Main Areas of Practice:
- Homicide
- Fraud and Money Laundering
- Health and Safety
- Environmental Law
- Inquests
Work in recent years has included prosecuting and defending numerous high profile Health & Safety cases (representing a wide range of clients including large commercial organisations and professional clients (for example, the headmaster of a special school prosecuted in relation to a drowning accident), a considerable amount of inquest work representing public bodies such as the Environment Agency and individuals such as teaching staff (including two inquests concerning the deaths of pupils in drowning accidents on school trips) and defending multi-national companies in prosecutions arising from major environmental incidents.
Clerk(s):
Jo Pickersgill: 0113 203 5500 (jo@parkcourtchambers.co.uk)
Kirsten Frankland: 0113 203 5501 (kirsten@parkcourtchambers.co.uk)
Appointments:
- Recorder
- Appointed to Attorney General’s List 2002
- Queen’s Counsel 2006
Additional Information:
Specialist Associations:
Criminal Bar Association, Health & Safety Lawyers Association
Recommendations:
Chambers & Partners 2008 (Crime): ".. has a similar practice (murder and fraud) but leavens it with a good deal of health and safety work. 'He thrives because he never shirks the task, however weighty or seemingly hopeless it is'".
Chambers 2007: listed in “notable practitioners” as “a new silk with a great track record as a junior”
Legal 500 2008-09: ".. is outstanding in HSE cases"
Legal 500 2007-08: ".. joined by new silk ... previously mentioned as a star junior"
Legal 500 2006: “very very good”
