Doughty Street Chambers

Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury & Product Liability Actions Against the Police and Public Authorities Inquests and Public Inquiries

Nick specialises in the fields of clinical negligence, legal negligence, personal injury and human rights, in particular, deaths in custody and other actions against the police and the prison service.

Year of Call: 1990; Lincoln’s Inn.

Before coming to the Bar, Nick worked for a firm of solicitors, including spending six months working on the 1987 Birmingham Six Appeal. Since then Nick has represented a number of victims of miscarriages of justice both in the United Kingdom and abroad. He has  advised in relation to applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission. For three years between 2001 and 2004, Nick was one of the attorneys of record for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prominent African American political activist, journalist and writer, who is on death row in Pennsylvania. Nick was admitted pro hac vice to the state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Nick acts on a CFA basis in many of his cases and will provide pro bono advice and representation in an appropriate case.

AvMA, APIL, PIBA, Police Action Lawyers Group, Inquest Lawyers Group.

Wellington College; Jesus College, Cambridge (1987 BA Cantab Law First).