Barrister specialising in health and safety and pollution, and personal injury; cases include (health and safety and pollution): R v John Laing Plc [1994] (tower crane collapse) – junior prosecuting counsel); R v Nuclear Electric Plc [1995] (Wylfa power station incident); R v Coalite Ltd [1996] (pollution with dioxins); R v Port Ramsgate and Others [1997] (walkway collapse); Basingstoke & Deane BC v J Sainsbury [1998] (dangerous forklift truck); Tarmac Heavy Building Materials [1999]; R v Taramis (South East) Ltd [1999]; HSE v London Underground Ltd [2000]; R v Railcare Ltd [2000]; R v Homebase [2001] (scope of undertaking in relation to accident in service yard); prosecutes for HSE and local authorities in health and safety cases and represents and advises defendants in such cases and health and safety law generally; (personal injury): cases across the whole range of value; licensing work, street markets, planning enforcement and other functions subject to local authority regulation; employment law.

Qualified 1980; Middle Temple; Chambers of Anthony Cripps QC, 1 Harcourt Building 1981-90; Chambers of Geoffrey Nice QC, I Temple Gardens 1990; MP for Beaconsfield 1997. Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland since 2010. As Attorney General Dominic is not available for work.

French.

Oxford University (MA).