His practice is on both an international and domestic scale, encompassing:

• Charities great and small

• Prestigious grant-giving foundations

• Household-name charity  organisations in the religious  medical, educational fields

• Independent schools

• Universities

• Museums, recreational and arts charities

• Particular expertise:

  -Compliance issues

  -Public benefit requirements of the new Charities Act 2006

  -Policy of the Government and of the Charity Commission

 

“The doyen of charity lawyers always looked to for the definitive response” – The Lawyer

 

Distinctive aspects of Counsel’s approach:

·         Flexibility, tenacity and attention to detail

·         Comprehensive research

·         Imaginative anticipatory thinking

·         Familarity with the latest version of  SORP and the new corporate rescue regime of the Enterprise Act

·         Experience and involvement in important banking and receivership cases in the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia

·         Face-to-face conferences in solicitors’ offices, the conference rooms of the Middle Temple, or the Bar Council

·         Available to visit charities’ headquarters

·         Undertakes urgent last-minute work – appeal documents skeleton arguments