Special interest in asbestos-related disease cases, particularly Mesothelioma.

Partner at Irwin Mitchell
Specialist in asbestos related diseases. Represented June Hancock in the Armley environmental asbestos case and achieved the highest award to date in an industrial disease/fatal injury case (£4.37m).

• Articled Russell Jones & Walker
• Qualified in 1988
• Assistant solicitor at Stewarts 1988-1990
• Joined Irwin Mitchell in 1990, made partner in 1994
• Head of IM's national Asbestos Diseases Litigation Unit
• Fellow of College of Personal Injury Law (CPIL)

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma - Edited by Kenneth O'Byrne and Valerie Rusch, Published by Oxford University Press, 2006

• APIL
• American Association for Justice
• Australian Lawyers' Alliance
• Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL)
• Chairman of management committee of South east Sheffield CAB
• Secretary of the Sheffield Occupational Health Advisory Service (SOHAS)
• Headway Derby
• Sheffield and Rotherham Asbestos Group
• Trustee of the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund
• Chair of the IM Charities Foundation
• British Lung Foundation