Crown Office Chambers

His personal injury practice includes all kinds of personal injury work for both claimants and defendants. He has considerable experience in catastrophic and other high-value claims. His work generally involves: brain and spinal and other orthopaedic injuries including paraplegia and tetraplegia; amputations and prosthetics; death and dependency; toxic substances – COSHH claims, carbon monoxide and other gas poisoning, food poisoning; accidents abroad. Jurisdiction and applicable law issues; stress, bullying and harassment claims; limitation; cases of complex causation; MIB and CICAP. He regularly handles multi-million pound claims, both on his own and with leading counsel. He is often instructed on his own against leading counsel. His industrial disease practice includes mesothelioma and other asbestos-related conditions; taking evidence on commission; work-related upper limb conditions; noise induced hearing loss; limitation, causation and apportionment.

Called 1993; Inner Temple; Inner Temple Transitional Award and Major Scholarship.

French, Spanish.

Commercial Bar Association; London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; Personal Injury Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; TECBAR.

Shrewsbury School; Balliol College, Oxford (1991 BA); City University (1992 CPE).