Barrister Profile

Main Areas of Practice

Commercial Law
Land Law
Personal Injury
Probate

Biography

Mel Power has been in practice for some 27 years predominantly in Civil Law. He has wide experience in Personal Injury Law and Commercial/Property Law. He has a particular interest in Chancery and Commercial cases and also in Professional Negligence and Defamation matters. He has acted in and advised in many Clinical Negligence claims, Planning Appeals, Licensing Disputes, Lands Tribunal Hearings, Coroner’s Inquests, Banking Disputes, Payment Protection Insurance Claims, Building Disputes and Judicial Reviews.

Qualifications

LL.B

Certificate Professional Legal Studies

Member of Gray’s Inn

Experience

Fernheath Development Limited v Malone, David & another [2010] NICh 19

McTeggart, Brian v Waterways Ireland & another [2009] NIQB 44 (Whistleblowing Claim)

Officer O; in re application for judicial review [2008] NIQB 52; [2009] NI 55

Metso Minerals Inc v Powerscreen International Distribution Ltd & Ors [2008] NIMaster 55

Tarwood, Limited v Giordano, Antonino & another BT/38 & 39/2009

Conville, George & another; in re [part 1] R/64/2000

Hunt & Hampton Properties Limited v Trustees of Belvoir Park Golf Club R/86/2007

Copeland, Mary Catherine v Knight, Alan; in re Kelly, Therese Anne (deceased) [2006] NICh 1