Areas of Practice
Track Record
The Creative Foundation v Dreamland Leisure Limited and Others [2015] EWHC 2556 (Ch)) which resulted in the recovery of a Banksy mural, ‘Art Buff’, which was removed from a leasehold property in Folkestone. As well as being one of the first cases to consider the ownership of street art, the case also has wider implications for landlord and tenant law
Thwaytes v Sotheby’s [2015] EWHC 36 (Ch) which was a professional negligence claim relating to the sale of a painting sold as a copy but subsequently attributed to Caravaggio
Awards & Rankings
Chambers UK, Associate to Watch, 2022
Legal 500, Rising Star, 2020 – 2022
Chambers HNW, Associate to Watch, 2020-2021
EPrivateClient, Top 35 Under 35, 2020
Conference Speaking
Courtauld Law Society
Christie’s Education
Education & Qualification
University of Cambridge
Qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and trained with Boodle Hatfield
Courtauld, Art history short-course
Arts Council, secondment
Institute of Art and Law’s Diploma
Recommended by Becky
We are delighted to be sponsoring the Young London Print Prize run by Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. The prize provides a platform for young Londoners to use art to express their personal response to climate change and is driven by the idea that all young people can be artists in their own right.
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