MA, BCL (Oxon)
My primary research interests cover the breadth of commercial law with particular interest in contract law, restitution, the economic torts and the conflict of laws. These coincide with the papers I teach at Downing and at the Faculty of Law (contract, tort and commercial law) and also the main areas of my practice as a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings.
My current projects include research on the law of contract formation and privity in contract law. Longer term projects include work on the rescission and termination of contracts and contract damages. I have published a number of articles and notes in journals including the Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review and the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly on a range of commercial law subjects, which have been cited by and to the Commercial Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Books
Key Ideas in Commercial Law (Hart, 2023)
Edited Collections
The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 at 25 (Hart, forthcoming) (with Janet O’Sullivan and Louise Merrett)
Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law (Hart, forthcoming) (with Jonathan Morgan, Katy Barnett and Andrew Robertson)
Borderlines in Private Law (OUP, 2024) (with Julius Grower)
Landmark Cases in Private International Law (Hart, 2023) (with Louise Merrett)
Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court (Hart, 2020) (with Sarah Worthington)
Chapters in Edited Collections
‘Section 1 of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999’ in The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 at 25 (Hart, forthcoming)
‘Default Rules in Contract Formation’ in Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law (Hart, forthcoming)
‘Interpretation’ in M Chen-Wishart and P Saprai (eds), Research Handbook on The Philosophy of Contract Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming) (with Adam Kramer KC)
‘Unjust Enrichment | Contract’ in Borderlines in Private Law (OUP, 2024)
‘Shades of Frustration’ in E Peel and R Probart (eds), Shaping the Law of Obligations: Essays in Honour of Professor Ewan McKendrick KC (OUP, 2023)
‘The Eleftheria’ in Landmark Cases in Private International Law (Hart, 2023)
‘Justifications for and Limitations on Interventions by Undisclosed Principals’ in PS Davies and Tan CH (eds), Intermediaries in Commercial Law (Hart, 2022)
‘Variation and Waiver’ in Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court (Hart, 2020)
‘Proprietary Restitution’ in Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court (Hart, 2020) (with Sarah Worthington)
‘Disproportionate Penalties in Commercial Contracts’ in PS Davies and M Raczynska (eds), The Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms (Hart, 2020)
Journal Articles
‘In restraint of restraint of trade’ [2022] LMCLQ 134
‘Recent travails of fraudulent misrepresentation’ [2021] LMCLQ 636
‘Reliance: a comparison between the common law and s90A FSMA’ (2021) 36 JIBFL 389 (with Peter de Verneuil Smith KC)
‘Contracts, illegality and comity: Ralli Bros revisited’ (2020) 79 CLJ 64
‘A mistaken turn in the law of contractual misrepresentation’ [2019] LMCLQ 390 (with Paul S Davies)
‘Reputation in the conflict of laws’ [2019] LMCLQ 1
‘‘At the expense of’ in unjust enrichment: causal, direct or intentional transfers of value?’ [2017] LMCLQ 588
‘Against necessity as a ground for restitution’ [2016] RLR 26
‘Skirting around the issue: the corporate veil after Prest v Petrodel’ [2014] LMCLQ 269
Case Notes
‘Gold, banking cents and Mur’ (2025) 141 LQR (forthcoming) (with Mr Justice Foxton)
‘Contractualisation of civil jurisdiction’ (2024) 140 LQR 513
‘Fixed and floating charges: a question of consent or control?’ (2023) 82 CLJ 381
‘Pleading and proving foreign law’ (2022) 81 CLJ 24
‘Duress and uncertainty’ (2022) 138 LQR 194
‘Applicable law and arbitration agreements’ (2021) 80 CLJ 238
‘Remoteness in contract damages’ (2021) 80 CLJ 29
‘Risks on the contract/unjust enrichment borderline’ (2020) 136 LQR 349 (with Graham Virgo)
‘Freedom of contract and restraint of trade’ (2020) 79 CLJ 11
‘Lawful act duress (again)’ (2020) 136 LQR 7 (with Paul S Davies)
‘Piggyback jurisdiction and the corporate veil’ (2019) 135 LQR 551
‘Isn’t Brexit frustrating?’ (2019) 78 CLJ 270
‘Further narrowing the scope of unjust enrichment’ (2019) 78 CLJ 24
‘Non-assignment clauses – the statutory solution’ (2019) 135 LQR 205
‘Restitution for wrongs: one step forward, two steps back?’ [2018] RLR 60
‘Jurisdictional gateways in the CPR’ (2018) 77 CLJ 36
‘Lawful act duress’ (2018) 134 LQR 5 (with Paul S Davies)
‘Restitution for wrongs: one step in the right direction?’ (2017) 133 LQR 384
‘A pyrrhic victory for the doctrine against penalties’ [2016] JBL 115 and 251
‘Attributing illegalities’ (2015) 74 CLJ 409
‘An application of Wrotham Park damages’ (2015) 131 LQR 218
‘Negligence and the corporate veil: parent companies’ duty of care to their subsidiaries employees’ [2014] LMCLQ 454
‘Penalty clauses revisited’ [2014] JBL 512
‘Taking balance-sheet insolvency beyond the point of no return’ (2013) 72 CLJ 515
Book Reviews
E Bant, K Barker and S Degeling (eds), Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment (Edward Elgar, 2020): (2021) 80 CLJ 414
C Mitchell and S Watterson (eds), The World of Maritime and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Francis Rose (Hart, 2020): (2020) 136 LQR 690
A Arzandeh, Forum (Non) Conveniens in England: Past, Present and Future (Hart, 2019): (2020) 79 CLJ 189
A Burrows, Thinking About Statutes: Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement (CUP, 2018): (2019) 78 CLJ 222
C Mitchell, P Mitchell and S Watterson (eds), Goff & Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment 9th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016) and J Edelman and E Bant, Unjust Enrichment 2nd edn (Hart, 2016): [2018] RLR 280
C Witting, Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks (CUP, 2018): (2018) 34 JPN 163
G Virgo and S Worthington (eds), Commercial Remedies (CUP, 2017): (2018) 81 MLR 378
S Degeling and J Varuhas (eds), Equitable Compensation and Disgorgement of Profit (Hart, 2017): [2017] LMCLQ 606
PS Davies, Accessory Liability (Hart, 2015): (2015) 36 LS 382