39 Essex Chambers

Barrister specialising in n Administrative & Public Law, Civil Liberties & Human Rights, Healthcare, Commercial Law, Regulatory & Disciplinary, Tax, Media Law, and Costs & Litigation Funding. He is known for creatively pushing the boundaries of the law, and has appeared in a number of important cases in all of these fields up to the Supreme Court. He is often brought in for high profile cases outside his primary fields such as the divorce of the Ruler of Dubai. Cases include: he Supreme Court cases of Tigere (student loans and the right to education), Aintree v James (definition of "futile" medical treatment), NHS v Y (whether court application needed to withdraw CANH if family agrees); and JB v A Local Authority (whether capacity to engage in sexual relations requires an understanding that the other person must consent throughout). He also acted in the Skripal case (whether blood samples could be taken for the OPCW); the Interchange Fee Litigation (whether parties had settled after expiry of the relevant period); advice during the VW and Mercedes Emissions litigation; Smith v Lancashire (declaration of incompatibility against the Fatal Accidents Act leading to a change in the legislation in  causing the right to bereavement damages to be extended to cohabitees of 2 years); Ashya King (whether proton radiotherapy should be performed in Czech Republic); Tafida Raqeeb (whether breach of TFEU article 56 not to permit travel to Italy for medical treatment); and the reinterpretation of the Mitchell principles concerning relief against sanction in Denton v White.

Called 1998, Middle Temple; formerly Junior Counsel to the Crown (C, B and A Panels); formerly tutor in Criminal, Tort, and Administrative Law at various colleges in Oxford and Cambridge; medically-qualified (and worked as a doctor); previously Times Lawyer of the Week;  formerly Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Bar Association and of Court of Protection Bar Association; member of Independent Review of Administrative Law; Bencher, Middle Temple; Deputy High Court Judge (Kings’s Bench) .

French, Hindi.

ALBA, COMBAR, Chancery Bar Association, JUSTICE (Council Member), ARDL

Oundle School; Clare College, Cambridge (1992 BA; 1996 MA); New College, Oxford (1993 BCL; 1996 BM BCh).