Profile
David Hughes joined 30 Park Place in June 2007, after practising for 10 years at the Gibraltar Bar, where he appeared in some of the most important Constitutional cases, as well as a practice including personal injury and professional negligence claims, contractual cases, and social housing, as well as a small number of criminal cases.
David's main focus is primarily Administrative law, and areas in which ordinary civil law meets Public Law. A major reason for his return to Wales was a desire to be involved in the exciting legal environment of post-devolution Wales.
The 2008 edition of the Legal 500 describes him as specialising "...in administrative and public law".
He has also acted in a number of libel actions, one of which involved a leading local politician
As a Spanish speaker with experience of cross-border litigation, David has an interest in litigation with a Spanish connection.
Fields of Work
Public & Administrative law
- Privy Council-challenge to all-male juries
- Challenge to the Costs regime in Criminal cases pending before ECHR
- Court of Appeal (CoA)-squatter eviction
- Extradition
- CoA-Habeus Corpus (European Arrest Warrant)
- CoA-challenge to indictable trial costs regime
- JR-prisoner denied prescription drugs
- Legality of CFAs
- Factories Inspectorate-no blanket PII
- Mental Health Tribunal-absence of Legal Aid
- Disclosure of complaint against police
- Bail variation-preserving costs arguments
- Inadequate legal aid scheme denying fair trial
- Fair trial-magistrates giving conviction reasons
- Duty of care by police officers to detainees
- Currently part of the legal team representing the Chief Justice of Gibraltar in his challenge to the consititutionality of the Judicial Service Act
(all the above relate to Gibraltar law)
- Extradition (see major cases, above)
- Mental Health
- Misfeasance in public office
- Advising Local Authority on powers to charge supported tenants who are accompanied on holiday by members of staff
European
- Compensation for flight delays under EU Regulation 261/2004
Regulatory
- H & S prosecution
- Overloading of animal transportation lorries
- Dilapidated building remedies
Chancery:
- Social housing
- Landlord & Tenant
- Co-ownership
- Partnership
Employment
- Unfair dismissal
- Statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures
- Disability discrimination
- Constructive dismissal (Democratic Services Manager at Local Authority)
- Protected disclosure
- Age discrimination
- Agricultural wages legislation
Commercial
- Building development planning issues
- Contract (Chinese bike supplier)
- Debt under contract of employment-possible action in China
- Freezing orders
- Debt
- Security of tenure-business premises
- Commission-funding for flights from Swansea airport
Media and Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property (copyright)
- Defamation libel and slander
- Data protection
- Privacy
- Human Rights-Housing Association installation of CCTV cameras to record unruly behaviour
- Design rights
Personal Injury:
- Actions agains the police for wrongful arrest, Unlawful imprisonment
- Accidents at sea
- Cross-border litigation
Clincial Negligence
- Failed vasectomy
- Hysterectomy
- DVT following Caesarean
