Head of chambers, specialising in commercial litigation, employment, public sector.

Solicitor 1966-70; called Inner Temple 1970; Silk 1984; recorder 1986; master of the bench Inner Temple 1991; deputy High Court judge, Queen’s Bench division 1994; deputy chairman, Information Tribunal, national security appeals 2000, president 2007; admitted ad hoc to bars of Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Singapore, Malawi, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland; co-editor ‘Supperstone, Goudie and Walker on Judicial Review’ (6th edition 2017 with 2019 supplement); co-editor ‘Butterworths Local Government Law’ (1998); co-editor ‘Local Authorities and the Human Rights Act 1998’; consultant editor, ‘Local Government Reports’; editorial board, ‘Judicial Review’, Tolley’s Employment Law, contributor.

Chairman, Administrative Law Bar Association 1994-96; chairman, Bar European Group 2001-03; chairman, law reform committee, Bar Council 1994-96; fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies; Bar Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Antigua and Barbuda and British Virgin Islands).

Dean Close School; London School of Economics (1963 LLB Hons).

Governor, London School of Economics 2001.