Matthew successfully completed his pupillage at 7NSQ part of which was spent working in the legal department of Imperial Innovations, the company responsible for spinning out the intellectual property of Imperial College, where he gained commercial experience in a legal setting.

Matthew has gained experience in various different aspects of contentious and non-contentious areas from advising on and drafting contracts, to interlocutory, appellate and trial advocacy, particularly in the following areas of practice:

Public Law practice:

• Election Law including Applications for Relief and Election Petitions;
• Education Law including applications to the OIA and internal disciplinary matter in Universities
• Judical Review of all types.
• Licensing of all types at Sub-Committee and Appeal stages.

Commercial & Chancery practice including:

• Contract disputes arising out of business to business transactions;
• Insolvency matters both personal and company related

Intellectual Property and computer law and related fields:

• copyright, registered and unregistered design rights,
• trade marks & passing off,
• confidential information and trade secrets,
• software and the internet matters;
• advertising and e-commerce;
• domain name rights and judicial alternatives to Nominet procedures

Employment matters:

• advising and drafting specialist contracts and compromise agreements;
• advising committees and local authorities on internal procedures;
• dealing with discrimination, unfair and wrongful dismissal and breach of contract cases.

Civil matters:

• debt orders and charging orders;
• possession hearings;
• statutory review

Professional Memberships:

• Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG) of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
• Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Employment Lawyers Association