3 Verulam Buildings

Barrister with a general commercial practice, specialising in insurance, insurance-related and reinsurance work; professional negligence work (including defending accountants, actuaries, architects, brokers, engineers, financial professionals, solicitors, surveyors and valuers); practice also includes arbitration work, insolvency work regulatory work; product liability work (frequently insurance related); recent reported cases include: GE Reinsurance Corp & Others v New Hampshire Insurance Co [2003] EWHC 302 (Comm), [2004] Lloyd’s Rep IR 404; Midland Mainline Ltd & Others v Commercial Union Assurance Co Ltd & Others [2003] EWHC 1771 (Comm), [2004] Lloyd’s Rep IR 22; College Credit Ltd v The National Guarantee Corporation Ltd [2004] EWHC 978 (Comm); Friends Provident Life & Pensions Ltd v Sirius International Insurance Corp & Others [2004] EWHC 1799 (Comm), [2004] 2 All ER (Comm) 707, [2005] Lloyd’s Rep IR 135, [2005] EWHC Civ 601, [2005] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 517; BP plc v Aon Limited and Another [2005] EWHC 424 & 2115 (Comm), [2006] Lloyd’s Rep IR 577; HIH Casualty and General Insurance Ltd v JLT Risk Solutions Ltd [2006] EWHC 485 (Comm), [2006] Lloyd’s Rep IR 493, [2007] EWCA Civ 710, [2007] Lloyd’s Rep IR 717; GNER Ltd v JLT Corporate Risks Ltd [2006] EWHC 1478 (QB); Standard Life Assurance Ltd v Oak Dedicated Ltd & Ors [2008] EWHC 222 (Comm), [2008] Lloyd’s Rep IR 552; Dornoch Ltd & ors v Westminster International BV & ors [2009] EWHC 201 (Admlty), [2009] Lloyd’s Rep IR 496, [2009] EWHC 1782 (Admlty), [2009] Lloyd’s Rep IR 540; Re Commercial Union Life Assurance Company Ltd [2009] EWHC 2521 (Ch).

Called 1984; appointed QC in 2003; appointed recorder in 2009.

Oxford University (BA).