Profile description
Kwabena has long-standing experience of a broad range of civil law proceedings. His principal areas of practice are as follows:
Commercial
- Breach of contract claims
- Breach of trust claims
- Negligence claims involving architects and designers, builders, electricians and other construction professionals
- Claims involving finance agreements, financial advisers, consumer credit and consumer fairness
- Claims involving contracts for the storage of goods
- Claims involving negligence and breach of contract involving vehicles
- Drafting and advising on contractual and commercial agreements
- Fraud, fraudulent and negligent misstatement, professional negligence, malicious falsehood and libel and other areas of liability in tort
- Bankruptcy & Insolvency
- Costs disputes arising out of his clients' proceedings
Property Law:
- Landlord and Tenant claims in relation to commercial and residential buildings including
- lease disputes
- rent arrears claims (posession)
- disrepair
- dilapidations
- Residential and commercial licences
- Boundary, neighbour and nuisance disputes
- Disputes in relation to trusts, title and ownership
- Orders for sale
Construction
Kwabena is a specialist in construction, engineering and technology law and national and international dispute resolution. Kwabena has experience of advising on and preparing bespoke agreements relating to construction, engineering and technology projects and of advising on a range of standard-form agreements, including various editions of FIDIC, the ICE, the JCT, the NEC and the RIBA forms.
- Claims involving the building regulations
- Disputes over defective works
- Unpaid invoices
- Party Wall Act matters
- Claims involving defective fixtures and fittings including wiring, electrical appliances, lifts, sanitation, water supply, showers, and windows
Professional Disciplinary
Over the years Kwabena has accrued extensive experience of advising and representing clients in relation to professional regulation and discplinary proceedings. He has appeared before regulatory panels in a number of different professional sectors including the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), General Medical Council (GMC), The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), General Dental Council (GDC), and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
Background
Kwabena graduated in law from the University of Warwick in 1982, was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1983, obtained an MSc in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from Kings College London in 2011 and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana in 2012.
