Michael is experienced at advising businesses in a wide range of disputes. His qualifications as a mediator and adjudicator mean that he is ideally placed to advise on the strategy to be adopted in each case, bearing in mind the legal position, commercial reputation and relationships and the cost and timescale of litigation.

In construction cases, Michael has experience of conducting TCC and other building litigation covering a wide range of disputes from major construction developments to domestic dwellings and industrial workplaces. His experience of construction and property cases provides a solid basis for handling professional negligence claims against surveyors, valuers, architects, and solicitors, in local and international transactions.

Michael has extensive experience acting for landlords and tenants in commercial and residential property cases, with clients ranging from large housebuilders to local authorities and individuals. His recent cases involve dispositions of freehold and leasehold interests, possession, rent arrears, disrepair, dilapidations, and service charges. He has recently been successful in a claim against a guarantor under a commercial lease in respect of the lessee's rent, insurance rent, and repairing obligations.

He has considerable experience of acting in boundary dispute cases enabling warring neighbours to achieve satisfactory outcomes. He advises on complex restrictive covenants, and has successfully appeared in Land Tribunal applications to resist the modification and discharge of such covenants.