Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Sports Law

Barrister specialising in Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Sports Law.

Nationwide practice in personal injury and clinical negligence. Personal Injury: predominantly claimant work in the fields of catastrophic injuries and industrial disease. Particular experience in the field of asbestos related claims arising out of occupational and environmental exposure. Instructed in claims against all the major industrial exposers, including Cape plc, Turner & Newall, Powergen/National Power (CEGB), British Steel and ICI. Lectured widely in relation to asbestos related litigation. Notable cases include: Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd – Junior Counsel for two of the three appellants in the House of Lords; ‘Afrika’ group action against Cape plc – claims on behalf of several thousand South African asbestos mine workers. He has recently been involved in a major multi-party action on behalf of over 2000 South African goldminers who have contracted severe lung disease as a result of exposure to silica dust. Catastrophic injury work covers severe spinal, head and fatal injuries arising out of workplace accidents and RTA’s, including high-value CICA applications. Clinical negligence: experience in a variety of fields with a particular emphasis on spinal surgery and birth injuries. Particular interest in sports law. Sits as a chair of the British Equestrian Federation’s anti-doping hearing body. Instructing solicitors include: Irwin Mitchell (Sheffield, Leeds & Birmingham); Stewarts (London); Field Fisher Waterhouse (London); Barratt Goff & Tomlinson (Nottingham); Lamport Bassitt (Southampton); Henmans Freeth LLP (Oxford); Slater & Gordon (Manchester, Liverpool, Halifax and Sheffield).

Bolton School, Lancashire; Trinity College, Oxford (1991MA Hons Jurisprudence); St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge (1992 Diploma International Law).