David Pryce, Solicitor

Curriculum Vitae

Education
BA in English Literature, University of Birmingham
Postgraduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School
Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, BPP Law School

Professional Qualifications
Admitted as a Solicitor
Qualified as a Solicitor-Advocate (All Higher Courts)

Career
1999–2006: Thomas Eggar Solicitors
2006–2010: Williams Holden Cooklin Gibbons LLP
2010–present: Fenchurch Law LLP

Memberships

• The British Insurance Law Association (BILA)
• Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates (SAHCA)

Relevant experience

Professional Indemnity
Defendant

• Acting for various firms of surveyors in relation to claims for negligent surveys & valuations
• Acting for various construction professionals including architects, design & build contractors, engineers, & quantity surveyors
• Acting for various “non-traditional” professionals, including those in the ICT, Marketing, and Non-Profit sectors
• Acting for accountants in relation to claims by investors in various film finance / tax mitigation schemes
• Acting for various firms of solicitors in relation to claims arising (among other matters) out of: allowing litigation to be struck out for breach of undertaking; sale of client’s property at undervalue whilst operating an EPA; acting in conflict of interest for two parties to a failed mixed property / commercial transaction
• Acting for insurance intermediaries, IFAs, and insolvency practitioners

Professional Indemnity
Claimant

• Acting for Swedish subsidiary of Fortune 500 US corporation in claim against UK based hydraulic modellers arising out of losses caused by the failure of a pumping station which provided drinking water to 1/3 of the population of Shanghai
• Acting for Claimant charity in claim against two firms of accountants acting as independent examiners arising from their failure to discover misappropriations from the Charity’s funds
• Acting for major US utility Claimant assured in multi $m claim against their Lloyd’s brokers for failing to maintain subscribing market details relating to a policy placed on behalf of assured in 1960s

Public liability

• Acting for world leading offshore crane management contractor in relation to £1.75m claim by a major oil company, arising out of catastrophic parts failures in one of the Claimant’s cranes
• Acting for insurers in relation to numerous personal accident claims, ranging from low value volume claims to fatalities

Insurance

• Advising insurers in relation to the full spectrum of coverage issues including non-disclosure, misrepresentation, breach of warranty, & breach of condition precedent
• Acting for insurer in claim against assured solicitor for prejudice caused by late notification of PI claim, and as advocate obtaining summary judgment in contested application
• Acting for terminally ill assureds in claims for indemnity under medical insurance policies
• Acting for various US corporate assureds in the presentation of claims (including IBNR) to insolvent London Market insurers

Costs

• Extensive experience of dealing with inter partes costs claims