Profile

• BA (Durham, 1980)
• Bar Vocational Course: Outstanding
• Called to the Bar 2004, Lincoln's Inn
• Member of FLBA

David specialises in family law. He acts and advises in all areas of:

• private law, including contact, residence, leave to remove and related committal proceedings
• special guardianship applications
• public law care and adoption proceedings, in which he has acted for local authorities, parents and guardians
• injunctions and domestic violence applications under the Family Law Act 1996, including occupation orders and transfers of tenancy, and related committal proceedings
• matrimonial work and separation of cohabitants; he was involved in Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17 concerning the property rights of cohabiting partners

OTHER EXPERIENCE

David came to the Bar after a successful career in local government.

PRIZES

• Buchanan Prize (Lincoln’s Inn, 2004)
• Erskine Chambers Prize, 2004
• Matrix Chambers Prize, 2004