Parity Chambers

David is recommended as a leading junior in employment, discrimination, and equality law with a burgeoning appellate practice. He represents individuals, charities, trade unions, and NGOs and has appeared in several landmark cases at all tiers of the judicial system, including the Supreme Court. David has been consistently ranked in the directories and recognised for his tenacious and meticulous advocacy in complex discrimination, whistleblowing, and employment status/holiday pay cases. David was nominated for Employment Junior of the Year in the 2017 Chambers UK Bar Awards, Junior of the Year and Employment Junior of the Year in the 2023 and 2024 Legal 500 UK Bar Awards. He has extensive experience representing clients in high-value and sensitive multi-day cases dealing with complex and intricate factual and legal issues. David is particularly known for his strategic thinking and fighting spirit. His advocacy and attention to detail are outstanding, complemented by his warm and exceptional client care skills. He has developed a broad practice covering all aspects of discrimination across all strands in the employment and non-employment fields with a proven track record of getting results, including securing £1million for a senior IT Manager (Hastings v KCH Foundation NHS Trust) and £463k for a Teacher (Burton-York v Diocese of Westminster Academy Trust) who were subjected to race discrimination.

David has a wealth of experience representing individuals at all levels across all sectors, including acting for a Chief Operating Officer of an English League Football Club, judges (District Judge Gilham (No 2) and Mr Recorder Herbert); Solicitors; Military Personnel (Dr Ukey v Ministry of Defence); Senior Executives and other high-net-worth individuals (Knupffer v Advanced Micro Devices (UK) Ltd; Pierre-Harvey v Oxford Brookes University); Police Officers at all ranks (Denby v the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and Gardner v the Chief Constable Thames Valley Police); University Lecturers, Teachers (Phillips & Others v The Diocese of Westminster Academy Trust and Burton-York v The Diocese of Westminster Academy Trust; Graphic Designers; Civil Servants (Quarccoo v The Scottish Ministers); Consultant Surgeons and other NHS staff such as Chiropractors, Nurses, Senior Management and IT Professionals (Hastings v Kings College NHS Foundation Trust).

David’s non-employment work consists of discrimination in the fields of services and public functions, housing and education. He has a particular interest in disability discrimination and holding public bodies to account under the public sector equality duties contained in s.149 EqA 2010. He appeared as Junior Counsel in the important case of Pieretti v London Borough Enfield [2010] EWCA Civ 1104, concerning the application of the equality duties contained in what was then section 49A Disability Discrimination Act 1995 to individual decisions made by local housing authorities under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996. He also represented the appellants (sole counsel) in the Court of Appeal in the case of Lalil Singh v Spirita Housing[2012] Eq.L.R. 560 CA.

David has been a member of the Equality & Human Rights Commission Panel of Preferred Counsel since January 2015 and was reappointed to Panel B in February 2024.

Year of call: 2005