Market-leading specialist in information law: data protection, privacy, platform disputes, data breaches, online safety, media and technology issues and freedom of information.
Vastly experienced in complex and high-value data protection disputes, including compensation group litigation, regulatory enforcement actions, cyberattack and data breach responses, privacy and anti-hacking injunctions, contentious subject access requests and compliance challenges to data-driven business models. Cases have involved major multinationals, including Meta/Facebook, X, TikTok, Experian, Google, Ticketmaster, Skybet and Equifax.
Consistently top-ranked data protection junior in legal directories before taking silk. Legal 500 named him Technology, Data and Crypto Junior of the Year in 2024.
Has appeared in hundreds of information rights appeals (FOI and environmental information).
Called 2008; Lincoln’s Inn. Member of Attorney General’s A Panel prior to taking silk in 2026. Commissary General (Chancellor), Diocese of Canterbury.
Ecclesiastical Law Society.
South African College School; University of Cape Town (2000 BA Business Science); Rhodes Scholar; Oxford University (2003 BA in PPE; 2004 MA philosophical theology); City University (2007 GDL), Inns of Court School of Law (2008 BVC).