2 Temple Gardens

Personal Injury Sports Injury Product Liability Property Damage Professional Negligence Insurance Clinical Negligence Public Access Mediation

Common law and insurance practice including personal injury claims, professional negligence and property damage and nuisance claims, in particular fire, flood and tree roots subsidence for many local authority clients. Extensive background in contract & commercial, real property and landlord & tenant law brings additional expertise to bear on leasehold property damage claims and to professional negligence actions involving conveyancing and construction professionals. Considerable experience of large scale, complex, document-heavy litigation, in particular as successful junior in Re: Landhurst Leasing a directors’ disqualification case. He regularly advises personal injury, buildings and other insurers on a broad range of contractual issues including coverage and subrogation.

A busy claimant and defendant personal injury practice covering the whole spectrum of liability and quantum disputes, in particular employers’ liability, industrial disease, occupiers’ and public liability, product liability, RTAs and the MIB and Animals Act cases. He has an interest in sporting and dangerous pursuits, regularly advising in winter sports, football, rugby and cricket cases; he acted extensively for the defendant club in parachuting and gliding accidents including catastrophic and fatal cases. Experienced trial and interlocutory advocate in most civil and criminal courts and tribunals including inquests, in particular for Spanish cinema seating manufacturer, Figueras, in Re: Ateeq Rafiq (deceased) in the Birmingham Coroner’s Court in 2019. Considerable experience of settling and arguing complex and high-value schedules and counter schedules of loss and of cross-examining experts in many different fields.

Notable cases:

Purbrick v. London Borough of Hackney [2004] 1 P&CR 34
Re: Landhurst Leasing [1999] BCLC 286, Ch.D
Smith v. Donelon & Co. Ltd (1998) LTL, CA
Cuthbert v. Bannister (1998) LTL, CA
Kelsey Housing Association v. King [1995] 28 HLR 270, CA

Year of call 1989, Inn Middle Temple Trained Mediator by Regent's College

Personal Injury Bar Association London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association

University of Westminster Dip. Law University of Reading BA (Econ) Hons Harrow School

Family life and sport, in particular cricket, rugby, tennis and skiing. Level 2 cricket coach. Full member of MCC (in London) and MCG (in Melbourne). Life member of Cheshire Rugby Football Club.

Year of birth 1965. Resides in London.