Essex Court Chambers

Barrister focusing on public international law. Cases include: R v Mohamed Gul (CPS) – Supreme Court and Court of Appeal Decisions; R v Jones (CPS) – House of Lords decision; Noor Khan v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Treasury Solicitor); Bancoult v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Treasury Solicitor); Alamieyeseigha v CPS (Corker Binning) – High Court decision; Re AY Bank (Clifford Chance) – before High Court, Chancery Division; Ubamaka Edward Wilson v Secretary for Security and Director of Immigration – before Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. Appears before International Court of Justice eg Chad v Libya (Government of Chad); Cameroon v Nigeria (Government of Cameroon); legality of the declaration of Kosovo’s independence (Government of Serbia). Matters handled include, in addition, those relating to human rights; eg cases before European Court of Human Rights: Loizidou v Turkey (Government of Cyprus); Cyprus v Turkey (Government of Cyprus); Chiragov v Armenia (Government of Azerbaijan) and Sargsyan v Azerbaijan (Government of Azerbaijan) and to international commercial arbitration, oil production sharing agreements and to sanctions listing appeals. Publications of note: textbook on international law, books on territory, many articles.

Called 1988; QC 2002.

French.

Combar; British Institute of International and Comparative Law (trustee).

University of Liverpool (LLB); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LLM); University of Keele (PhD).

Reading, music.