Matthew specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, inquests, actions against the police, and professional discipline.
Matthew has a broad civil liberties and human rights practice, with a particular focus on healthcare issues. His core practice includes personal injury, clinical negligence, inquests, actions against the police, and professional discipline (healthcare). He is passionate about representing claimants and bereaved families and is an experienced trial lawyer.
Year of call: 2018 (2017 - Solicitor, England and Wales)
Matthew is also the Director of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights, and sits on the boards of Stop Uyghur Genocide and the 29 Principles.
Matthew graduated top of his year in law at the University of Nottingham. This included a year at the University of Texas at Austin Law School, where he worked as a Student Criminal Defence Attorney representing death row inmates in federal appeals.
Before coming to the Bar, Matthew was a commercial solicitor and trained at a Magic Circle law firm.
Matthew is Public Access qualified and accepts instructions on this basis.