Has overall responsibility for the firm's public policy and government affairs practice. Also has extensive experience of commercial litigation and dispute avoidance including media litigation and public law. Runs 24-hour global pre-publication unit. Writes and lectures regularly. Highly recommended in industry surveys for his administrative law, public policy and defamation expertise and cited in International Commercial Litigation survey of top practitioners. Author of Business and Human Rights Act (2000). Consulting Editor of UK Human Rights Reports and Chairman of Public Concern at Work, the whistleblowing charity. Leads the firm's pro bono programmes. FRSA. He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2009.