Adrian Davies
| Adrian Davies | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 June 1962 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Barrister, solicitor |
| Known for | Former Conservative Monday Club official; ex-chairman of the Freedom Party |
| Political party | British Democratic Party |
| Parent(s) |
Michael Davies Maria Jozica Milos |
Adrian Michael Davies (born 17 June 1962) is a barrister and a member of Lincoln's Inn, London. He was formerly a solicitor with the leading law firm Slaughter and May. He is the eldest son of the traditionalist Catholic writer, Michael Davies.
Davies was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took a first class honours degree in modern languages in 1985 and at the University of London where he took a LLM degree. Davies is fluent in French and Croatian.
After a year spent as a trainee at Ernst & Young, Davies qualified and practised litigation for six years as a solicitor at Slaughter and May. His specialist area was property litigation, in which field he was known as a tenacious and enthusiastic litigator. Davies retrained as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1998. He now practises at 3 Dr Johnson's Buildings. His specialist areas include recoveries; real property, mortgages, landlord & tenant; wills, probate and trusts; civil actions against the Police, Customs & Excise et al.; and slander and libel.
He unsuccessfully represented the controversial British Holocaust denier David Irving at the Court of Appeal in 2001 after Irving had failed in a libel action against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. Irving had represented himself at the trial before Mr Justice Gray.
In a landmark family law case in 2006 he successfully represented Lillian Day in a dispute with her son over the beneficial ownership of a family home.
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