Martin Woodford is a meticulous partner who pays great attention to detail
Martin’s recent experience includes:
Private Client Work
Martin is an acknowledged expert and has an extensive practice in private wealth disputes and lead the team at Ward Hadaway. Martin has experience of acting on behalf of private individuals, families, trustees and charities includes;
- Acting for family members who had not been provided for in their relative’s final Will
- Representing a family member in a successful claim that their parents had executed mutual Wills
- Acting for beneficiaries under a trust in multi-party proceedings alleging breaches of trustees’ duties in respect of their investment powers
- Acting for beneficiaries of a trust in a claim against the trustees for mismanagement of the trust’s assets
- Acting for a class of circa 250+ private investors who had lost their capital in the failure of the corporate mini-bond offered by The Providence Group
Professional Negligence
- Acting in a professional negligence claim against previous advisers following the variation of a Will
- Acting against a number of advisers following negligent tax advice and large losses in relation to film schemes
Examples of commercial work includes
- Acting for major hotel group in a claim relating to its energy supplies
- Acting in a number of shareholder disputes
- Acting for company in on-site oil sector against claim from major oil producer
- Acting for client against insurer following declinature of cover following flooding
- Acting for client against HMRC in major dispute re application of Zim Properties
- Acting for a Claimant Commissioning Group (CCG) in an application to lift the suspensory effect of the issue of proceedings
- Acting for the CCG in the defence of a challenge to the procurement of a multi-million pound contract for the provision of musco-skeletal services
Briefing: regulatory issues highlighted by the collapse of Secured Energy Bonds