- High Court Judge, Queen's Bench Division (from 2018)
- Barrister - 7 King's Bench Walk, London (1986-2018) (Q.C. 2001)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007)
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005 to 2007)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991 to 1998)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (Junior Dean, 1988-90, and 1992-8) (from 1983 to 1990)
- Undergraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1980 to 1983)
- Commercial law, especially banking, insurance/reinsurance, professional negligence and shipping and arbitration
- Thomas Talfourd, Romanticism and public life in the early C19
- Chambers & Partners’ Insurance Silk of the Year (2008, 2014).