I am a Consultant in Mourant’s Litigation department in Jersey, specialising in legal research, knowledge resources and complex legal analysis.

Over the course of my career, I have supported many leading Jersey cases at every level of the courts, including matters before the Privy Council. My work has involved extensive legal research as well as assisting with the preparation of advice, submissions and case strategy across a broad range of contentious matters. My principal areas of interest are company law, trust law and insolvency law.

I also have a longstanding interest in Jersey’s customary and civil law heritage, especially as received through the works of the eighteenth-century French jurist Pothier. I have considerable experience in researching the French-language customary and civil law whenever this is needed in order to produce case-winning arguments in areas where the Jersey courts follow these authorities.

I have published legal articles and contributed to legal textbooks in a number of areas. I have previously been a member of the editorial board of the Jersey & Guernsey Law Review, for whom I continue to provide case summaries. I also write and publish a periodical summary of new cases and legislation in Jersey called the Weekly Digest of Jersey Law.

I am a non-practising English Barrister (Middle Temple) and an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey.

My academic background includes a joint honours degree from the University of Dundee in Jurisprudence and Philosophy, followed by postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge on philosophical aspects of sentencing. I then undertook a period of further research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. More recently, I have pursued research in company law as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.

Outside my legal work, I have a keen interest in history, particularly the origin and meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry. My book, 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry (Fourth Estate), was reissued in 2026 with a new introduction and postscript. The work has also been published in French by Les Éditions du Rocher and in the United States by Walker Books/Bloomsbury.