Crown Office Chambers

Barrister whose practice encompasses a wide range of civil common law and commercial work including contractual disputes, professional negligence, property damage, insurance and reinsurance and construction disputes. In addition to the usual array of contractual disputes relating to products, services, insurance and reinsurance, share sale agreements, leasing agreements, franchises, licence and distribution agreements (including some IP and competition law issues) he advises and acts on application for injunctions and applications relating areas within conflicts of law (e.g. jurisdiction and choice of law) and has experience of litigation in the ECJ). In relation to professional negligence he acts in claims involving accountants (including claims by clients and claims by third parties, claims involving fraud, claims involving issues of recoverable loss and limitation periods); engineers; valuers and surveyors (including claims by purchasers and lenders, claims relating to domestic and commercial property, claims concerning defects and valuations advice and claims relating to duties of care and damages), solicitors (including claims by third parties, claims for loss of a chance, SRA codes of conduct issues), barristers (including claims relating to settlements), architects (including defective design and delay claims), insurance brokers (including claims relating to the true meaning and effect of a policy), financial advisers (including claims relating to investments and personal and company schemes). He advises and acts in policy disputes of all types (excluding marine), including professional indemnity, public liability, employers’ liability, material damage (including fire, flood, subsidence and theft claims), business interruption, and motor policies, and, relying in part on a science background, he acts in technical disputes. He is a former private pilot, trustee and school governor.

Called 1990, Gray’s Inn. Arden Scholar.

PNBA, COMBAR, TECBAR, LCLCBA.

Oldswinford School, Stourbridge; Trinity College, Cambridge (1987 BA First Class; 1991 MA); University of Virginia (1988 LLM).

Trustee, school governor.