Gatehouse Chambers

Michael specialises in construction and engineering disputes and general commercial litigation. Michael’s cases frequently involve high-value and technically-complex disputes, both in the TCC and international litigation and arbitration. His commercial practice tends to focus on difficult issues of contractual interpretation, including heavily-amended standard form and third party agreements.

Michael serves as a member of the Executive Committee of TECBAR and Council of the Society of Construction Law. He is also a TECBAR-accredited Adjudicator and Mediator.

In addition to his practice, Michael is a Visiting Lecturer and an LLM supervisor at The City Law School, University of London, and lectures at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London.

Called 2015, Lincoln’s Inn.

Society of Construction Law (Member of Council) TECBAR (Executive Committee) Bar Council Appointments Service (Panel Mediator) Fellow, Royal Society of Arts Medico-Legal Society (Member of Council) British Insurance Law Association London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association Bar Pro Bono Unit

BPTC and LL.M. (Distinction, highest mark in year) – The City Law School, London Bar Professional Training Course (‘Very Competent’) – The City Law School, London MA (with Honours and Commonwealth Scholarship) in Law – Trinity College, Cambridge (graduated in two years) MSc in Comparative Social Policy – St Cross College, Oxford BA in political science, summa cum laude – University of Pennsylvania (graduated two years early)

Whilst at Bar school, Michael received numerous scholarships from Lincoln’s Inn and was one-half of the team which won the national Inter-Provider Moot Competition. He similarly was one-half of the winning team awarded the Lincoln’s Inn Debating Shield.