Barrister specialising in all aspects of land law and use (including planning, compulsory purchase and related topics).

Called 1986; silk 2006; FCIArb 2014; Member of Agricultural Law Association ADR Panel (Arbitration) 2020. Previously: Supplementary Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (Common Law) (now the ‘B’ Panel) 1995-2000; junior counsel to the Crown (‘A’ Panel) 2000-06. Publications: co-author of ‘Unlawful Interference with Land’ (2nd edition 2002); contributor to ‘Hill & Redman’s Law of Landlord and Tenant’ and ‘Halsbury’s Laws on Compulsory Acquisition (1995)’; The Electronic Communications Code and Property Law (2018) editor of ‘Halsbury’s Laws’ on ‘Distress’ (reissue 2000), ‘Forestry’ (reissue 2009), ‘Perpetuities and Accumulations’ (reissue 2012); Commons (2017); author of ‘The Law of Rights of Light” (2016).

Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Planning and Environment Bar Association; Compulsory Purchase Association; Arbrix and Agricultural Law Association.

Trinity College, Oxford.