The Legal 500

Position

Barrister specialising in numerous areas of practice. Commercial litigation cases include: Zockoll v Mercury [1998] FSR 354 (test for mandatory injunction); Hamilton v Al Fayed (non party costs application) [2003] QB 1175; Masri v Consolidated Contractors [2006] 1 WLR 830 (jurisdiction) [2009] QB 503 (anti-suit injunction), [2009] QB 450 (receiver and freezing order), [2010] 1 AC 90 (order for examination of director); Lilly ICOS v 8PM [2010] FSR 4 (damages on a cross-undertaking, illegality); professional negligence: Matrix Securities v Theodore Goddard [1998] PNLR 290; Perry v Moysey [1998] PNLR 657; George Barkes v LFC [2000] PNLR 21; Stewart v Engel & BDO Stoy Hayward [2001] 1 WLR 2268; Societe Internationale (SITA) v Watson Wyatt (2003) 147 SJLB 27; MAN v Freightliner v Ernst & Young [2008] 2 BCLC 22; Charter v City Index [2008] Ch 313; Pegasus v Ernst & Young [2010] 3 All ER 297; financial services: Equitable Life v Human [2002] 1 AC 408; Real Estate Opportunities v Aberdeen Asset Managers and others [2007] 2 All ER 791, JP Morgan v BVG [2010] QB 276, [2010] 1 CLC 628; insurance and reinsurance: The Travel Insurance Litigation [2003] Lloyd’s Rep IR 412; GE v New Hampshire: Destination Films [2004] Lloyd’s Rep IR 404; Toomey v Banco Vitalicio [2005] Lloyd’s Rep IR 423; marine insurance: The Zeus V [1999] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 703; NIMA v SARL; The Prestrioka [2003] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 327; shipping: The Happy Ranger [2006] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 649.

Career

Called 1995; Lincoln’s Inn; publications: ‘Guide to the Arbitration Act 1996’ (1996), with Rich and Lord QC; ‘Conflicts of Interest and Chinese Walls’ (3rd ed 2008), with Charles Hollander QC.

Member

Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ACA).

Education

Trinity School, Croydon; Lowlands Sixth Form College, Harrow; Keble College, Oxford (1990 BA; 2010 MA); City University (1994 Dip Law).

Practice Areas

Litigation - commercial