Member of Attorney-General’s A Panel (Civil), Welsh government A Panel and Attorney-General’s Panel of Special Advocates. Junior counsel to the Bloody Sunday inquiry 2000-2010. Instructed on the Al-Sweady inquiry 2013-2014. Other work includes judicial review, immigration, inquests and prison law. Regularly instructed as a special advocate before SIAC.

Called 1990; Inner Temple; junior barrister in self-employed practice since 1991.

French, Welsh.

Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association; Human Rights Lawyers Association.

Howell’s School, Llandaff; Queens’ College, Cambridge (1988 BA).

Animal welfare, riding, wildlife conservation.