Joel acts for claimants and respondents across the full spectrum of claims before the Employment Tribunal. He has a keen interest in this area of law and it forms an increasingly significant part of his practice. He has particular experience of cases involving high value personal injury claims.

He regularly appears in lengthy trials, appeals, preliminary hearings, applications, and mediations. In addition, he drafts pleadings and advises on all aspects of claims.

Personal injury accounts for a large part of Joel’s practice. He acts for claimants and defendants in the full range of claims, including those relating to road traffic accidents, occupiers’ liability and accidents at work. Increasingly, the matters he deals with are high value, and involve complex medical evidence and quantum issues.

Joel is instructed to deal with all stages of claims, including pleadings, advising on liability and quantum, CCMCs, Part 35 questions, conferences with experts, JSMs, and trials.

Joel also has extensive experience in the associated areas of civil fraud and credit hire. He has obtained numerous findings of fundamental dishonesty and obtained damages for insurers against several fraudulent claimants in the tort of deceit. He has also appeared in many credit hire claims in excess of £50,000 for both claimants and defendants, and has an in-depth knowledge of the law.

Joel has a keen interest in clinical negligence and it is an area of his practice that he is actively seeking to expand.

Before coming to the Bar, Joel worked as a guide leading tours of Western Europe and he has a particular interest in personal injury claims arising from accidents abroad or with a foreign element. It is an area of practice that he is looking to expand.

Joel has considerable experience of dealing with claims brought in the English courts applying foreign law, as well as claims brought under the Package Travel Regulations. He has also dealt with numerous cases concerning road traffic accidents in this country involving foreign registered vehicles.

Joel has extensive experience of acting for insurers in claims involving motor insurance fraud. He has obtained numerous findings of fundamental dishonesty. He has also secured damages for insurers against several fraudulent claimants in the tort of deceit.

Joel is instructed by claimants and defendants in road traffic cases involving uninsured and untraced drivers, and is fully conversant with all of the issues that arise. For example, he recently advised on the potential liability of the various insurers when an uninsured employee of a car wash crashed a customer’s car.

Joel also has experience of cases involving misrepresentation / non-disclosure within the context of insurance contracts. As an example, he appeared in a Multi-Track trial in a case involving a driver’s non-disclosure of her previous fixed-point penalties and her insurer’s attempt to void the insurance policy under the terms of the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012.

Joel has an interest in recovery claims arising from property damaged by fire, storm, flood etc, and this area forms an increasing part of his practice.

Joel represents businesses and individuals on a wide range of commercial matters including contractual disputes, landlord & tenant, mortgage possession, orders for sale, bankruptcy, and consumer credit.

• 2017    South Eastern Circuit scholarship to attend the Florida Bar Advanced Trial Advocacy Program at the University of Florida.
• 2013    Certificate of Honour for Results in the BPTC, Middle Temple.
• 2012 – 2013    BPTC, BPP Law School, London: Outstanding.
• 2013    The Times Law Award essay competition:  Runner Up.
• 2012    Blackstone Entrance Exhibition, Middle Temple.
• 2011 – 2012    GDL, City University, London: Commendation.
• 2011    Jules Thorn Scholarship, Middle Temple.
• 1999 – 2003    MA (Hons) History, University of Edinburgh: First Class.
• Before coming to the Bar, Joel was on the Civil Service Fast Stream and worked as a tour guide in Western Europe. 

• Personal Injury Bar Association.
• Employment Law Association.
• South Eastern Circuit.
• Middle Temple.

Joel is married with two children but still finds time for cycling, theatre, travel, cooking, and playing football and tennis. He also has a keen interest in history and politics.