I was admitted as a solicitor at the end of 1979 and during my early career, I was a litigator and appeared in court on an almost daily basis.

However, I was trained in conveyancing and when I went into partnership in the firm of Littlestone Cowan in 1982 because of the boom in work I took on more transactional work alongside litigation and I found myself doing more and more property work, residential conveyancing, commercial conveyancing, landlord and tenant and gradually gave up litigation, so for the past 20 to 25 years I’ve been solely dealing with property.

I am a keen football fan and played regularly until recently, I attend a gym four times a week and generally like to keep fit