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David is a leading personal injury and employment junior. He is the head of Chambers’ employment team.

“He is really impressive – smart and efficient” (Chambers & Partners (personal injury: industrial disease), 2025).

“David is simply outstanding” (Chambers & Partners (employment), 2025)

David is ranked as a leading junior for both personal injury and employment law, in both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500.

In personal injury he specialises in occupational and environmental disease claims, including all aspects of asbestos disease; noise-induced hearing loss; and cases involving the armed forces. David is instructed in the Military Deafness Litigation, one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2025.

In employment he appears regularly in the Employment Tribunal and the EAT in a variety of statutory employment cases.

Cases include:

Minis Childcare Ltd v Hilton-Webb [2024] EAT 108: successful appeal concerning the relationship between indirect discrimination and the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees.

Barry v Ministry of Defence [2023] EWHC 459 (KB): military noise-induced hearing loss case with widespread implications for the quantum of earnings-related damages for disabled claimants.

Abbott v Ministry of Defence [2022] EWHC 1807 (QB): junior counsel for nearly 3,500 claimants for noise-induced hearing loss and/or tinnitus brought against the MOD.

Wokingham Borough Council v Arshad [2022] EWHC 2419 (KB): successful appeal on behalf of a local authority against claim for psychiatric damage, brought by a taxi driver after a mistake in the taxi licensing process.

Called 2015.

German, Welsh.

David is a member of PIBA, ELA, ELBA, the Industrial Law Society. He is Chair of the Rights at Work section of the Society of Labour Lawyers and a member of its executive committee.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and of the Royal Statistical Society.

BPTC, City Law School: outstanding GDL, City Law School: distinction BA (Hons), MA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Lincoln College, Oxford University Exhibition and Duke of Edinburgh Scholar, Inner Temple Former teaching fellow in contract law at SOAS, University of London