David Bowden
Call to the Bar Inner Temple 1987
Admitted to practice in New York 2003
Civil, Financial, Insolvency, Motoring
David comes to Erimus Chambers after an extensive career which has been spent in-house in a number of blue-chip companies or banks,
in private practice at solicitor’s firms and as a sole practitioner.
He is developing a general civil practice throughout the courts in London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, and neighbouring counties.
He accepts instructions in criminal cases with a financial services element such as money laundering, proceeds of crime or asset confiscation.
He also accepts instructions to provide written advice or to draft documents relating to financial services.
He can provide advice or draft complaints for cases before the Financial Ombudsman Service.
David practices in all the civil courts whether it is the county court or High Court.
He undertakes small claims hearings, fast track or multi track trials or contested applications in civil cases.
He has extensive experience in consumer credit, costs, sale of goods, hire purchase, mortgage possession hearings, unfair relationship claims,
connected lender liability claims, financial disputes (whether for individuals or businesses) and bankruptcy.
He accepts instructions in personal or corporate insolvency. He will conduct advocacy in costs cases before Regional Costs Judges or in the Senior Courts Costs Office.
David is a co-editor of Sweet and Maxwell’s 5-volume Encyclopedia of Consumer Credit Law and is a recognised expert in consumer credit
and financial regulation issues. He regularly writes on financial services for the Journal of Banking Law, the Solicitor’s Journal,
the Journal of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and Lexis PSL. David has been the instructing solicitor on many of the high profile
consumer credit cases in recent years some of which have reached the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.