Specialist in public law, human rights, discrimination and education. Recent cases include R v. Mackinlay [2018] UKSC 42 (notional election expenses), R (Steinfeld and Keidan) v. SSID [2018] UKSC 32 (opposite sex civil partnerships), Reilly v. Sandwell MBC [2018] UKSC 16 (whether dismissal of headteacher unfair), R (DSD) v. Parole Board [2018] EWHC 694 (Admin) (lawfulness of release of John Warboys), R (Elan-Cane) v. SSHD [2018] EWHC 1530 (Admin) (issue of passports with ungendered sex marker), Re M (Children) [2017] EWCA Civ 2164 (contact arrangements between trans father and children), and R (Al-Hijrah) v. Ofsted [2017] EWCA Civ 1426 (whether segregation of pupils constituted sex discrimination).

Called 2003; Lincoln’s Inn; Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel (A Panel) (2017); Equality and Human Rights Commission Panel of Counsel (B Panel) (2015); Pegasus Scholar (at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York) (2008); lecturer in law, King’s College, London (2000-05). Publications of note: ‘Special Educational Needs and Disability’ (with Aileen McColgan and Elizabeth Prochaska) (2017); contributor to Richard McManus QC, ‘Education and the Courts’ (2012).

ALBA; PEBA; HRLA; ELAS.

Millfield School; Penrice School; University of Nottingham (1998 LLB); McGill University (1999 LLM).