Where/when you studied: Canon Slade Secondary School, The University of Birmingham and Manchester Metropolitan University
Professional expertise before joining the firm: none
When you joined the firm: September 1997
Department responsibilities: Partner in the Criminal and Civil Litigation Departments
Areas of special legal expertise: Criminal Defence and Health and Safety Executive and Department for Work and Pensions prosecutions, Personal Injury for claimants and Criminal Injury Compensation Authority applications
Where educated: Canon Slade Secondary School, The University of Birmingham and Manchester Metropolitan University
First job: Waiter
Hobbies: Football, cricket, music, tending the allotment
Favourite food: Anything cooked by my wife
Favourite film: Strangers on a train/ ET
Favourite group/artist: Mahler, Bruckner, Mozart
Ultimate holiday destination: Everest Base Camp/ Trans-Siberian Railway
Favourite sport/team: Bolton Wanderers
Favourite book: Crime and Punishment/ A Confederacy of Dunces
Likes: A job well done, having a rest, holidays, dinner parties
Dislikes: A job done poorly, litter, unnecessary legislation
Personal ambition: To try to be successful in all I do and to enjoy life in the process, oh and to dive with a Great White Shark and to play Second Horn in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (well First Horn would be stretching it too far!)
