Practice Team membership and other areas of specialisation
Ancillary Relief including cohabitation and Inheritance Act cases
International & Private Child Law including education and schooling issues
Degrees and other professional qualifications
LL.B (Hons) 1
st Class, Luton University
LL.M (Cantab), Cambridge University
Joseph Jackson Memorial Scholarship for Family Law
Caroline Lester Prize for Family Law
Lloyd Jacob Memorial Exhibition
Middle Temple Benefactors Scholar
Professional associations
Member of the FLBA
Professional experience and publications
Philip is now the co-author of the division on family breakdown in Butterworths Civil Court Precedents (from October 2006 issue)
He has worked in Ireland as a legal researcher at the Law Reform Commission, Dublin, where he was the Principal Legal Researcher on: (i) a Consultation Paper on Public Inquiries, published in March 2003; and (ii) a Consultation Paper on the Establishment of a DNA Database in Ireland, published in March 2004.
In 2002 Philip worked for the Victoria Climbi￩ Inquiry as part of the legal team.
Personal, including interests
Foreign travel, particularly walking and trekking - most recently Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
Ireland, its people, culture and landscape.
Acoustic guitar.
Fiction and non-fiction, especially legal biographies and humour.
Playing squash, cycling and (nowadays) watching rugby, particularly Gloucester RFC.
