Christopher Stead
Call: 2008
- University of Leeds – Law (LLB) – First Class
- BPP Law School (Leeds), BVC – Outstanding
- Baron Dr Ver Heyden Lancey Prize (Middle Temple)
- Chancery Bar Association
- PIBA
Christopher has a young family, so much leisure time is happily spent watching them grow up. He likes regular weight training at the gym, which sometimes conflicts with a recently discovered gift of baking.
Hailing from south Wales, he has an obligatory love of rugby, and music, spending much of his youth playing the trombone in a variety of excellent ensembles; although he does not play much anymore, he still enjoys music of all sorts, and listens to it live whenever he can.
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Christopher joined Chambers as a tenant in February 2023, following successful completion of his third six pupillage. Originally, Christopher practised as a tenant in the business and property team at Kings Chambers (Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham), having undertaken pupillage with Mark Harper KC and Andrew Latimer. He took a career break to be ordained in the Church of England, and lectured in doctrine and church history at theological college, and has returned to the Bar with a busy and thriving practice.
Christopher’s experience and expertise covers a range of civil matters, with a particular focus on property and business litigation, alongside personal injury work.
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Christopher undertakes work in a range of commercial disputes, and has had significant experience of many of the usual issues involved in connection with such litigation, including contractual formation and interpretation, franchise agreements and post-termination restrictive covenants, sale of goods and supply of services, banking and finance, guarantees, professional negligence, all in addition to aspects related to civil procedure. He has represented major companies as well as smaller traders and individuals, he has appeared at all stages of proceedings, and is able to bring a practical and commercial perspective to whatever the individual case requires.
Christopher has also dealt with many aspects of personal and corporate insolvency litigation. He has acted for creditors and companies in winding-up proceedings (both in the winding up list and in contested cases), in bankruptcy petitions, and has appeared for insolvency practitioners on a number of matters.
Christopher has experience of various forms of property claims, both commercial and residential, and accepts instructions across the whole spectrum of property litigation.
In real property cases, he has acted, advised, and drafted in relation to boundary disputes (including multi-day trials), rights of way, nuisance claims, and others, and has handled complex issues of adverse possession and proprietary estoppel.
He has advised and acted for landlords in residential possession proceedings (including as against trespassers), and for landlords in commercial leasehold claims, including renewals of business tenancies, as well as forfeiture claims in long leasehold disputes. He recently secured a generous award of damages for a tenant in a dilapidations claim, he has advised on leasehold enfranchisement, and is currently instructed in service charge proceedings.
Christopher accepts instructions in all matters relating to personal injury. He has extensive experience of credit hire claims, and successfully deploys arguments for both claimants and defendants in such cases, including the dismissal of a claim on the basis of need, and resisting reductions in the period of hire.
He regularly appears in liability trials, and has successfully opposed an application for a finding of fundamental dishonesty in a road traffic accident claim. He has appeared in occupier’s liability proceedings, he has advised on claims involving strict liability, and has been involved in industrial disease work. He is willing to take instructions for both Claimants and Defendants at all levels of personal injury litigation.
Christopher represents clients in interim applications in personal injury cases, including strike out, relief from sanctions, directions and allocation hearings, stage three MOJ portal hearings, and others.
Christopher is keen to develop his practice into inheritance work, including contentious probate and administration actions, having had experience of advising on the same, and appearing at the periphery of contentious probate proceedings.
- University of Leeds – Law (LLB) – First Class
- BPP Law School (Leeds), BVC – Outstanding
- Baron Dr Ver Heyden Lancey Prize (Middle Temple)
- Chancery Bar Association
- PIBA
Christopher has a young family, so much leisure time is happily spent watching them grow up. He likes regular weight training at the gym, which sometimes conflicts with a recently discovered gift of baking.
Hailing from south Wales, he has an obligatory love of rugby, and music, spending much of his youth playing the trombone in a variety of excellent ensembles; although he does not play much anymore, he still enjoys music of all sorts, and listens to it live whenever he can.
Instructing Christopher Stead
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If you require help or advice please contact our clerking team.
Call +44 (0)20 7353 0711 or email clerks@pumpcourtchambers.com.