Commercial litigation including: accountancy – for (and against) accountants in connection with various alleged breaches of duties including in respect of audit; reporting in respect of accountancy matters contested takeover bids, investigations on acquisition/sale; local government and administrative cases such as council tax capping, interest rate swaps, removal school governors; building and civil engineering for major contractors, with a small amount of white-collar crime; extensive experience, both as a junior and as QC, of litigation in Bermuda and in the Cayman Islands having conducted substantial trials there and advised in other matters.

Called 1976; Gray’s Inn (ad eundem Lincoln’s Inn); QC 1993; Bencher 2001; tutorial assistant, University of Leicester; deputy High Court judge 2007.

Commercial Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Criminal Bar Association.

University of Leicester (1974 LLB First Class Hons).