Acting for a wide range of clients in connection with: compliance issues, requests, appeals and claims arising under the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Acts 1998 and 2018 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and privacy-related claims for misuse of private information and breach of article 8 of the ECHR.

I have also advised on data and privacy issues in the context of: accidental disclosures; adoption information cases; bulk personal datasets; credit investigations and reports; health data; investigatory powers and surveillance; media and television reports; online harms; open source materials; press releases; the Register of Companies; security and intelligence databases; scientific research; telephony and switchboard services; the use of and unauthorised access to personal email accounts in the workplace; vetting information; and voyeurism offences.

Contributor to all six editions of Coppel on “Information Rights” (2004, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2020 and 2023).

Dealing with human rights issues in the context of all other areas of work, including experience of cases in Strasbourg.

Acting for interested persons (including families, healthcare professionals and private and public sector bodies) and coroners in connection with inquests into healthcare and hospital deaths, deaths in custody (prison, police, immigration and mental health), workplace and road traffic accidents, service deaths and related claims in tort and under article 2 of the ECHR. In particular, acted for the family of Molly Russell in the inquest into her death (online harms) and as Counsel to the Inquest in the Guildford Pub Bombing inquest.

Acted for Number 10 witnesses in the Hutton Inquiry and have been heavily involved in the Undercover Policing Inquiry since 2017. In the latter, I am acting for a core participant group comprising more than 110 former Met Police members of the Special Demonstration Squad and National Public Order Intelligence Unit. I have also worked on other statutory and non-statutory investigations, inquiries and reports including as counsel to the Intelligence Services Commissioner (Michael Adebolajo torture claims) and Operation Kenova ('Stakeknife' and other Northern Ireland legacy cases).

Acting for claimants and defendants in a wide variety of contexts including: national security, extremism and investigatory powers; human rights; police, prisons and probation; immigration; education; Crown immunity and Crown proceedings; and the Equality Act 2010.

In the national security context, I have acted for the intelligence services, government, the police and oversight bodies in relation to: breach of confidence and injunction claims; closed material procedures and public interest immunity; contempt of court; and reporting restrictions. I have also acted for the Ministry of Defence on dozens of cases under the special forces confidentiality contracts, including 12 injunction claims and a judicial review.