Ian Groom

Formerly a solicitor in private practice, qualifying in 1983, he transferred to the County Prosecuting Solicitors Department in South Yorkshire in 1985 and then to the Bar in 1990. He has built a large general common law practice involving crime, civil and general property. In crime, he has prosecuted and defended the entire range of criminal offences and continues to do so. His civil work is wide ranging: personal injury; professional negligence; commercial litigation including Sale of Goods; insolvency; employment including discrimination; licensing; land law and general property disputes including conveyancing, planning appeals, boundary disputes, Land Registration disputes, landlord and tenant, TLATA, Inheritance Act claims, and contentious probate. He enjoys mixed crime/civil work e.g. civil actions against the police, inquests, and police disciplinary work and regulatory offences.

He is involved in legal training. Recent lectures have been on:
Joint tenancies and tenancies in common before and after Stack – to the local law society (with Andrew Lord of Paradise Chambers);
Police Disciplinary Tribunals – in house training for Chambers.

Year of Call

1990

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