Adam Robb is a barrister specialising in construction law (including professional negligence), commercial law and insurance and re-insurance law. He is often instructed in technically, legally and factually complex infrastructure and contractual disputes. Adam’s practice includes arbitration (international and domestic), litigation, and adjudication. His recent cases include acting on behalf of a joint venture in Ireland in an arbitration concerning a major and politically sensitive road project, acting on behalf of designers in respect of a multi-million pound dispute arising out of a rail project, acting on behalf of a contractor in respect of a water treatment project in the Middle East, acting on behalf of a contractor in relation to a major Middle East port project, and representing a major firm of construction professionals in respect of a multi-million pound professional negligence claim.
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Public law and human rights, regulatory law, and environmental and planning.
Barrister specialising in complex commercial contract work. Main areas of expertise lie within the construction/engineering and commercial fields and include also information technology, rail, energy, project finance, insurance, shipping, international trade and professional negligence cases. Much of his work involves international arbitration and dispute resolution with a particular focus on China and the Far East. He acts as Counsel and also as Arbitrator in many different jurisdictions and under all the main international institutional rules.
Barrister specialising in mental capacity and mental health.
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.
Andrew has a broad public law and human rights practice with a particular focus on national security, prisons, and immigration. He has experience of acting in politically sensitive public inquiries and inquests raising human rights issues. Andrew is regularly instructed to advise on matters involving data protection, freedom of information and freedom of expression. Andrew was appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel in 2018. He acts for both claimants and public authorities.
Areas of practice include: public and administrative, human rights, local government, commercial and employment. Notable recent cases include R(KM) v Cambridgeshire [2011] UKSC 145. Benjamin makes regular appearances in the High Court, usually on urgent judicial review applications, and at various Tribunals, the County Court and the Magistrates’ Court.
Barrister specialising in clinical negligence, personal injury and professional negligence.
Barrister whose work includes: appearances at a substantial number and variety of public inquiries including major planning, compulsory purchase and highways inquiries, parliamentary committees and proceedings before a District/Appointed Auditors representing a wide range of parties and interests including property developers, major retailers, statutory authorities, development corporations, county and district planning authorities and amenity groups; appearances in a substantial number and variety of High Court cases in the field of planning, environmental and administrative law; major inquiries include : Stansted/T4; T5; London Heliport; numerous regional and local airport aviation and other proposals; Manchester sub-regional shopping; many superstore, retail warehousing and other retail schemes including recent proposals in Northern Ireland; Westminster Designated Sales Auditor’s hearing; Cambridge new settlements; London Bridge City major office development on Thames frontage near Tower Bridge; new opera house at Tower Bridge; M25 line and compulsory purchase orders; M25; M20; M3 and M40 MSA’s; Royal Docks; Bristol Temple Meads and Trafford Park Village CPO; numerous town centre development CPOS; numerous subject plan, local plan and UDP inquiries representing the plan-making authority or objectors or supporters; parties represented include : Rolls-Royce, BP, Shell, Manchester Ship Canal Co/Peel Investments, Royal Opera House, London Bridge City, UK Waste, Safeway, Sainsbury, Boots, Costco UK, MEPC, Royal Insurance, BZW/Barclay’s Bank, Cowie Group, London Transport, Civil Aviation Authority, LDDC, Trafford Park Development Corporation, North West Water, Department of Transport, Local Government Commissioner, Snowdonia National Park Authority, many county and disctrict authorities and London boroughs; leading High Court cases include: Olivers/Thrasyvoulou in House of Lords establishing the application of the principal issue estoppel in planning matters, Bolton v Secretary of State in House of Lords representing MSCC and establishing the nature of the requirement to give reasons in planning decisions and the right of MSCC to develop the Trafford Centre after many years of public inquiry and litigation process (it also set out the principle upon which more than one set of costs may be awarded in statutory challenge/judicial review proceedings), De Rothschild v S of S and Royal Insurance v S of S establising guiding principles for decision makers and materiality of viability in CPO cases.
Camilla specialises in personal injury and clinical negligence. She has acted both alone and as junior in high value claims involving the most serious injuries including cerebral palsy, brain injury, tetraplegia and amputation as well as cases involving chronic pain syndrome and complex regional pain disorder. Her clinical negligence practice has included numerous claims for missed diagnosis and surgical error. She is currently instructed as junior counsel on behalf of the NHSLA in the metal on metal hips litigation and is experienced in claims involving product liability.
General common law, especially personal injury. Costs, commercial and insurance work. Environmental, planning and some local government work.
Barrister specialising in international arbitration, commercial, construction, technology and telecommunications, professional negligence.
Barrister with an extensive practice in Planning & Infrastructure Law, Environmental & Energy Law, Public and Local Government Law.
Barrister specialising in personal injury (either side), clinical negligence (either side) and health and safety.
Barrister specialising in public international law, arbitration, administrative and public law, international criminal law, immigration and asylum, EU law and human rights. Regularly appears before courts and tribunals in England and Wales. At international level, has appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), European Court of Human Rights, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Has acted as counsel assisting annulment committees in ICSID international investment treaty arbitrations. Fee paid judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) since 2009. Treasury C panel 2010; treasury B panel 2013; treasury public international law B panel 2014. Counsel in a number of prominent cases before the High Court of Australia (the highest Australian court) and other Australian courts involving issues of constitutional law, administrative law and public international law.
Barrister specialising in clinical negligence (claimant); professional negligence; personal injury (claimant and defendant).
Barrister dealing with environmental, public law, personal injury, employment and planning matters, with a particular interest in EU law issues arising in these fields.
Specialisation in Employment, Public and Defamation, Privacy and Information law. Current / recent work includes: Employment: Irwell Insurance Company Ltd v Watson & Ors, CA (jurisdiction of ET under Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010), PGA European Tour v Kelly, EAT (re-engagement order exceeding £450k), London Underground Ltd v Amissah & Ors, CA (group action under Agency Worker Regulations), Agarwal v Cardiff University, CA (jurisdiction of ET to determine contractual terms) and Thompson v Ark Schools, EAT (pregnancy / maternity discrimination time limits). Public: Alliance of Turkish Businesspeople v SSHD, CA (whether immigration guidance founded substantive legitimate expectation), Karagul v SSHD (changes to immigration rules re ECAA applicants did not breach principle of effectiveness) and Kotuk v ECO, Warsaw, CA (“standstill clause” in Ankara Agreement did not apply to right of establishment). Defamation, Privacy and Information law: Riley v Sivier (for defendant journalist), RPB v HMRC (transfer of misuse of private information and DPA claim to County Court), Dhir v Saddler (serious harm in context of slander) and Qureshi v IC & Home Office (FOIA appeal concerning s.24 national security exemption).
Counsel in international commercial arbitrations, also sits as an arbitrator. Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London Centre for Commercial Law Studies.
Also an associate member of ST JOHN’S CHAMBERS, Bristol. Barrister specialising in personal injury, insurance litigation, common law and health and safety law.
Competition law (damages claims before the CAT and the High Court; investigations); energy law including commercial and regulatory aspects; public law (judicial review) primarily. Recent cases (since 2013) include: National Grid v ABB, Lumsden v the Legal Services Board; Homesun and Friends of the Earth v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; Capital Meters v National Grid (CAT). Other advisory work includes both for and against regulators, including the Competition Commission, Ofgem and Ofwat, for commercial disputes including for Carillion, RWE nPower and the Home Builders Association. Has been engaged in two investigations by the OFT, and four by other concurrent regulators in the past two years.
Barrister specialising in commercial litigation: Svenska Bank v Sun Alliance (commercial mortgage indemnity); Capital Counties v Planned Maintenance; Ablitt v Norwich Union; Lancashire County Council v Municipal Mutual: commercial litigation: Sun Valley v Partspeed; Midland Expressway: personal injury (mainly defendant): clinical negligence: Morriss v Lewisham Health Authority; Kinnear v Falcon Films; sports law: public inquiries: Bradford; Hillsborough; Guildford Four; Piper Alpha; Bloody Sunday: sports law including disciplinary; mediation and arbitration.
Barrister specialising in public and administrative law, especially public inquiries, healthcare regulation, mental health and community care, immigration and freedom of information / data protection. Clients include central and local government bodies, NHS and regulatory bodies (e.g. the Professional Standards Authority, the General Medical Council, General Dental Council), as well as private clients. Appointed Queen’s Counsel in April 2011. Formerly a member of the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel (Public Law) 2003-2011. Judge of the Mental Health Tribunal. Inquiries: Represented the former Healthcare Commission throughout the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust Public Inquiry. Previously; first junior counsel to the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry (major healthcare inquiry); counsel for the House of Commons’ authorities, the Hutton Inquiry; counsel to the Ayling and Kerr/Haslam Inquiries (independent private inquiries investigating service failures in the NHS); advisory work in numerous other inquiries. Healthcare: Recently represented Ashworth Hospital in the 8-day public hearing of Ian Brady’s application to the Mental Health Tribunal for transfer back from hospital to prison. Numerous healthcare cases include R(Sailesh Patel) v GMC [2013] (legitimate expectations); R(Tosar) v Milton Keynes PCT [2012] EWHC 2334 (interpretation of the word ‘neighbourhood’ in the Pharmaceutical Services Regulations); British Pregnancy Advisory Service v Secretary of State for Health [2011] EWHC 235 (proper interpretation of the Abortion Act 1967). Appears in tribunals such as the Family Health Services Appeal Unit (FHSAU) as well as the High Court and Court of Appeal. Freedom of Information and Data Protection: Counsel for the House of Commons authority throughout the three ‘MPS expenses’ cases. Currently representing the council in East Sussex Council v ICO and others, a case regarding the proper calculation of charges under the Environmental information Regulations 2004 and which has been referred to the European Court of Justice by the Information Rights Tribunal.
Personal injury and Fraud, Clinical negligence, Product liability and Property damage.
Barrister practising in professional negligence, insurance, personal injury, fire and flood damage etc.
In recent years, the principal focus of Greg Treverton-Jones QC’s practice has been regulatory and disciplinary issues concerning solicitors and other professionals. He is co-author (with Andrew Hopper QC) of The Solicitors’ Handbook, the 6th edition, of which will be published during 2014. He has been in many of the leading cases involving solicitors, e.g. Sritharan v The Law Society [2005] 1 WLR 2708 and Sheikh v The Law Society [2006] EWCA 1577 (interventions); Bultitude v The Law Society [2004] EWCA Civ 1853 (dishonesty); and numerous statutory appeals, e.g. Tinkler [2012] EWHC 3645 (Admin), Andersons and others [2013] EWHC 4021 (Admin). He advises and represents solicitors in respect of all of the most pressing issues of the day. He also represents other legal professionals (barristers and legal executives) and non-legal professionals (surveyors; teachers; architects) and some sports tribunal work. He also has extensive experience of Public Inquiries (North Wales Child Abuse: Southall rail crash and Paddington rail crash); corruption; and costs (particularly wasted costs applications).
Barrister dealing with personal injury (both sides), property damage; administrative and public law – constitutional law (Belize Bark Ltd v AG of Belize [2011] UKPC 36); immigration (R (Bhagat) v SSHD); Court of Protection, local authority work (R (Earl) v Winchester City Council [2014] EWHC 195), Mutua v FCO [2012] EWHC 2678; commercial and construction including commercial arbitration; regulatory, including solicitors’ regulation; costs; discrimination – Cherfi v G4S Securicor [2012] Eq LR 825 successful claim for discrimination on the grounds of religion.
Barrister dealing with all areas of public law, education, planning, employment and local government law.
Barrister specialising in personal injury, general insurance and contractual disputes.
Areas of practice include: public and administrative; planning and environment; commercial; financial services; local government; civil liberties and human rights; privacy and freedom of information. Notable recent cases include: Orabator v HMP Holloway [2010] EWHC 58 (repatriation of foreign prisoners); R (Smith) v Land Registry [2010] EWCA Civ 2000 (adverse possession of highways); R (U) v SIAC [2010] EWHC 813 (bail in SIAC); R (KB) v Secretary of State for Justice [2010] EWHC 15 (prisons and YOI); Guildford BC v Sec of State for Communities [2009] EWHC 3531 (greenbelt extensions); MetroConstruction v LB Barnet [2009] EWHC 2956 (conservation area designations); Brown v Carlisle City Council [2009] EWHC 2519 (EIA); S & Marper v UK [2008] ECHR 1581, ECtHR (retention of fingerprints and DNA);Capel Parish Council v Surrey County Council [2009] EWHC 350 (EU Waste Directive and waste incinerator); Home Secretary v AR [2008] EWHC 3164 (Prevention of Terrorism Act Control Order); WK v Home Secretary and A v Croydon [2009] EWHC (age assessments); Heffernan v Rent Service [2008] UKHL 58, [2008] 1 WLR 1702 (locality for housing benefit); South Cambridgeshire v First Secretary of State [2008] EWCA Civ 1010 (greenbelt and travellers); Jeffery v First Secretary of State [2007] EWCA Civ 584 (discontinuance orders); West Midlands International Airportv Secretary of State for Communities and LocalGovernment [2008] EWHC 2309 (airport expansion); Heather Moor & Edgecomb v Financial Ombudsman Service [2008] EWCA Civ 642 (ombudsmanand human rights); Burney v Burns Anderson [2007] 4 All ER 246 (ombudsman and pensions); R v London Borough of Bromley ex p Barker [2007] 1 AC 470, HL & ECJ (environmental impact assessments); R(IFG) v Financial Ombudsman Service [2005] EWHC 1153 (powers of ombudsman); R(X) v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police [2004] EWCA Civ 1068 (criminal record disclosure); A v West Yorkshire Police [2004] UKHL 21, [2004] 2 WLR 1209; Goodwin v UK [2002] 35 EHRR 18 (rights of transsexuals and Article 14); R (Adriano) v Surrey County Council [2003] Env LR 24 (incinerator permission); Evans v First Secretary of State [2004] Env LR 1523 (striking out of s288 proceedings); Associated Newspapers, News International, Guardian, Telegraph and BBC v Home Secretary, AD and LL (anonymity in control orders) [2005] EWHC Admin.
Jenni Richards QC has an extensive public law practice acting for individuals, public bodies and public interest groups in all areas affected by public law. She is recognised as being ‘as brilliant on her feet as she is on paper’ (Chambers and partners). Her expertise includes local and central government, financial services, human rights, healthcare, community care and mental health, education, prison law and immigration/asylum. She is frequently asked to advise local authorities, health bodies and regulatory bodies on a wide range of issues relating to their powers and duties, consultation processes and budgetary decision-making. Jenni acted for the claimants in the leading human rights cases of Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Rabone v Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust. Jenni’s regulatory and disciplinary work covers a wide range of areas, with particular emphasis on financial services regulation, the regulation of health care professionals , the regulation of fertility services by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the regulation of hospitals and care homes. She acts for regulators and for individual professionals facing fitness to practise or disciplinary allegations. Jenni has extensive experience in difficult and sensitive inquests and inquiries in which there is a public component such as the responsibility of the state in relation to the cause of death. She has been involved in numerous leading cases concerning the investigative and substantive obligations under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Jenni is often instructed in the most complex or novel cases under the Mental Capacity Act involving difficult decisions relating to capacity, medical treatment and deprivation of liberty. Jenni is an experienced, trained mediator. Cases include: Rabone v Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust [2012] UKSC 2; Wirral BC v Salisbury Independent Living [2012] EWCA Civ 84; Levinge v Health Professions Council [2012] EWHC 135 (Admin); Cheshire West and Chester Council v P [2011] EWCA Civ 1257; R (Canada Inc) v Financial Services Authority [2011] EWHC 2766 (Admin); R (AP) V HM Coroner for Worcestershire [2011] EWHC 1453 (Admin); AH v Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & others [2011] EWHC (CoP); R (L) v Leeds City Council [2010] EWHC 3324 (Admin); R (Mwanza) v Greenwich London Borough Council [2010] EWHC 1462 (Admin); R (Lewis) v HM Coroner for the Mid & North Division of Shropshire & Secretary of State for Justice [2010] 1 WLR 1836; R (KS) v Croydon LBC [2010] EWHC 3391 (Admin); R (Manchester CC) v St Helens BC [2009] EWCA Civ 1348; Muscat v Health Professions Council [2009] EWCA Civ 1090; R (F) v Wirral BC [2009] EWHC 1626 (Admin); R (Calvert) v HM Coroner [2009] EWHC 661 (Admin); St Helens Borough Council v Manchester Primary Care Trust & anor [2008] EWCA Civ 931; Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & MIND [2009]1 AC 681; HK (Turkey) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWCA Civ 1357; AI v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWCA Civ 386; JE v DE, Surrey County Council and EW [2006] EWHC 3459 (Fam); Cavanagh, Bhatt & Redmond v Health Service Commissioner [2005] EWCA Civ 1578; ID & others v Home Office [2006] 1 WLR 1003; A Local Authority v Z (2005) 1 WLR 959; Uttley v Secretary of State for the Home Department (HL) [2004] 1 WLR 2278; R (A, B, X & Y) v East Sussex County Council and Disability Rights Commission [2003] LGR 529; R (Stennett) v Manchester City Council (HL); [2002] 3 WLR 584, ; R (Coughlan) v North and East Devon Health Authority (CA) [2000] 2 WLR 622.
Barrister specialising in general commercial, construction and insurance and financial services.
Construction ie engineering, energy and natural resources, joint ventures, consortia co-operation, commercial arbitration, commercial shipping, commodity and international arbitration.
Specialisms include: planning and environmental law, public law, judicial review, compulsory purchase and compensation, aviation and licensing. High Court litigation and public inquiries; CPOs and regeneration; cases of interest: Premier division Football Stadium developments, Birmingham International Airport expansion, Heathrow third runway, Coventry Airport, Farnborough TAG Airport expansion, Gatwick Airport, Bushell v Newcastle Living Justices [2006] HL, Luton TWA Guided Busway, R (Medway Council) v Sec of State for Transport, R (Mount Cook) v Westminster City Council, R (Jones) v Mansfield BC, R (Governors of Langley Park School) v Bromley LBC, Llanishen Reservoir development and JRs Cardiff, Ashford expansion, Telford opencast, waste and retail developments, Newcastle and Sunderland housing, Albert Court Residents v Westminster County Council (Albert Hall licensing).
Barrister specialising in town and country planning, environmental, local government, highways law and parliamentary matters; CEDR-accredited mediator. Design Council / CABE Built Environment Expert (2012). Member of DCLG s106 mediator panel (2013).
John joined Thirty Nine Essex Street in 2006. His practice focuses primarily on construction and commercial disputes. He started his career at the bar with pupillage at 5 Bell Yard and Keating Chambers before moving to the litigation department at Herbert Smith and specialist construction firm Fenwick Elliott. John is dual-qualified as a barrister and solicitor and has returned to the Bar in 2006 where his practice has flourished both domestically and internationally. Due to his prior experience as a solicitor his advice is cost-effective and focused on results for his clients. He was advocate in a $1bn ICC international arbitration arising out of disputes concerning the construction of an oil pipeline in the Middle East and has advised in relation to the resolution of a dispute concerning the construction of a hotel in the UAE. He has considerable experience of construction and related professional negligence cases, including: (1) Tradebe Solvent Recycling Ltd (formerly Solvent Resource Management Ltd) v Coussens of Bexhill Ltd [2013] EWHC 3786 (QB), a claim for remedial costs arising out of the collapse of a crane at a refinery; (2) Berry Piling Systems v Sheer Projects [2012] EWHC 241 (TCC) 141 CON LR 225, successfully enforcing an adjudicator’s decision in the face of defence seeking to resist enforcement on natural justice grounds and the alleged insolvency of the claimant; (3) Aldersgate Estates Ltd v Ham Construction Ltd [2013] EWHC 104 (TCC) (31 January 2013), acting in a professional negligence action, in which the TCC has given the leading case on the appropriateness of ordering hearing of preliminary issues.
Jonathan has an established litigation, arbitration and advisory practice in commercial law. His practice includes domestic litigation, international work and arbitrations under the auspices of major institutions including ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIFC and DIAC. His sector experience includes energy and natural resources, insurance and reinsurance, construction, PFI, sale of goods and services, product distribution and agency, joint ventures, information law, IT contracts, outsourcing, aviation, commodities, film & media and professional sport. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); IBA; ICC (UK); COMBAR; PNBA; TECBAR; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Panel of Commercial Arbitrators; AIAC Panel of Arbitrators; Sport Resolutions UK Panel of Arbitrators (legal member); TECBAR Panel of Arbitrators; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Panel of Mediators; Sport Resolutions UK Panel of Mediators; TECBAR Panel of Mediators; Football League Disciplinary Committee Panel of Chairmen.
Barrister specialising in personal injury, general common law, costs, insurance, professional negligence.
Construction; professional negligence, domestic and international arbitration and ADR. Cases have included most standard forms of building and engineering contracts. Claims include interim and final account disputes, delay, loss and expense claims, defect claims, negligent design and workmanship issues. Significant cases include: Lanes Group plc adjudication and related leaked clauses 2011; ad hoc appointment as arbitrator in a dispute over a major infrastructure project in Botswana; ICC arbitration involving major infrastructure project in Trinidad & Tobago (2007-10); acting for The British Legion in proceedings concerning a substantial care home development in Norfolk (2009); acting for the Co-op in claims against consulting engineers for professional negligence (2009); Charles Church v Stuart Foundations (2007) [professional negligence]; Laurence Banks and Rachel Banks v DEFRA, [2004] EWHC 416 [administrative/public law & costs], DEFRA had failed to observe the requirements of procedural fairness in deciding to maintain a Movement Restriction Notice imposed on B’s herd of cattle – claimants’ application for indemnity costs against DEFRA succeeded; Trevor Wicketts & Patricia Sterndale v Brine Builders Ltd and HC Siederer, [2002] CILL 1805, application to remove arbitrator under section 24(1)(d) of the Arbitration Act 1996; Lindner Ceilings Floors Partitions plc v How Engineering Services Limited: How Engineering Services Limited v Lindner Ceilings Floors Partitions plc [2001] BLR 90 [appeal from arbitrators award on costs given in a construction arbitration], considered (a) evaluation of awards to offers on a ‘like for like’ basis and (b) the effect of a sealed offer which did not also include an offer to pay the costs of the offeree; Serck Controls Limited v Drake and Scull Engineerinq Limited [2001] QBD (TCC) (Judge Hicks QC) 12/5/2000, references: LTL 19/5/2000 : 73 Con LR 100: (2000) CILL 1643, claim for quantum meruit arising out of construction of research and development facility for BNF.
Barrister specialising in commercial, construction, public law and human rights.
Public law, asylum and immigration, human rights, local government. Cases include: Januzi v SSHD (HL) [2006] 2 WLR 397; Westminster City Council v Morris (CA) [2006] 1 WLR 505; GH (Iraq) v SSHD (CA) [2006] Imm AR 19; Gezer v SSHD [2005] HRLR7; R (Ullah) v SSHD (HL) [2006] 2 AC 323.
Specialises in enquiries, personal injury and professional negligence work. Represents both claimants and defendants. Amongst his recent cases are Leta Almeda v Her Majesty’s Attorney General for Gibraltar, Privy Council, 24/11/2004 (challenge to State immunity claimed by the Government of Gibraltar); Pilar Aida Rojas v Brian Berllaque and Her Majesty’s Attorney General for Gibraltar, Privy Council, 10/11/2003 (whether all male juries in Gibraltar were constitutional). He has substantial experience of group actions: St George’s School, Liverpool, 2004-05, Springhill School Group Litigation, 2004 and Gower Chemicals 2002-03. Has appeared in many catastrophic injury cases: P Smith v I Childs, 2004, paraplegia £4.5m settlement; Ejvet v Aid Pallet (2002), 11/3/2002, Cooke J, RCJ (additional agreed award for broker’s fees, PGO and receiver costs). Acted in many cerebral palsy and gynaecological negligence claims: Howard v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (2006) High Court, London, cerebral palsy; Corry v D & B Construction Ltd (2008) High Court, Belfast; O’B v Residential Institutions Redress Board (2009) High Court, Dublin [2009] IEHC 284; Ellie Challis v Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals Trust, 2008/09 High Court, London (medical negligence, menlingococcal septicaemia); Adam Jones v BBC and others (2007) High Court, employer’s liability, occupier’s liability; Raymond Shanks v Swan Hunter Group PLC (2007) EWHC B4, mesothelioma claim; Jordan Fitton v Bury Primary Care Trust & others, judicial review, hospital closures, Administrative Court; Kampichler v Moore and Blatch, High Court Winchester, 18/4/02, solicitor’s negligence; Christine Perry v Post Office High Court, London, 2001 (whether trauma can cause MS); Cummings v Powney, 2000: Brain injury; appropriate deduction for non-use of seat belt; Dalton v Wright Hassall (a firm of solicitors); High Court, London, 2000 (whether solicitor’s negligence can give rise to a claim for psychiatric damage). Represented the Local Authority in Firth v Geo. Ackroyd Ltd and another (2000) Lloyds LR (medical) 312 (the recoverability of the cost of care provided by the local Authority acting under a statutory duty). Review of operation of section 19 of Companies Act 1990 (as amended) for Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Dublin) 2005-07.
Barrister with a broad administrative and public law practice and particular expertise in the areas of community care, mental capacity, mental health, regulation and education law. In these fields Michelle is instructed by a range of firms, public bodies, local authorities and regulators to undertake advocacy as well as advisory matters. Acts in judicial reviews including in relating to community care entitlements for adults and children. Particular experience in the Court of Protection, where she has acted in cases concerning deprivation of liberty, forced marriage, involuntary sedation and ‘best interests’ disputes concerning residence, care and contact. Recommended in Chambers and Partners in the areas of Court of Protection and education law (2013 and 2014); described as being ‘super-efficient and [able to] get straight to the crux of the matter’ and ‘a formidable presence in the Court of Protection’. Recommended in the field of education law in Legal 500 (2011-14), with expertise in complex special educational needs cases as well as university discipline, school admissions and exclusions, and all aspects of discrimination law. Regulatory practice includes providing advice to financial regulators, acting in disputes with regulators in the British Virgin Islands and acting in long-running fraud and money laundering proceedings that led one of the largest confiscation orders ever made in a common law jurisdiction.
Barrister dealing with a wide range of public law, including community care, Court of Protection, housing and homelessness, human rights, local government and mental health, employment law, and general commercial and common law.
Barrister specialising in environmental, energy and planning law, administrative and public law, local government law, financial services law, and regulatory and disciplinary law.
Joint head of Chambers. Barrister specialising in professional negligence (including clinical negligence); personal injury and disease cases (including sport), insurance (policy construction and coverage disputes, non-disclosure and misrepresentations), product liability, jurisdiction, contract and commercial. Cases include: Pike v IHCL [2013] the claims arising out of the terrorist bombing of the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai; Stylianou v Toyoshima [2013] jurisdiction issues arising out of an accident in Australia; The Estate of Sir James Wilson Saville [2014] claims arising out of the sexual abuse of children by Jimmy Saville; Smolden v Nolan [1997] PIQR 133 (first case brought in which a referee is sued for failing to control the game resulting in injury to a player); McGregor v Prudential [1988] Lloyds LR (insurance fraud); O’Neil v Fashanu (player-on-player injury); North East, North West and Isle of Wight Shipyards litigation (multi-party asbestos related litigation); Watson v British Boxing Board of Control [2000] CA (liability of sports regulatory body); Gnitrow v Cope Plc [2000] CA (disclosability of confidential agreement); Re: ‘The Supertram Litigation’ [2003] EWCA Civ 1 (liability of highway authorities and tram operators – professional negligence of project manager); A v National Blood Authority (the Hepatitis C litigation); Skandia 4 Group Action – ergonomics of lorry cabs; Allport v Wilbrahim [2003] (successfully defended a claim by a rugby player against a referee in which the claimant alleged that catastrophic injuries sustained in a scrummage were the fault of the referee); Re Bondcare [2003] (a £20m claim alleging negligence against a project manager/quantity surveyor in relation to a hotel development); Miller & Gray v Shoreline [2003] (a claim alleging negligence of project manager and engineer in relation to a coastal protection scheme); ICF v Claims Advance (a claim involving thousands of cases in which insurance coverage issues arise); Whalley v Stoke DC [2006] CA (landmark case on withdrawal of pre-action admissions); the Northwick Park drug trial claims; Pollard v Tesco Stores [2006] EWCA Civ 393 (product liability – interaction of CPA 1987 and British Standards); Ash v Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (clinical negligence claim by well-known actress); Mughweni v Guys and St Thomas Hospital (paediatric cardiac surgery). The toxic sofa litigation: the claims arising out of the terrorist bombing of the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai. Colchester Borough Council v Turner + Townsend (representing project managers in dispute about construction of iconic visual arts centre).
Court of Protection, particularly deprivation of liberty issues. G v E and others [2010] EWHC 621, [2010] EWCA Civ 822; A County Council v MB [2010] EWHC 2508; Cheshire West and Chester Council v P [2011] EWCA Civ 1257; FP v GM [2011] 2 FLR 1375; A Local Authority v SY [2013] EWHC 3485.
Barrister specialising in administrative and public law, environmental law, human rights, regulation and tax, including VAT and C&E. Recent cases include: R v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ex p Greenpeace [1999] Env LR, (environmental); Environment Agency v Empress Cars Limited [1999] 2 AC 22 (environment); Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust, ex parte L [1999] 1 AC 458 (human rights); Svenska International Plc v Customs and Excise [1999] 1 WLR 769 (VAT); R v Ashworth Hospital ex p Ian Brady [2000] Lloyd’s Rep Med 355 (human rights); R v Department of Health, ex parte Source Informatics [2000] 2 WLR 940 (regulation and human rights); R v North and East Devon Health Authority, ex parte Coughlan [2000] 2 WLR 622 (administrative and public law); R v The National Lottery Commission ex p Camelot plc [2001] EMLR 43 (administrative and public law); Wilson v South Kesteven DC [2001] 1 WLR 387 (administrative and public law); R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex p Javed [2001] 3 WLR 323 (administrative and public law); R (Holub) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2001] 1 WLR 1359 (administrative and public law); R v Mental Health Act Commission, ex parte Wilkinson [2001] 419 CA (human rights); R v NASS, ex parte Westminster City Council [2002] 1 WLR 2956 (administrative and public law); Ashworth Hospital Authority v Mirror Group Ltd [2001] 1 WLR 2033 (administrative and public law); R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Mullen [2004] UKHL 18 (human rights, and administrative and public law); Centralan Property Ltd v Customs and Excise [2002] STC 290 (VAT); R v Secretary of State for the Environment and Transport and the Regions ex p Edison First Power Limited [2001] 16 EG 101 (HL – administrative and public law); Trinity Mirror Group plc v Commissioners for Customs and Excise [2003] STC 518; Naim Ahmed [2002] 2 All ER 440 (administrative and public law); Humber Sea Terminal Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport (QBD) [2005] EWHC 1289 (environment); Ward v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis & ors (HL) [2006] 1 AC 23 (administrative and public law); R (Colonel Munjaz) v Ashworth Hospital and Secretary of State [2006] 2 AC 148 (human rights); R (Singapore Medical Council) v General Medical Council and Simon Shorvon (QBD) [2006] EWHC 3277 (administrative and public law); Shin Wing v Director of Environment, Hong Kong [2006] HC Court of Final Appeal (environment; R Crown Prosecution Service) v Bow Street Magistrates’ Court and Samuel James and five ors (DC) [2007] 1 WLR 291 (administrative and public law); R (Edwards) v Environment Agency and others (CA) [2006] EWCA Civ 877 (environment): R [National Grid Gas plc) v Environment Agency (QBD) [2006] 1 WLR 3041 (administrative and public law, environment); R (Maile and Hardy) v Pembrokeshire County Council (QBD) [2005] EWHC 1872 (environment); Revenue & Customs v Zurich Insurance Co (ChD) [2006] EWHC 593 (VAT); R (Greenpeace) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2007] EWHC Admin 15.2.2007 (administrative and public law/environment).
Barrister specialising in personal injury (defendant and claimant), employment law, construction law, administrative and public law and professional negligence.
Commercial, construction, common, regulatory and disciplinary, and administration and public.
Arbitration, banking, commercial law, construction, contract, insolvency, insurance, landlord and tenant, mining law, professional negligence.
Paul was called to the Bar (1985), building up a substantial practice in Public, Environmental and Planning Law before becoming an MP (1997-2005), during which time he served on the Home Affairs Select Committee, the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform. Since returning to the Bar in May 2005, Paul rapidly re-built his practice and was elevated to silk within six years. Paul acts for developers, Local Authorities and private clients, including local campaign groups. Paul’s recent cases include resisting major infrastructure proposals – including the expansion of Stansted, the first promoted eco-village, Strategic Rail Freight Interchanges; promoting large-scale development – including significant housing developments across the country; leading planning, local government and human rights cases – including ; multi-million pound compensation claims – including one worth £90m for the Welsh Ministers; and the first judicial review in respect of Neighbourhood Planning and the Localism Act 2011. Paul is regularly recommended in the Legal Directories and was named as the Times Lawyer of the week, following on from the successful challenge against a decision to redevelop the house in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Peter Village QC continues to dominate high-profile cases in planning and environmental law and has a long history of advising and appearing in environmental law cases, particularly concerning waterways, airports and waste planning. He has been involved in one of the highest profile planning cases in recent years, R (Cala Homes) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2010] 2866 (admin) (Nos 1 2 and 3), successfully challenging the coalition government’s abolition of regional strategies a part of its reforming agenda under the localism bill and thereafter acting on the planning inquiry and challenge to the S/S’s decision in respect of Barton Farm Winchester, which culminated in the eventual grant of planning permission for 2000 homes in September 2012. He was leading counsel for the Environment Agency in the leading case of Rowland v Environment Agency [2003] EWCA Civ 1885, which is the most modern consideration of the law relating to public rights of navigation, where it successfully defeated a claim to a stretch of the River Thames as private waters. In 2009 Peter acted for the successful claimants in Capel Parish Council v Surrey County Council, where he successfully quashed the Surrey Waste Plan (Core Strategy) in relation to its proposals for a new waste incinerator at Capel. In related proceedings he also successfully quashed the planning permission for that proposal: Capel Parish Council v Surrey County Council [2009] EWHC 350 (Admin). This was the second successful challenge to the grant of planning permission from an alleged energy from waste incinerator on the former brickworks site outside Capel, the previous challenge being in 2002. He continues to advise both residents groups and waste operators in relation to various forthcoming proposals up and down the country. His experience in aviation noise and the correct application of PPG 24 was invaluable in the recent case for Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon at North East Sector Crawley and the proposal for nearly 2,000 new dwellings adjacent to Gatwick Airport. After long-running litigation spanning ten years, the Secretary of State granted planning permission following two inquiries. Peter Village QC appeared for Lydd Airport where issues of ecology and the Habitats Directive dominated the six month inquiry. A decision is awaited. He has particular expertise with regard to the practical application of the Habitats Directive, having acted for Taylor Wimpey in respect of It’s proposals for 1,130 dwellings in Bracknell. The case involved careful analysis and application of the Habitats Directive and SANGS (Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space). Peter also successfully acted in the major High Court odour nuisance trial relating to his client’s organic composting operations (Hinton Organics) near Bath: Morgan & Baker v Hinton Organics defeating the Claimants’ claim. The case is brought by two local residents and may have important ramifications for the future of such operations.
Peter specialises in international commercial arbitration and litigation and is widely recognised as one of the leading arbitration and construction disputes lawyers in the world. He has been recommended as a leading expert in commercial arbitration and litigation by, amongst others, the Euromoney Guides to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers and Experts in commercial arbitration and in the Legal Business Report on Legal Experts as an expert in arbitration, commercial litigation and construction and in the Chambers ‘Leaders in their Field’ as an expert in construction.
Philippa has a broad practice encompassing public law, planning and environmental law, local government law, commercial and employment law.
Specialisation: general commercial and common law practice, including commercial fraud, media and entertainment (contracts, copyright, breach of confidence/privacy, data protection, arbitration), defamation, music industry (contracts, copyright, Copyright Tribunal), sports law (including disciplinary proceedings, arbitration), insurance and reinsurance, sale of goods, restraint of trade, professional negligence. Reported cases concerning restraint of trade, freezing injunctions, letters of credit, civil fraud, tracing, judicial review, discovery, insurance, defamation, copyright and confidence/privacy, including: Warren v Mendy (boxing); Istel v Tully (privilege against self-incrimination); R v Jockey Club ex p Aga Khan (Jockey Club/judicial review); Alltrans v Interdom; Mannesman v Kaunlaran; HIB v Guardian Insurance; Formica v ECGD; C v S; Kazakhstan Wool Producers v NCM; Papamichael v National Westminster Bank (commercial); AIRC v PPL (Copyright Tribunal/licensing scheme); Brinks v Abu Saleh; Independent Trustee Services v GP Noble (tracing); Athletic Union of Constantinople v NBA (basketball/arbitration/award/jurisdiction); EMI v CD Specialists; Chater v Rose; Hyde Park Residence v Yelland; Ashdown v Telegraph; Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust v News Group; Sony v Easyinternet Cafe; Sawkins v Hyperion; Independiente v Music Trading Online; Twentieth Century Fox v BT; Twentieth Century Fox v Harris (copyright); Grobbelaar v News Group; Loutchansky v Times; Chase v News Group; Collins Stewart v Financial Times; Greene v Associated; Armstrong v Times; Polanski v Conde Nast; ZAM v CFW (defamation); Mills v News Group; Theakston v MGN; A v B; Jockey Club v Buffham; Campbell v MGN; AG v Parry; Cream Holdings v Banerjee; Green Corns v Claverley; X and Y v Persons Unknown; Murray v Express Newspapers; WER v REW; Re X (A Child); Terry v Persons Unknown; Lykiardopulo v Lykiardopulo; Ambrosiadou v Coward; Goodwin v News Group; JIH v News Group; Giggs v News Group; McLaren v NGN (confidence/privacy).
Barrister specialising in all areas of environmental, planning, compulsory purchase, administrative and local government law. Key reported cases include: R (Hillingdon) v SSfT [2010] EWCH 626 (Admin) (JR of the government’s support for a third runway at Heathrow); Morgan v Hinton Organics [2009] EWCA Civ 107 (Aarhus Convention and apparent bias); Sumption v Greenwich LBC [2007] EWHC 2776 (Admin) (JR of decision to certify as lawful development within the curtilage of a listed building); Sole v SSTI [2007] 1527 (Admin) (challenge to the Olympics CPO); National Anti-vivisection Society v FSS [2004] EWHC 2074 (Admin) (challenge to consent for a non-human primate research facility in the green belt). Key public enquiries include: Admiral Nelson Public House, Falmouth (HSE objection to redevelopment on ammonium nitrate safety grounds; Baumber, Langham, Triton Knoll and Enifer Downs windfarm Inquiries (Appeals against refusals re 7, 5, 333 and 6 turbine windfarm proposals in Lincolnshire and Kent).
Romilly is an established insurance practitioner, specialising in clinical negligence, personal injury, and related insurance issues. She has developed an extensive practice acting for both claimants and defendants in all types of injury-related litigation, including professional indemnity claims arising out of the negligent handling of injury litigation. Romilly has wide experience of claims concerning all branches of the medical professions. She has represented claimants and defendants in cases involving allegations of negligence against GPs, general surgeons, cardio-thoracic surgeons, cosmetic surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, district nurses, care assistants, opticians, and opthalmologists and has advised on a wide range of issues. Romilly is recognised in the Legal500 directory as a leading practitioner in injury law. She has extensive knowledge of injury-related litigation. Her expertise covers employers’ liability, public liability, occupiers’ liability, product liability, fatal accident claims, occupational disease litigation and motor-related claims. She provides substantive, procedural and tactical advice on liability issues and quantum and regularly handles multi-party actions. As well as being an experienced and highly regarded advocate, she is often instructed to conduct round table settlement conferences and to represent parties in mediation.
Barrister specialising in public law, human rights, immigration and employment law. He is currently writing the OUP textbook on immigration detention, due to be published at the end of 2014.
Sadie’s practice concentrates on clinical negligence and personal injury, with a particular emphasis on fraud. She appeared as second junior in the landmark case of Summers v Fairclough Homes Ltd [2012] 1 WLR 2004 and achieved the first strike out of a fraudulent claim using the powers identified in Summers in the case of Fari v Homes for Haringey, 9 October 2012, HHJ Mitchell QC. She is experienced in dealing with contempt applications and her case of Homes for Haringey v Fari, 22 January 2013, Holroyde J (QBD) was the first successful application for permission to bring contempt proceedings under the new CPR, Part 81. Sadie is a tenacious advocate who is regularly instructed in cases of complexity and value. She gives clear and robust advice at all stages of the litigation process and is a keen strategist in litigation and ADR. Other notable cases include Dowson et anors v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2010] All ER (D) 191 (Oct).
Samantha has a broad civil litigation and public law practice, with particular expertise in inquests and inquiries, court of protection, clinical negligence and personal injury, professional discipline and regulatory law. She is currently instructed as Junior Counsel to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Samantha is a strong and experienced Court and tribunal advocate having appeared in tribunals, county courts, the crown court, the coroner’s court and in the High Court on her own. She has a keen focus on client care, negotiation, and costs. She regularly drafts advices and pleadings and holds conferences with clients and experts. Samantha undertakes pro bono work with an interest in special educational needs and disability law. Samantha is regularly instructed on a direct access basis and happy to consider instructions on this basis. Before joining the Bar, Samantha most notably undertook a Judicial Assistantship at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Specialises in general commercial, costs, personal injury, and professional negligence.
Barrister specialising in environmental, planning and public law; significant cases include: R (Edwards) v Environment Agency [2006]; Humber Sea Terminal v Secretary of State [2005]; R (Hardy) v Pembrokeshire County Council [2006]; R (Transco plc) v Environment Agency [2007]; R (OSS Group Ltd) v Environment Agency [2007]; R (Horner) v Lancashire County Council [2007]; R (Pallikaropoulos) v Environment Agency [2008]; R (Akester) v DEFRA (2010); R (Walker) v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (2011); Barr v Biffa (2012). Publications: ‘Planning Law, Practice & Precedents’; ‘Commercial Leases’; ‘Encyclopedia of Environmental Law’; ‘ Nuclear Law’; ‘Contaminated Land’; ‘Environmental Impact Assessment’.
Barrister specialising in administrative and public law.
International Arbitration - as arbitrator and counselCommercial / Corporate DisputesConstruction (Onshore & Offshore)Energy & Natural Resources
With regard to clinical negligence work, Susan specialises in high-value claims and complex medical and scientific issues, including cerebral palsy and other birth injuries as well as acquired brain damage, failures to diagnose and serious spinal injuries. She also acts in related medical matters arising out of inquiries or inquests, disciplinary proceedings and pharmaceutical product liability. She also acts in related medical matters arising out of inquiries or inquests, disciplinary proceedings and pharmaceutical product liability. She was involved in the LSD and ECT group litigation. Her expertise in this area has seen her advice sought from solicitors in overseas jurisdictions. Notable cases: Dymott v Southampton University NHS Trust; Neame v Kent and Medway NHS; Breeze v Ahmad. Furthermore, Susan has extensive experience in catastrophic injuries in every aspect of personal injury litigation. This includes carbon monoxide poisoning, overseas road traffic accidents to UK nationals, paraplegia and tetraplegia, catastrophic brain injury, occupational disease; including stress from harassment. She has been instructed in several very high-profile cases recently which have drawn a lot of media attention and all will involve damages calculated in excess of £5m. Notable cases: Dawson and others v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police; Phethean-Hubble v Mr S Coles; Gibbons v Telford. Within the area of sports law, Susan acts for claimants and defendants in all cases arising out of equine arena. Notable cases: Camila Milbank v Luca Cumani; Kinane v Belstane and others.
Barrister whose principal area of practice is administrative law, with particular emphasis on town and country planning, environmental and compulsory purchase law; has been involved in a series of technically complex public inquiries examining the potential environmental impact of major development proposals; appeared for the (successful) applicants at the Manchester Airport Second Runway Inquiry; has also represented promoters of private Bills. Regularly advises and appears in respect of proposals for all types of development, including housing, business, leisure, retail, airport and port infrastructure, minerals and waste.
Direct and indirect tax arbitration. Timothy has a broad practice which includes VAT appeals, EU anti-dumping duty, public procurement, WTO law, the impact of the EU fundamental freedoms on direct tax, and EU state aid law. His interest in international matters has led to him advising on international as well as EU law, and his clients have included foreign governments as well as businesses and high-net-worth individuals. He represents in court, and advises, trustees of both domestic and international trusts on a wide range of issues, and is a member of STEP’s Cross-Border Estates group and its EU committee. He is a member of the EU Savings Directive group assisting the European Commission in the review of the EU Savings Directive. His book ‘EC Customs Law’ (OUP second edition 2008) has been called ‘simply the most up to date and comprehensive handbook on customs matters currently available in the English language’ and ‘a standard reference work for practitioners in the field of trade and customs legislation’. He is also the general editor of ‘European Cross-Border Estate Planning’ (Sweet & Maxwell), a contributor to ‘Value Added Tax: Commentary and Analysis’ (Sweet & Maxwell), and joint editor of the ‘International Guide to the Taxation of Trusts’ (IBFD).
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.
Barrister specialising in personal injury, product liability, sport and environmental claims (particularly wind farm related) and Judicial Review on renewable energy matters. Handles contract and tort claims, acting in the cases of Albright & Wilson v Berk & Biachem (HL) (contract/independent contractors) and Morris v Network Rail (CA) (noise/electrical nuisance); Davis v Tinsley (noise nuisance from wind farm) and Poppleton v Peter Ashley Centre (sports centre’s duty of care), Geary v Wetherspoon (CA 2008), Grimes v Hawkins, Yates v NT (all duty of care cases). Has appeared on a regular basis in sports cases, particularly racing and bloodstock and in the Welsh rugby cases, Jones & Ebbw Vale RFC v Welsh Rugby Union. Sits regularly as a chairman/arbitrator for Sports Resolutions and NADP (and other sports bodies). Has appeared in many major wind farm inquiries (e.g. Clyde and Northumberland/Ray) and in the judicial review/statutory appeals re Little Cheyne Court, Teeside Offshore and Goresedd Bran wind farms as well as Akester v Wightlink (Habitats Regulations) and several other projects for renewal energy development both onshore and offshore.