Head of Chambers. Barrister specialising principally in intellectual property, information technology, competition, EC and scientific commercial law; also environmental and administrative law; practice includes advocacy and advisory work in a wide variety of cases, many with EC and international aspects. Please see website entry at www.8newsquare.co.uk for recent cases.

Called 1988, Middle Temple; junior counsel to the crown in patent cases 1997; joint editor ‘Clerk & Lindsell on Torts’ (17th ed), ‘Encyclopedia of UK & European Patent Law’; joint author of ‘Guidebook to Intellectual Property Law’.

German and French.

Intellectual Property Bar Association Chairman (IPBA); Bar Council Policy Committee; Chancery Bar Association.

University College Oxford (1985 BA Physics and Philosophy); Central London Polytechnic (1986 Dip Law); Harvard Law School (1987 LLM).

Music (piano).