Barrister specialising in personal injury work with a particular focus on travel litigation including aviation claims. Has acted in a number of leading cases in this area including Homawoo v GMF Assurances (C-412/10) (in which the CJEU definitively confirmed the date of entry into effect of Rome II); Keefe v Mapfre & Hoteles Pinero Canarias [2013] EWHC 4279 (QB) (on jurisdiction over a foreign tortfeasor, currently on appeal to Court of Appeal); Middleton v Allianz & Middleton [2012] EWHC 2287 (QB) (on applicable law of claim and additional claim for overseas accident), Jones v AGF [2010] ILPr 4 and Thwaites v Aviva [2010] Lloyd’s Rep IR 667 (jurisdiction and applicable law in direct claims against foreign insurers);Healy v Cosmosair [2005] EWHC 1657 (QB) (catastrophic accident in course of package holiday in Portugal); Bygrave v Thomas Cook [2003] EWCA Civ 1631; Jones v Sunworld [2003] EWHC 591 QC (leading case on scope of package); Edmunds v Simmonds [2001] 1 WLR 1003 (applicable law under PIL(MP)A 1995).
Called Middle Temple 1997. Contributes division on overseas travel claims in Butterworths ‘Personal Injury Litigation Service’, updated March 2014; appointed by Council of the Inns of Court as a volunteer barrister for disciplinary hearings, 2009-13. Publishes in various journals including ‘New Law Journal’. Contributed to APIL’s ‘Guide to Accidents Abroad 2013’ and ‘Oliver and Dingemans: Employers Liability Cases’ (Butterworths, 2003). Conciliator to the Passenger Shipping Association/CLIA UK 2010-2014.
Fluent French, German.
Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks; St Hugh’s College, Oxford (1995 BA Hons French and German, first class); City University (1996 Diploma in Law).