The Legal 500

Work Department

Litigation department.

Position

Consultant in litigation department; solicitor advocate (higher courts – civil); specialises in offshore trust litigation (eg Zanussi v AVREAD, Midland Bank Trustee (Jersey) Ltd v Federated Pension Services, T Choithram International SA v Pagarani) and judicial review (eg R (Palmer) v Exeter Coroner, R (MPC) v Croydon Coroner, R (Middleton) v West Somerset Coroner, R (Goodson) v Bedfordshire Coroner); R (IPCC) v Inner North London Coroner; visiting professor, School of Law, King’s College London; visiting professor, Jersey Institute of Law, coroner, City of London; deputy chancery master; recorder (specialist civil).

Career

Lecturer University College London 1979-83; qualified as barrister 1981; qualified as solicitor England and Wales 1987, Ireland 1997; partner Hopkins & Wood 1987-92; consultant Hopkins & Wood 1992-96; consultant Withers since 1996; visiting professor, King’s College London since 1995; deputy coroner, City of London 1994-2002; coroner, City of London since 2002; publications: ‘Underhill & Hayton on Trusts and Trustees’ with David Hayton and Charles Mitchell (18th ed 2010); ‘Disclosure’ with HM Malek QC (3rd edition 2007); ‘Jervis on Coroners’ (12th edition 2002); ‘The Jersey Law of Trusts’ with TC Sowden QC (third edition 1994); ‘Trusts: Migration and Change of Proper Law’ (1997); ‘Trust and Estate Disputes’ (1999); current directorships: The Jersey Law Review Ltd.

Languages

French, Italian.

Member

British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; City of London Solicitors’ Company; The Law Society; Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates; Coroners’ Society of England and Wales; Royal Society of Medicine.

Education

St Peter’s School, Bournemouth; University College London (1977 LLB); St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1979 BCL); Inns of Court School of Law (1981 Bar Exam); University of London (1996 LLD).

Leisure

Music, reading, cinema.

Practice Areas

Administrative and public law; Litigation - commercial; Private client