Mark’s practice focuses on Employment and Education law.
Mark has acted as sole counsel in the EAT and High Court, and as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Mark was called to the Bar in 2016.
In his employment practice, Mark has particular experience of high-value whistleblowing and discrimination cases. Instructed as sole counsel, Mark has obtained sums of over £1m for Claimants and successfully defended claims of over £10m for Respondents.
For the past year, Mark has been instructed by Tesco in the defence of equal pay claims brought by 50,000 Claimants.
Mark’s recent appellate and High Court cases include:
Tesco Stores Ltd v Element [2025] EAT 26 and [2025] EAT 145: EAT decisions concerning the admissibility of economic expert evidence.
Vassallo v Mizuho International plc [2024] EAT 170: EAT decision concerning an amendment application.
Jump Trading v Couture [2023] EWHC 1305: High Court application for interim injunctive relief to enforce a restrictive covenant.
Robinson v Al-Qasimi [2021] IRLR 774: Court of Appeal decision on the illegality defence.
In his education practice, Mark has particular expertise in disability discrimination cases and challenges to school inspection reports. He represented the Respondent in MM v Royal Borough of Greenwich [2024] UKUT 179 in which the Upper Tribunal provided important guidance on the approach to Health and Social Care recommendations in EHC Plans.
Mark studied Classics at Jesus College, Oxford before completing the GDL (Distinction, fifth overall) and BPTC (Outstanding) at City University.