Peter has been instructed on a range of clinical negligence matters, including misdiagnosis, negligent and delayed treatment. He has provided advice on liability, as well as detailed quantum advices and associated pleadings. He has conducted conferences with medical experts and clients, as well as conducted settlement hearings. He prides himself on a quick turnaround of instructions.

Peter has undertaken a wide variety of hearings and prepared pleadings in general common law matters. Recent successful matters include defending a building company against allegations of poor workmanship; a claim by an international printing company against a hotel chain; and a claim for injunctive relief in a property dispute, and enforcement of a foreign judgment in England. His own commercial background enables him to readily assess contracts and similar papers.

Peter represents defendant insurers in many types of cases across his practise, including RTAs, EL and PL claims, credit hire and other diverse matters such as travel. He is regularly instructed to consider, plead and pursue allegations of dishonesty in the personal injury sphere, as well as by insurers in the tort of deceit, arising from claims made where the accident has been staged or is otherwise fraudulent.

Peter’s practice includes a wide variety of personal injury work, and he is regularly instructed both in court and in preparation of advice and pleadings. Instructions include both Claimant and Defendant work, sometimes on CFAs, across the full range of occupiers’ liability, public liability, employers’ liability and road traffic.

Peter frequently represents Defendants and their insurers in pursuing allegations of fundamental dishonesty and, in the RTA context, the tort of deceit.

Peter’s experience includes liability matters, personal injury, quantum disputes, credit hire and dishonesty allegations, as well as procedural matters and cost hearings. Adept at analysis, he has had particular success with ‘black box’ data and in LVI challenges. As a ‘career-changer’ at the Bar, Peter brings a maturity to proceedings which is valued by lay-clients at trial and in pre-trial conference. Peter is also regularly instructed in paperwork matters, including all pleadings as well as advice on liability and quantum.

Peter is regularly instructed to provide advice, pleadings and attend trial in EL/PL claims, including classic slip/trips in the workplace and on the highway; regulatory matters such as provision of equipment, safe working methods and risk assessments, and application of the “six-pack” regulations generally. He has represented local authorities and housing bodies, and also deals with claims in an education setting.

Peter came to the Bar with considerable international commercial experience. In his former career he was responsible for negotiating and contracting the tours of major performing arts groups throughout Europe and Asia, dealing with multi-jurisdiction contracts in respect of fees, sponsorship, royalties, travel and hotel arrangements. Inevitably he also encountered first-hand the occasional perils of such complexity.

Within his practice at the Bar, Peter is instructed by both Claimants and Defendants and appears regularly in fast and multi track matters, as well as associated applications and cost matters. Within his travel practice he has been instructed in a wide range of matters including aviation claims, PI matters, jurisdictional arguments and pleading advice, cancellations, insurance disputes, and even losses from drone incursions.

Peter has experience at multiday trials and other hearings in acting for major airlines. Cases have included on-the-ground manual handling injuries, claims by maintenance workers in-aircraft, and in-flight crew injury. Peter regularly advises and is experienced at considering detailed technical data including weather reporting and navigation. He has also had to consider the interplay between EU regulations and post-Brexit law, as well as cross-jurisdictional pleadings. Quantum of costs where relevant, and advice on offers, naturally forms part of his aviation practice.

He has a busy paperwork practice and can turnaround paperwork at short notice.

• 2018: BPTC, BPP University, assessed Very Competent.
• 2017: Bachelor of Laws LLB, Open University, First.

• Honourable Society of Grey’s Inn.
• Personal Injuries Bar Association.
• London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association.
• Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
• Association of Costs Lawyers.

Away from the law Peter is a slow but persistent runner, butler to two dachshunds, and plays the trombone.