Adam specialises in sport and international arbitration, professional negligence, property damage, personal injury, insurance fraud, and inquests.
Adam first practised at Crown Office Chambers from 2014 to 2020, across its core practice areas, and he was ranked in Legal 500 2021 as a Rising Star for professional negligence. In Autumn 2020, he moved to Lausanne, Switzerland and took a key role within the world-leading sports arbitration team at Kellerhals Carrard. Adam returned to self-employed practice at Chambers in Autumn 2023, while retaining a position of “Of Counsel” at Kellerhals Carrard.
Adam has extensive advocacy and drafting experience across multiple complimentary areas of law and in various tribunals, including the county court, High Court, coroner’s court, Court of Arbitration for Sport, first-instance sport tribunals, regulatory tribunals, and the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He also has significant experience of the criminal courts from health and safety cases in his earlier years of practice. He is known as a fluent and robust advocate in court. He is used to working alone and as part of a close-knit team. His time in Switzerland as a “file-handling” lawyer has given him unique insight into how he can positively direct a case throughout its lifespan, and he therefore has a hands-on approach to cases.
Outside of work, Adam enjoys mountain sports, gardens, and Liverpool FC.
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Qualifications
- Hardwicke, Droop and Shelford Scholarships, Lincoln’s Inn
- Margaret Branthwaite CPE Prize
- BPTC, University of Law, Birmingham
- GDL, University of Birmingham
- BA Hons (First Class), Worcester College, University of Oxford
Memberships
- Lincoln’s Inn
- Ordre des Avocats Vaudois (Vaudois Bar Association, invited member)
- Federation Suisse des Avocats (Swiss Bar Association)
- Association Suisse de Droit du Sport (Swiss Sports Law Association)
