Barrister specialising in a wide range of civil work including personal injury, professional negligence, judicial review and employment law. Cases include: Wyre Forest DC v Secretary of State for the Environment [1990] 2 AC 357 (planning appeal);Inquest into deaths in Kegworth Air Disaster [1991] (acted for Air Accident Investigation Branch of MoD); Field v Herefordshire Health Authority [1991] (£1.6 million – first structured claim against Health Authority); Molinari v Ministry of Defence [1991] (claim for leukaemia caused by exposure to radiation on nuclear submarines); South Lakeland DC v Secretary of State for the Environment [1992] 2 AC 141 (planning appeal); inquest into deaths of nine servicemen from friendly fire in Gulf War [1992]; R v Secretary of State Home Department ex parte Abdi [1996] 1 WLR 298 (House of Lords appeal in judicial review of asylum claim); Birch v Hales Containers [1996] PIQR P307 (procedure relating to admissibility of video evidence).

Qualified 1977; Grays Inn; pupillage Ship Canal House, Manchester and 2 Crown Office Row 1977-78; joined 1 Temple Gardens 1979; appointed to Supplementary Panel of Treasury Counsel (Common Law) 1989.

Exeter University (LLB 2(1)).