Adrian is a lawyer running a niche law firm offering unreserved legal services to both professional and lay clients in France and the UK.
Prior to focusing on legal services, Adrian spent his time working between public relations (particularly crisis management) and legislative affairs in London (at Westminster) and Brussels (at the European Parliament).
Adrian's crisis management work included work with an international safety critical organisation in the aviation sector, as well as sporting bodies, companies and individuals needing strategic insight and communications support nationally and internationally.
On public policy, Adrian worked with lawyers, civil servants and politicians on a wide range of issues from reform of family law to securing changes on international development funding. With support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Adrian organised the first UK Parliamentary Delegation to Equatorial Guinea, to report on the country's purported transition to democracy and the rule of law, publishing a report which was highly critical of the then Government. In partnership with major international development organisations, Adrian also managed the 2008 project which took David Cameron to Rwanda to assist MPs understand the value of international development, leading to the UK changing policy on ID funding, as well as delivering funding for significant in-country projects, which included the building of two schools and the National Cricket Stadium. Adrian also worked with the Magna Carta Trust to highlight the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta and the global importance of the rule of law, and worked to highlight problems caused to tenant-publicans by tied tenancies, leading to the creation of the Pub Code and the Pub Code Adjudicator.
Adrian has also supported some important legal cases on copyright, defamation, "passing off" in elections, and several high-profile criminal trials. He also instigated Judicial Review proceedings against the UK Government regarding its policy on leaving the European Economic Area, causing the Government to change policy and give Parliament a vote on whether to remove the UK from the EEA. Adrian has a long standing interest in family law, intellectual property, media law (especially the 'Wild West' which is social media), human rights and constitutional law, and access to justice. Adrian supports a legal advice centre and regularly assists unrepresented individuals navigate the family justice system as a McKenzie Friend.
Adrian is an amateur musician, loves swimming, cricket and rugby, and supports a charity recycling unused cricket kit to help disadvantaged communities access the sport. He spent time as a carer, including for his mother, who suffered from dementia.