[3] In 1999 he was the second solicitor, after Laurence Collins of Herbert Smith LLP who represented the Chilean government against Pinochet in 1998, to appear and the first to lead and win a case in the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords (then the senior most court).
The legal team made statements to and had meetings with influential parts of the media to highlight the then inflexibility of the law on illegal gun possession.
[11] In April 2019 his joint report on the trial of Egyptian rights activist Amal Fathy was launched at a press conference in the European Parliament.
[12] In 2020 the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic in collaboration with TrialWatch and the Clooney Foundation for Justice Initiative published a report on the trial of two environmental activists in Thailand.
[19] His candidature drew attention to comments from the incumbent MP, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, who stated that he wants to "scrap the Human Rights Act.