Adrian is one of few barristers also qualified at the German bar, where he concentrates on commercial cases involving a cross-border element.  He appeared in several of the most recent cases in the English Court of Appeal on the Brussels Convention on jurisdiction and judgments and its successor, the Brussels-I Regulation.  His English law practice has an emphasis on both property litigation and chancery work, including contested probate.  Adrian has the only case to reach the Court of Appeal on enduring powers of attorney. 

Areas of Emphasis

• Solicitors negligence
• Property litigation
• Commercial litigation
• German law

Career & Associations

• Hertford College, Oxford (BA 1985, MA 1991)
• Called to the English Bar 1986 (Middle Temple)
• Called to the New South Wales Bar 1993
• Called to the Munich Bar 2000
• Member of the Chancery Bar Association
• Member of the Munchener Anwaltverein

Appointments

• Recorder of the Crown Court
• Examiner of the High Court
• Chairman of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal
• Admitted as a Rechtsanwalt (German Attorney-at-Law) at the Munich bar and is entitled to appear before all regional High Courts in Germany
• Vice-chairman of the German Bar Association of Great Britain (Deutscher Anwaltberein in Grossbritannien)
• Committee member of the German Speaking Lawyers Association (deutschsprachiger Juristenverein)