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Barrister acting in a wide range of public law, media, technology and information law and commercial law fields. Reached national attention as counsel to the Inquiry in the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry. Other significant inquiries include COVID-19 Inquiry, Nottingham Inquiry and Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Significant reported cases include R (on the application of Good Law Project Ltd) v Prime Minister [2022] EWHC 298 (Admin) (appointments of Baroness Harding and Dame Kate Bingham during the pandemic); Gubarev & Others v Buzzfeed [2018] EWHC 512 (QB) (letter of request relating to the Donald Trump Dossier); Bank Mellat v HM Treasury [2015] EWCA Civ 1052, [2016] EWCA Civ 452 (sanctions/financial restrictions on an Iranian bank); Rahmatullah (No 2) v Ministry of Defence, Mohamed v Ministry of Defence [2017] UKSC 1, [2017] 2 WLR 287 (Crown Act of State); and Al Waheed v Ministry of Defence, Mohammed v Ministry of Defence [2017] UKSC 2, [2017] 2 WLR 327 (detention in Iraq and Afghanistan).

Called 2006. Member of 6 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of David Perry QC) until 2015. Joined 11 King’s Bench Walk in 2015. Appointed junior counsel to the Crown (A Panel). Has appeared in courts and tribunals at all levels up the Supreme Court. Author/contributor to National Security Law, Procedure and Practice, OUP (2024); Blackstone’s Criminal Practice, OUP (2015) and EU Law in Criminal Practice, OUP (2013).

Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge (MA). Yale University, USA (Fox International Fellow). Astbury Scholarship and Lloyd Jacob Memorial Prize, Middle Temple.