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Property
Edward Risso-Gill’s civil practice covers a range of property related work including conveyancing disputes, commercial leases, disrepair, residential possession proceedings, boundary disputes, adverse possession, mortgages, insolvency related proceedings and professional negligence. He has particular experience in claims for damages following the breach of conveyancing contracts and collapsed conveyancing chains.
He is currently instructed in a group claim for professional negligence and breach of trust, arising from a substantial international property investment scheme.
Regulatory and Disciplinary Law
Edward has dealt with a variety of regulatory and disciplinary cases including regulatory proceedings under FSMA and sporting and professional disciplinary actions. He also acts in private law claims brought following regulatory infringement.
Administrative and Public Law
Edward’s experience includes cases involving the regulation and internal governance of professional associations, licensing, prisoners and housing. He appeared for the Government before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in a judicial review of a decision of the Mauritian Health Ministry. He also appeared for widowers claiming discrimination in the award of bereavement benefit in the High Court and subsequently on appeal up to and including in the House of Lords (R (Hooper & Others) v Secretary of State for Work and Pension [2005] UKHL 29, [2005] 1 WLR 1681).
He is currently instructed by a commonwealth government in a dispute involving public and planning law and the right to compensation for expropriation of property under the constitution as a result of the designation of land as a World Heritage Site.
Personal Injury
Personal injury work includes accidents at work, slipping and tripping and road traffic accidents.
Criminal Law
Edward deals with proceeds of crime and money laundering litigation in both the civil and criminal courts and is well placed to advise on related issues arising in his other areas of civil practice. His practice in the criminal courts has given him substantial advocacy experience. It has involved a high proportion of complex and serious financial crime including Very High Cost Cases. He has, for example, defended in a major duty evasion case in which difficult points of Community customs law were deployed, a substantial multi-handed insurance fraud and also an unusual set of allegations, with a long history of civil litigation, including in the Court of Appeal Civil Division, arising from the execution of bills of exchange.
Privy Council
Edward has appeared before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in both civil and criminal appeals from Mauritius and has experience in dealing with the Napoleonic Code and related jurisprudence.
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