Qualifications and experience
• Cambridge University BA in law
• Completed articles with Macfarlanes and admitted as a solicitor in 1993
• Post qualification experience in tax, trusts, financial planning and charity law at Macfarlanes and W S Walker and Co, Cayman Islands
• Deputy director of Kurdish Human Rights Project, registered charity, between 1998 and 2000
• Joined Bates Wells & Braithwaite in 2000 to work in charity and private client departments advising charities and private individuals
• Partner at BWB 2002-2003

Type of work
• General advice to charities on establishment, constitutional issues, governance, reorganisations, mergers, Charity Commission, fundraising, commercial agreements, legacies and disputed probate
• Assistance to social enterprises, including regular training on legal structures for social enterprises

Publications, talks and pro bono work
• Co-author of the second edition of "Charities, Trading and the Law", published by Jordans in March 2009
• Contributor to the sixth edition of "Charitable Status, a Practical Handbook", published by Directory of Social Change in January 2008
• Co-author of "Charities - The New Law 2006: A Practical Guide to the Charities Acts", published by Jordans in March 2007 
• Regular contributor to updates to the loose-leaf publication "Jordans Charities Administration Service"
• Chair of the Jordans Charities Secretarial Administration conference and regular training on legal structures for charities and social enterprises throughout the North of England
• Member of the Northern Advisory Council of Charity Bank and Secretary of Harrogate Twins Club