Principal areas of practice:

• Professional negligence: acting on behalf of claimants and defendants in claims against solicitors and barristers (including wasted costs) arising out of family matters (financial, children and Inheritance Act claims), general common law and crime.
• Family: all types of ancillary relief claims, including "big money" cases; Inheritance Act claims; issues arising from compensation orders and the Proceeds of Crime Act; co-ownership claims.

Member of the Professional Negligence Bar Association and the Family Law Bar Association.

Notable cases include:

Kelley v Corston [1997] 4 All ER 466 CA (advocate's immunity: instructed by Veale Wasborough on behalf of Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund Limited)

Farrer v Copley Singletons 1997 CA (solicitors' negligence: instructed by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain on behalf of Solicitors Indemnity Fund)

C v C (Wasted Costs Order) [1994] 2 FLR 34 Family Division (claim for wasted costs against solicitors and counsel, instructed by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain on behalf of BMIF)

Hepburn v Hepburn [1989] 1 FLR 373

S v S [1986] Fam 189

Harvey v Harvey [1982] Fam 83