Call: 2001
Carl joined chambers in 2003 and practices in the core areas of chambers’ work particularly professional liability, commercial and chancery litigation, insurance, and construction. Carl was recognised as a leading junior in the field of professional negligence in the 2011 Legal 500 and described as a ‘budding star’.
Over the last few years Carl has been instructed in several large multi-party pieces of litigation concerning the liability of professionals, commercial disputes and insurance.
Carl provides legal advice with an emphasis on commercial reality and advocacy tailored to match the courts in which he appears. He aims to draft statements of case that are readily comprehensible while also being comprehensive.
Carl is a formally accredited mediator and has a particular interest in mediation. He has considerable experience advising and acting in relation to mediations for both claimants and defendants and in a wide variety of types of dispute. As a mediator Carl is happy to undertake claims of any size but specialises in those of a more modest value.
Carl acts as an arbitrator and has been retained to advise and act for parties in a number of arbitrations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Carl has extensive experience of cases involving expert evidence of many different disciplines and of claims where limitation issues are central.
Carl also loves cars and is developing a niche practice specialising in legal issues relating to supercars, both classic and contemporary. He has acted for Mark Webber the Red Bull Formula 1 racing driver. He was also instructed in a multi-party dispute over the ownership of a Pagani Zonda F C12 Coupe Clubsport and has been consulted in other tortious and contractual claims with an international flavour regarding classic cars including high value cases concerning a pre-war chassis and a replica of a pre-war classic car.
Carl read law before finishing sixth on the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law winning the Stephen Seabrooke Memorial Prize, the Everard Ver Heyden Foundation Prize and the Buchanan Prize as well as being awarded the Wolfson Scholarship by Lincoln's Inn. Before joining chambers Carl taught law to undergraduates at the University of Reading.
Education
LL.B. (First Class) Dip. PLS