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Edward Parkes

Partner

E: eparkes@harcusparker.co.uk

Edward co-founded Harcus Parker in 2019. He is an experienced commercial litigator with a strong focus on group litigation and collective redress. He has an established reputation for handling complex commercial and financial disputes, as well as cases involving professional negligence, data protection, misuse of confidential information, secret commissions, and jurisdictional disputes.

Legal Expertise

Edward currently acts for tens of thousands of claimants in long-running litigation against Tesco for equal pay, one of the largest private sector equal pay actions in the UK. He regularly advises on multi-claimant proceedings and has a deep understanding of the strategic and procedural complexities involved in group litigation.

Notable cases include:

  • the Lloyds/HBOS shareholder litigation: acting for nearly 6,000 commercial and private shareholders in Lloyds bank against the bank’s directors for losses suffered when Lloyds acquired HBOS in 2019.
  • Astle and others v CBRE: acting on behalf of the claimant private investors in a professional negligence action against surveyors and a private bank
  • JEB Recoveries LLP v Binstock: acting for the successful defendant in proceedings raising issues of champerty and jurisdiction
  • Coward v Ambrosiadou: a successful jurisdiction challenge leading to the dismissal of a substantial £100m+ claim

Accreditations/Membership

London Solicitors Litigation Association and the Employment Lawyers Association.

Industry recognition

Edward is listed as a leading practitioner in Group Litigation in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500.

He is described in Chambers and Partners as “clear, informative, empathic and understanding”. “Ed is not only a force of nature, but very much thinks outside the box in finding creative and innovative solutions to problems, sometimes before they have even arisen.”

Legal 500 notes his “established group litigation practice and… specialist knowledge of case management, including litigation funding and insurance” and describes him as a “standout operator with a really realistic and commercial approach”.

 

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