| Year of birth | 1966 |
| Year of call | 1992 |
| Recorder | 2009 |
| Inn | Middle Temple |
| Circuit | South Eastern |
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A leading junior who acts almost exclusively for the defence.
Areas of specialisation include: Crime, serious fraud, corporate and financial crime as well as professional discipline (principally in cases before the General Medical Council). In the last year he has undertaken a considerable amount of pre-charge advisory work in SFO investigations. His practice of representing corporate clients in their claims before HMRC VAT tribunals continues to expand.
Regularly instructed in very complex and high profile cases. Frequently the first choice of solicitors acting for privately funded clients and those representing other members of the legal profession who are accused of crimes. This year he has represented solicitors charged with perverting the course of justice and supplying drugs to clients in police custody. Consistently cited as a leading junior in both Chambers and Partners Guide and the Legal 500.
Appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 2009.
Notable Cases
| Case name | R v Tina Dove | Case name | R v Williams |
| Appearance | Defence | Appearance | Defence Junior (led by Trevor Burke QC) |
| Detail | Legal executive facing allegations of doing acts tending to pervert the course of justice by interfering with prosecution witnesses. | Detail | Cold blooded murder by shooting of a 16 year old boy in the St Ann’s area of Nottingham which has remained unsolved for 7 years and over 20 people have been arrested during that time. |
| Case name | R v Boudjenane | Case name | R v Emmanuel |
| Appearance | Defence Junior (led by Orlando Pownall QC) | Appearance | Defence counsel |
| Detail | Murder, kidnap and rape. Defending an Algerian national living in the UK after a failed asylum application charged with murder. Known as the Kilburn headless corpse case. | Detail | Defendant charged with kidnapping, torturing and blackmailing a drugs courier believed to have stolen £200,000 of his principals’ money. |