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Michael specialises in construction and engineering disputes and general commercial litigation. Michael’s cases typically involve high-value and technically-complex disputes, both in the TCC and international litigation and arbitration.

More recently, the Building Safety Act 2022 has featured heavily in his practice, on which he has spoken widely and participated in some of the leading litigation.

Michael serves as a member of the Executive Committee of TECBAR and is a TECBAR-accredited Adjudicator and Mediator.

He was elected to the Council of the Society of Construction Law in 2023, on which he chairs the annual Hudson Prize competition.

In 2024, Michael was appointed to the Attorney General’s Counsel to the Crown (London B Panel) and one of that panel’s only specialist construction practitioners.

He also sits on the Consulting Editorial Board for LexisNexis Construction Law.

In addition to his practice, Michael is a Visiting Lecturer, Examiner and an LLM supervisor at The City Law School, University of London, and lectures at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London.

Called 2015, Lincoln’s Inn.

Society of Construction Law (Member of Council) TECBAR (Executive Committee) Bar Council Appointments Service (Panel Mediator) Fellow, Royal Society of Arts Medico-Legal Society (Member of Council) British Insurance Law Association London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association Bar Pro Bono Unit

BPTC and LL.M. (Distinction, highest mark in year) – The City Law School, London Bar Professional Training Course (‘Very Competent’) – The City Law School, London MA (with Honours and Commonwealth Scholarship) in Law – Trinity College, Cambridge (graduated in two years) MSc in Comparative Social Policy – St Cross College, Oxford BA in political science, summa cum laude – University of Pennsylvania (graduated two years early)

Whilst at Bar school, Michael received numerous scholarships from Lincoln’s Inn and was one-half of the team which won the national Inter-Provider Moot Competition. He similarly was one-half of the winning team awarded the Lincoln’s Inn Debating Shield.