David Hercock specialises in regulatory and administrative law. He has experience across a broad range of disciplines with particular expertise in the following specialist areas: environmental and planning, health and safety, consumer and trading law (including product liability, trading standards and OFT enforcement action), food law, licensing law (including alcohol, entertainment, gambling, traffic commissioner inquiries and taxi licensing), care standards and care regulation, data protection and information law, professional discipline (including solicitors, doctors and accountants) and administrative law generally (including judicial review and advice to public authorities on powers, duties and functions). He has significant experience of regulatory prosecutions, judicial reviews and High Court appeals, claims before the civil courts, enforcement proceedings, inquests, statutory appeals and inquiries and tribunal procedures.