Education and Training
LLB(Hons) Law: First Class with honours.
BCL: Brasenose College, Oxford.
Bar Vocational Course: Very Competent.

Called to the Bar by Inner Temple: 1999.

Specialities
Employment Law.
Commercial and Civil law: including licensing.
General Common law.


Cases
Hipgrave v Jones [2004] EWHC 2901 QB.

Experience
I have represented clients at various levels of the court and tribunal system, from professional conduct tribunals up to the Court of Appeal. As an employment lawyer I have appeared in the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

Examples of my current and recent employment law practice include:

• defending a £500,000 age discrimination claim;
• defending a claim for sex discrimination valued at over £400,000;
• representing the Claimant in a multiday disability discrimination claim against a Local Authority;
• advising on the severance package for a senior executive of a multi-national company where the package offered was valued at £500,000.
  

Work Related Activities
In addition to my work I am also:

• Head of previous Chambers' Employment Practice Group;
• Head of previous Chambers' Pupillage Committee responsible for the recruitment and training of pupil barristers;
• a Pupil Supervisor;
• an Inner Temple Student Sponsor;
• King's College London: visiting lecturer on the law of Evidence: 2005.