David regularly appears in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He frequently acts as sole counsel on behalf of the United Kingdom Government in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and has represented the United Kingdom in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights.
David was named the Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year at the Chambers and Partners Bar Awards 2024 and the Immigration Silk of the Year at The Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2023. David was shortlisted for the Chambers and Partners Human Rights and Public Law Junior of the Year award in both 2018 and 2016, and for the Legal 500 Public Law Junior of the Year award in 2018.
He is ranked as a leading barrister in six different areas in the legal directories: Administrative Law, Environment, EU Law, Immigration Law, Local Government Law and Planning Law. Prior to taking Silk, David was listed in the Planning Magazine survey of top-rated planning juniors and before that, in the top 10 planning barristers in the country under 35.
David was also on the Attorney General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown for five years before taking Silk, following five years on the B Panel and three years on the C Panel. He was also on the Treasury Solicitor’s former list of counsel specialising in Freedom of Information issues until its incorporation into the main Attorney General’s Panels. He regularly works on national security cases.
David began practice in 2004, after spending a year working as a Judicial Assistant to the Law Lords (Lord Nicholls and Lord Rodger).
He is the Joint Editor of the leading public law journal Judicial Review and was a Visiting Lecturer in European Community law at City University. David also co-edited the Second Edition of National Security Law, Procedure and Practice - the only UK legal textbook in the field of national security law.
David is fluent in French, and has good German, basic Czech and Slovak and is learning Farsi.