Civil and commercial litigation, personal injury, clinical negligence, product liability, professional negligence, construction, insurance/reinsurance.

Barrister specialising in personal injury, industrial disease, clinical negligence, product liability, professional negligence and commercial litigation. Extensive experience of catastrophic and complex injuries, and high-value personal injury and fatal accident claims including issues of private top-up of state-funded care, education and medical treatment, periodical payments and indexation, and the interaction between organic brain injury and psychological injury. Commercial experience includes numerous telecoms regulation cases, product liability cases arising from defective industrial machinery and the litigation arising from the Buncefield oil storage depot explosion.

Called 1998 Inner Temple; Pegasus Scholar 2000 at Chadbourne & Parke, product liability department, New York. Editor: Emden’s ‘Construction Law’.

Conversational French.

London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association.

Dulwich College, London; Balliol College, Oxford (1994 BA Hons in Jurisprudence with a double first).

Fitness, music.