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Position
Barrister specialising in general commercial contract law (with an emphasis on insurance and reinsurance disputes), employment law including trade disputes and discrimination, and professional negligence. Reported cases include: insurance and reinsurance: Employers Liability Policy Trigger Litigation [2011] Lloyd’s Rep IR1; Horwood v Land of Leather [2010] Lloyd Rep IR 453; Bedfordshire Police v Constable [2009] Lloyd’s Rep IR 607; MJ Harrington v Axa Oyak Sigorta [2007] Lloyd’s Rep IR 60; Tektrol v Int Ins of Hanover [2005] 2 Lloyds Rep 701, CA; Countrywide Assured Group v DJ Marshall and Ors [2003] Lloyd’s Rep IR 195; Jacobs v Coster & Avon [2000] Lloyds Rep IR 506, CA; employment: Malone v British Airways [2011] ICR 125; RMT v Serco, ASLEF v London Midland [2011] IRLR 399; EDF Energy v RMT [2010] IRLR 114; GMB v Amicus [2003] ICR 1396, EAT; Comm Inland Revenue v Post Office [2003] IRLR 199, EAT; Bennett v LB Southwark [2002] ICR 881 (CA); Jones v Post Office [2001] IRLR 384 (CA); Sheehan v Post Office Counters [1999] ICR 734 EAT; Wood v William Ball Ltd [2000] ICR 277; commercial litigation: Anson v Trump [1998] 1 WLR 1404 CA.
Career
Called Middle Temple 1993; Recorder since 2009, Bar Standards Board Complaints Committee; co-editor ‘Bloomsbury Discrimination Law’(1999); co-author ‘Law of Reinsurance’ (OUP 2005); various articles in the ‘New Law Journal’ on insurance law and disability discrimination topics.
Member
COMBAR; LCLCBA; BILA; ELA; ELBA.
Education
Dover Grammar School for Boys; Downing College, Cambridge (MA); Astbury Scholar, Middle Temple.
Leisure
Drama, scouting, outdoor activities.
Practice Areas
Employment; Litigation - commercial; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance
