Areas of specialisation include: planning, environmental and compulsory purchase; commercial law, in particular financial services and fraud; employment law; public and administrative law. Recent cases include: Heaton v Axa Equity & Law [2002] 2 AC 329, Burkett v London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham [2002] 1 WLR 1593, Adlard v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions [2002] 1 WLR 2515, Earthline v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions [2002] 46 EGCS 198, Papmichael v National Westminster Bank [2003] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 341, Constantine v Total Oil [2003] EWHC 428, Singer & Friedlander v Thomas [2003] EWHC 861, Friend v Civil Aviation Authority (no 2) [2001] 4 All ER 385, Desquenne et Giral (UK) Ltd v Richardson [2001] FSR 1.

Called 1991; Inner Temple; admitted to the Bar of New York State 1994; District of Columbia 1999; associate attorney Wiley Rein & Fielding, Washington DC (commercial litigation in Federal and State Courts throughout the United States; filed amicus brief before Supreme Court in City of Boerne, Texas v Flores [1997] 521 US 507) 1996-98.

Literate in French and Hebrew.

King’s College School, Wimbledon; Pembroke College, Cambridge (1990 BA Hons Law; 1994 MA; Pembroke College Foundation Scholar; Ziegler Prize for Law); Inns of Court School of Law (1991); Columbia University School of Law, New York (1993 LLM; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).