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John Craggs

John Craggs

  • Called to BAR: 2006
  • Contract Law
  • Divorce
  • Family & Children
  • Judicial Review
  • Professional Negligence
  • Property, Chancery & Trusts
  • Tax

Summary

John has a wide-ranging, nationwide practice and receives instructions in a variety of practice areas including, tax law, chancery and commercial litigation, family law, employment law, public law and Judicial Review. John is an experienced trial lawyer and a persuasive and confident advocate in contested final hearings.

Specialist areas of law include

  • Contract Law
  • Divorce
  • Family & Children
  • Judicial Review
  • Professional Negligence
  • Property, Chancery & Trusts
  • Tax

Profile description

John is a dual-qualified Barrister and Chartered Accountant. In between stints in legal practice, John spent five years working for two of the big four professional services firms (Deloitte and PwC), initially within Corporate and Personal Tax and later in Risk Assurance. He was admitted as an ICAEW-regulated Chartered Accountant in 2016, a role in which he remains accredited.

This combination of significant legal and commercial experience affords the rare ability of providing commercially realistic, practical and understandable advice, while being mindful of the legalities surrounding these.

John is an experienced trial lawyer and a persuasive and confident advocate. He is adept at building and maintaining relationships with instructing solicitors and skilled at client care, being able to relate to and put at ease those he represents.

Areas of Specialism:

  • Tax

John spent over 3 years working in tax compliance and advisory services within the big four, also gaining exposure to high value tax and VAT litigation. Being dual qualified, he is in a unique position to offer insight into tax matters from both a legal and commercial standpoint. John is one of the very few Barristers in the country to hold both qualifications, the combination of which is almost non-existent outside of London.

  • Family law

John accepts instructions to deal with a wide-range of family proceedings, including child arrangements order (contact and residence), divorce and financial settlement and injunctive remedies before the family courts (Non-molestation Orders, Occupation Orders and Prohibited Steps Orders). His commitment to offering his clients robust representation in court makes him an ideal barrister for contested final hearings in this highly emotive area of law.

  • Chancery and Commercial litigation

John has acted in a range of commercial and contractual disputes, as well as property matters (mortgage and landlord and tenant), professional negligence and insolvency. In this area, his attention to detail combined with an ability to offer succinct, understandable and realistic advice allows for the provision of a high quality and effective service to clients.

  • Public law & Judicial Review

John has extensive experience of Judicial Review proceedings in the administrative court, having accepted instructions to advise and represent lay clients in relation to the challenging of decisions made by a variety of public bodies.

John also has a significant written practice, advising regularly on the merits of cases, producing opinions on quantum and drafting pleadings.

This wide exposure to other areas of law means that he is adaptable to the receipt of instructions in numerous fields and is adept at grasping the complexities presented by them in a very short time frame.

John also accepts instructions in various other areas, including:

  • Personal Injury
  • Immigration
  • Employment

John read Law with French and spent a year living in Montpellier as part of his degree. He remains fluent in French. He is also a keen musician, primarily as a classical pianist. He enjoys spending time with his wife, young daughter and extended family and is a keen sportsman, including football, cricket, swimming, running and skiing. Personal

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