Fountain Court Chambers

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation with an emphasis in aviation, trade finance, banking, (re)/insurance and arbitration. In aviation regularly represents manufacturers, airlines, insurers, financiers and leasing parties in a wide range of aviation matters dealing with: aircraft leasing, jurisdiction and air disaster, aviation insurance/reinsurance and regulatory work.

Notable cases include: Celestial v UniCredit (letter of credit and Russia sanctions dispute); DAE v War Risks Insurers (Aircraft reinsurance dispute arising from Russian invasion of Ukraine); FWA v VietJet (Aircraft repossession dispute); Qatar Airways v Airbus (aircraft delivery / product liability dispute); Wilmington Trust v SpiceJet (frustration of aircraft lease); Airbus v Generali (jurisdiction/title to sue); Re:Thomas Cook (in liquidation) (airline licensing); Re:Monarch Airways (in administration) (judicial review of airport slot allocation); LAIL and OTS v Maroil (joint venture/shareholder dispute concerning reflective loss) Petrosaudi v Novo Banco (banking / letter of credit); Alpstream v PK and GECAS (aircraft finance); Involnert v Aprilgrange and others (insurance moral hazard); Lipton v BA CityFlyer (SC) (UK Reg 261 rights); Jet 2 v Huzar (CA) (EC Reg 261 rights); Blue Sky v Chartis & Others (insurance dispute concerning Iranian sanctions); PK v Mahan (arrest of aircraft and enforcement of judgment); Kibris v SoS and Republic of Cyprus (review of right to fly from UK); acting in Bermuda Form and other international arbitration disputes).

Called 1990; Inner Temple; called to the British Virgin Islands Bar 1999; Silk 2010.

Publications: contributor to ‘Carriage by Air’ (2000); Bullen and Leake and Jacob’s ‘Precedents of Pleadings’ (19th edition), Halsbury’s Laws “Aviation” (2017, 5th edition) and ‘Commercial Court Procedure’.

Working French.