On any day I could be advising a client on defamation on a website or in an e-mail, another client who needs to defend a publication of a libel in a newspaper and another who has a privacy issue. It is a varied and wide practice which is never dull.

I have been a leading defamation practitioner recommended in both Chambers and the Legal 500 for over 10 years. Topical lunches given by leading media figures are held from time to time at our offices, which I organise. Last year a very successful lunch was held with Sir Christopher Meyer, Chairman of the PCC speaking to a select audience. I regularly comment on Sky TV or BBC 24 on libel and privacy cases and contribute articles to Times Law, Solicitors Journal and New Law Journal and other legal publications, as well as the media generally.

Examples of the types of cases I have recently handled and the varied nature of the practice in which I am engaged are as follows: Representing a Chief Executive and Plc against an individual posting defamatory allegations on the internet and harassing the client. An injunction has been obtained and also a committal of the individual to prison for contempt of court. Representing a national newspaper in connection with a breach of the Sexual Offences Amendment Act in identifying a Complainant in a sexual assault case. Representing a doctor defamed by the director of her hospital and obtaining substantial libel damages and a public apology.

The clients for whom I work include both Claimant and/or Defendant clients, public companies or private individual clients and all the work is sensitive and confidential. The work is primarily prepublication work, or advising clients on how to stop defaming or being defamed.

LLB (Hons) from King's College London, Media Training Course

In my spare time I play tennis and am a member of the Hurlingham Club. I am married with three sons and live near Farnham.