18 St John Street Chambers

Personal injury, professional negligence (including clinical negligence), contract, product liability, road transport law, employment, immigration.

Notable cases: R v Secretary of State for Transport and Others ex p. Go Ahead Group [2010] EWHC 223 (admin); junior counsel in major judicial review proceedings concerning the operation and statutory interpretation of the concessionary bus fare regime; R v Noor Hussain (2010); prosecuting counsel in substantial MOT Fraud trial; James Brown v Traffic Commissioner for Scotland – Transport Tribunal November 2010; Bradley Fold Travel Limited v NW Traffic Commissioner – Transport Tribunal July 2009; Pass v Dyson (2009); RTA Multiple injury brain damage claim – accident reconstruction evidence – multiple experts; Karen Roberts v CICA (2010); major brain injury, appeal to First-Tier Tribunal concerning recoverablity in principle of contested heads of damage; Evelyn Enion v Sefton MBC (1999); Highways – Environment – Local Government – Negligence – Personal Injury CA (Civ Div) (Kennedy LJ, Laws LJ) 9/2/99 References: LTL 9/2/99 EXTEMPORE (Unreported elsewhere) Document No.: Case Law – AC9500141. Lectures presented: Sep 2011 – Regulation 5(1) of the Workplace Health Safety and Welfare Regulations (1992) – ‘When is Strict Liability not Strict Liability?’ – an analysis of recent case law on the restrictive interpretation of Regulation 5 of the Workplace Regulations 1992, including consideration of its inter-relationship with Regulation 12 (which deals specifically with defects in/on floors and traffic routes) and a discussion of the probable and practical limits of Regulation 5 as a general purpose strict liability provision. Jan 2010 – Employers Liability Claims Update, discussing case law developments in the interpretation and application of the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, and the Provision and Use of work Equipment Regulations 1998.

Called 1988;

Practicing from the outset in a major common law circuit set he gained broad experience in criminal and regulatory jurisdictions (particularly with reference to large goods and public service vehicles), landlord and tenant, building and contractual disputes, which he has supplemented with a post-graduate qualification in health and safety law, as well as recently undertaking specialist training and practice in the Court of Protection. This breadth of experience has led to a reputation of thinking outside the box and he is often instructed in what are perceived to be problematic, cross-over or difficult to pigeon-hole cases.

He acts regularly for both Claimant and Defence on cases involving complex arguments of causation, fraud and fundamental dishonesty. He also undertakes direct access work and has acted for clients on this basis before the CICA, at Inquests and on advisory work. 

Exeter University (LLB); Inns of Court; Salford University (diploma in health and safety and environmental law 2010).

Sailing, rugby, fell walking, gardening, cooking.