“He is a very effective advocate who is very personable.”

Chambers UK 2025

“Patrick is an absolutely brilliant KC. He is sharp, attentive, personable, strategic and achieves superb results.”

Chambers UK 2025

“He is intellectual and excellent at what he does. Calm and collected, he doesn’t settle unnecessarily and doesn’t fight unnecessarily.”

Chambers UK 2025

“Patrick is a top-drawer disease specialist. He is super experienced, knowledgeable and a brilliant advocate. He’s well respected by the Bench.”

Chambers UK 2025

“An excellent barrister who is client-friendly in difficult circumstances.”

Chambers UK 2025

“My first-choice silk for disease cases. He is always the brightest man in the room. He is collegiate, calm and collected, and he doesn’t settle or fight unnecessarily.”

Chambers UK 2025

“Patrick is an absolutely brilliant KC. He is sharp, attentive, personable, strategic and achieves superb results.”

Chambers UK 2025

“Patrick is a skilful negotiator and tactician. He never loses sight of the end goal and has great clarity of thought and vision.”

Chambers UK 2025

“Patrick is an excellent and versatile personal injury silk. He is a go-to silk for complex occupational disease litigation, particularly asbestos-related disease, but he also undertakes brain injury cases. He is formidably bright but also very humble and safe effacing. His advocacy style is meticulous and thorough.”

The Legal 500 2025

“Patrick is technically brilliant, always well prepared and a very effective advocate. His drafting is excellent and he has an easy-going manner in conference which puts clients and witnesses at ease whilst demonstrating his grasp of issues and offering sound strategic and commercial advice.”

The Legal 500 2024

“Patrick is an excellent advocate and is a realistic but tenacious negotiator in settlement meetings. Has genuine empathy for the client.”

Chambers and Partners 2023

“‘Patrick is a calm, measured, immensely intelligent, and articulate barrister who puts clients and instructing solicitors at ease.  Explanations are given in a straightforward and understandable way. His ability to think on his feet in court room settings is second to none.’”

The Legal 500 2023

“‘He is enormously experienced and unflappable in court. He gives off an aura of unshakeable confidence and clients love him.  He’s very pragmatic and very effective.  Very approachable and excellent with clients.  He is very concise and measured in the way he puts points across, and has an immense range of detailed knowledge.’”

Chambers and Partners 2022

“Patrick is an excellent advocate and is a realistic but tenacious negotiator in settlement meetings.  Has genuine empathy for the client.”

The Legal 500 2022

“He is very experienced and a good cross-examiner. He’s very nice and polite – a smiling assassin.”

“A market-leading barrister in asbestos litigation.”

“A very good, clever barrister.”

Chambers and Partners 2022

“His sharp analytical brain and strong performance in court make him a heavyweight in the disease arena.”

The Legal 500 2021

“He’s very incisive, incredibly well organised, clear in what he wants to achieve at any meeting you have with him and has an extremely pleasant manner.  On his feet he’s very, very thorough and very meticulous.  A very good advocate.  He’s diligent, thorough and gets good results.”

Chambers and Partners 2020

“Sees the bigger picture and is great with clients.”

The Legal 500 2020

“Highly regarded personal injury silk with vast experience in disease claims.  He has particular expertise in matters involving occupational cancer and is praised by solicitors for his straightforward approach to issues.  He is the pre-eminent silk for disease-related injury issues in the country.  He has an unrivalled reputation for diseases and regulatory work.  Patrick adopts a hands-on, no-fuss, collaborative approach with his instructing solicitors, providing support and guidance throughout with the sole aim of getting the very best outcome for the client.”

Chambers and Partners 2019

“‘He has phenomenal attention to detail.’”

The Legal 500 2019

“He is a specialist personal injury silk with impeccable standards and he delivers a no-nonsense approach.  His manner is very user-friendly, and he gets to the point very clearly and in a way that is easily understood.”

Chambers and Partners 2018

“He always goes the extra mile.”

The Legal 500 2018

“He’s very bright, very sharp and a safe pair of hands.” “He has an amazing memory for detail, and he’s very kind to the clients – he puts them at ease while still being straight with them.”

Chambers and Partners 2017

“In court he really sticks to his guns and ensures the client’s case is fully heard.”

The Legal 500 2016