Dan Hall

Expertise Dan Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Construction, Engineering & Infrastructure

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Expertise

Dan has over 20 years’ experience in dispute resolution with particular expertise in the construction and commercial property sectors. He deals with high value, complex disputes advising employers/developers, contractors, professional consultants, landlords, tenants and agents. Within the construction sector, he has also advised insurers, brokers and various construction professionals in connection with professional indemnity and CAR claims.

As well as dealing with construction and commercial property disputes, Dan also has experience with IT development disputes; professional negligence claims; professional indemnity and other insurance disputes; and general commercial disputes.

Dan has been recommended in Chambers UK and Legal 500 as having ‘excellent strategic judgement’ and being a ‘robust litigator’. He was part of a team which won the Construction Team of the Year Award (UK) in the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards in 2016.

He is a member of the Society of Construction Law.

Dan Advises

SME developers and contractors;
Construction professionals
Landlords & Tenants
High net worth individuals
Technology companies
International retailers

Experience Highlights

Advising Avail on all aspects of the construction, property law and real estate assistance needed to manage its property portfolio.
Advising Vision Construct Limited’s contractor on a high-value mixed use scheme at Graphite Square in Vauxhall, London.
Acted in adjudications in the reported case of Victory House General Partner Ltd v RGB P&C Ltd [2018] EWHC 1143 (Ch), [2019] Ch 1.
Advised an off-shore trust fund in relation to various ‘distressed property developments’ the beneficiaries of the trust had invested in as well as by the owner of a £multi-million house in London where the parties have already engaged in 5 adjudications, which also has TCC proceedings on foot.
In charge of a circa £15 million claim in relation to the defective design of flooring slabs and drainage at a builders’ yard, which settled at a multi-party mediation for a sum (costs inclusive) substantially less than the claim.
In charge of substantial claims involving project managers, contract administrators, design and build contractors, and building surveyors.
In charge of a £5 million adjudication in connection with the design and monitoring of construction of a sealed water system at a multi-storey office block.
Assisted with the factually complex and long-running defence of a design consultancy that provided various design and engineering services in connection with the design and construction of a new runway — the first such runway built in the UK since WW2.
Assisted with the detailed defence of a Managing Agent, sued for damages in excess of £120 million in connection with a fire at a warehouse where the entire summer stock of a leading retailer, bespoke sorting machinery, and warehouse were entirely destroyed.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

Partner, Cannings Connolly (2017–2022)
Legal Director, Bond Dickinson LLP (2015–2017)
Partner, Plexus Law (2011–2015)
Associate, Fishburns Solicitors (2008–2011)
Solicitor, Halliwells LLP (2005–2008)

Memberships

Society of Construction Law
Solicitors’ Roll, England, and Wales

Education

LPC — College of Law, Guildford
LLB (Hons) — University of Southampton
A-Levels and 10 GCSEs — St Peter’s RC School, Bournemouth

Expertise

He is a member of the Society of Construction Law.

Dan Advises

SME developers and contractors;
Construction professionals
Landlords & Tenants
High net worth individuals
Technology companies
International retailers

Experience Highlights

Advising Avail on all aspects of the construction, property law and real estate assistance needed to manage its property portfolio.
Advising Vision Construct Limited’s contractor on a high-value mixed use scheme at Graphite Square in Vauxhall, London.
Acted in adjudications in the reported case of Victory House General Partner Ltd v RGB P&C Ltd [2018] EWHC 1143 (Ch), [2019] Ch 1.
Advised an off-shore trust fund in relation to various ‘distressed property developments’ the beneficiaries of the trust had invested in as well as by the owner of a £multi-million house in London where the parties have already engaged in 5 adjudications, which also has TCC proceedings on foot.
In charge of a circa £15 million claim in relation to the defective design of flooring slabs and drainage at a builders’ yard, which settled at a multi-party mediation for a sum (costs inclusive) substantially less than the claim.
In charge of substantial claims involving project managers, contract administrators, design and build contractors, and building surveyors.
In charge of a £5 million adjudication in connection with the design and monitoring of construction of a sealed water system at a multi-storey office block.
Assisted with the factually complex and long-running defence of a design consultancy that provided various design and engineering services in connection with the design and construction of a new runway — the first such runway built in the UK since WW2.
Assisted with the detailed defence of a Managing Agent, sued for damages in excess of £120 million in connection with a fire at a warehouse where the entire summer stock of a leading retailer, bespoke sorting machinery, and warehouse were entirely destroyed.