LLB (Hons), University of Durham (1997)
Diploma in Legal Practice, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (1998)
LLM (Legal Aspects of Medical Practice), University of Wales, Cardiff (2000)

• British Fertility Society (Member)
• Advisory Board of Progress Educational Trust (Member)
• Legal and Human Rights Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute, Florida, US (Member)
• Editorial Advisory Board of ‘Cell and Gene Therapy Insights’ (Member)
• Editorial Advisory Board of ‘Regenerative Medicine’ (Member)
• Law Society (Member)

Acting for Ted Jennings in his successful application to use a stored embryo with a surrogate following the unexpected death of his wife, and in the absence of specific consent (Jennings v HFEA [2022] EWHC 1619)

Acting for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in relation to their successful application for permission to use a monoclonal antibody for the treatment of sporadic CJD in circumstances where the drug had never been tested in humans (UCLH NHS Foundation Trust v KG [2018] EWCOP 29)

Acting for IVF Hammersmith Limited in their successful defence of a claim for breach of contract and the costs of raising an unwanted, healthy child following the forgery of the Claimant’s signature by his ex partner (ARB v IVF Hammersmith & R [2017] EWHC 2438 (QB) and [2018] EWCA Civ 2803 (CA))

Advising the Francis Crick Institute in relation to their successful application for a licence to conduct germline gene editing in human embryos

Acting for BMI Healthcare Limited and their former patient, Samantha Jefferies, in her successful application for a declaration that the amendment of her late husband’s consent was invalid, enabling their embryos to remain in storage (Jefferies v BMI Healthcare Ltd & HFEA [2016] EWHC 2493 (Fam))

Representing Elizabeth Warren in her successful application for a declaration that it would be lawful for her late husband’s gametes to remain in storage for up to 55 years (Warren v CARE Northampton Ltd & HFEA [2014] EWHC 602 (Fam))

Advising two IVF clinics in relation to their successful challenge to the HFEA’s decision to impose a condition on their licences relating to multiple birth rates (ARGC & RGI v HFEA [2013] EWHC 3087 (Admin))

Acting for Kings College London and Newcastle University in relation to a judicial review of licences granted for the creation of cytoplasmic human-animal hybrid embryos for stem cell research purposes (R (on the application of Quintavalle and the Christian Legal Centre) v HFEA [2008] EWHC 3395 (Admin))

Giving invited oral evidence to the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee review of ‘Law and Reproductive Technologies’ in 2004

Advising Amicus Healthcare Ltd (now BMI Healthcare) and Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Trust in relation to an unsuccessful application and appeals by a patient to use stored embryos notwithstanding the withdrawal of her former partner’s consent (Evans v Amicus Healthcare Ltd & Ors [2004] EWCA Civ 727)