercial and common law matters

Applications in the High Court and County Court (e.g. security for costs, stays under Arbitration Act, summary judgment)

Adjudications and enforcement of awards in the TCC

IT-defects and provision of services disputes

Represented an employer in a building dispute at a 2 day trial of a preliminary issue as to limitation, where it was held that the limitation period under section 1(5) of the Defective Premises Act 1972 does not begin to run in circumstances where a dwelling is substantially completed to a habitable standard several years before practical completion.

Instructed on behalf of a developer to draft proceedings and appear at a mediation in a professional negligence claim, resulting in a settlement of over £250k

 

Career & Education

University

 

 

 



 

 

 

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)

 

Johnny Ward 

Year of Call:  2007

Specialises in:
Construction

Clerked By:
Paul Clarke

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