Personal Injury

Regularly instructed in fast track and interlocutory multi-track matters, Paul has a keen interest in all aspects of road traffic claims, including fraudulent claims, low-velocity impact claims and credit hire charges. His other areas of focus are Occupiers Liability, Health and Safety at Work and actions against Local Authorities. He also places a keen emphasis on recovery of costs at all stages of litigation and will undertake cases on a conditional fee basis.

In 2004 Paul acted as junior to one of the claimants in the leading House of Lords decision on the duty of care hospital trusts owe to parents of incorrectly diagnosed non-accidental injuries; JD, MAK, RK v. East Berkshire Community Health Trust [2005] UKHL 23.

He is a member of the Personal Injury Bar Association and St Johns Buildings' Personal Injury team.
 

Crime

Undertaking both prosecution and defence work, Paul focuses on cases sent to the Crown Court with particular emphasis on drugs, assault, robbery and burglary matters. He has appeared at the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions for both sentence and conviction appeals.

In the last two years he has been instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service as junior in a murder case and three separate multi-handed drugs conspiracies one of which ran for four years and involved analysis of complex phone records.

He is also instructed in privately paid road traffic charges for the defence.

Regulatory

Having developed a practice in Customs & Excise work Paul has continued to diversify into other areas of regulatory crime, including; actions for and against the Local Authority, licensing (including taxi licensing) and Health & Safety prosecutions.