Shane is a highly rated senior junior with a practice focused on commercial disputes. He is regularly instructed against leading counsel, and has extensive advocacy experience of both trials and appeals. He balances sole instructions with working as part of a team on larger cases.       

Shane is recognised as a leading junior in the current legal directories for commercial litigation, civil fraud, media and entertainment and sport. Recent comments include:

  • "Shane is technically excellent, really details-focused, and delivers advice in a client friendly and commercial manner. A real star."- Legal 500, 2024
  • "Shane is an excellent barrister with a huge brain. He is responsive and client friendly."- Chambers & Partners, 2024

Previous comments include: 

  • "A superb junior, who is all over the detail and has good strategic instincts"- Chambers UK, 2023 
  • "Certainly one of the smartest juniors at the London bar. His drafting is superb and clients like working with him."- Legal 500, 2023

Significant recent work highlights include: 

  • Jinxin Inc v Aser Media Pte Ltd: US$700m claim brought by a Chinese consortium in connection with the purchase of a majority shareholding in an international sports rights business, which became insolvent. 21 week trial listed for 2025. Shane appeared successfully unled at an important hearing concerning the application of privilege to company email accounts.
  • Vale SA v Steinmetz: US$2bn fraud claim concerning a joint venture for the mining of iron ore in the Republic of Guinea. Shane acted for the Second Defendant. The claims were all dismissed with indemnity costs.
  • Advising the Cabinet Office in connection with the UK Covid Inquiry.
  • Advising the Home Office, the Foreign Office and the Treasury in relation to asset seizure and the war in Ukraine.
  • R (ex parte Majera) v SSHD: acted successfully for the intervener in an important Supreme Court case on the constitutional principle that a court order must be obeyed until and unless it is set aside or varied by the Court, or overruled by legislation.
  • Advising a well known pop star in relation to the termination of agreements with their manager, publisher and associated agents. 
  • Appearing unled for a well known F1 driver in an arbitration concerning a dispute over their contract.

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Commercial

Shane has an extensive commercial practice, covering a broad range of contractual disputes, civil fraud and international arbitration. His cases often involve jurisdictional and cross-border issues. He balances instructions as sole counsel with larger-scale litigation involving teams of counsel. 

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Civil Fraud, Asset Recovery & Injunctive Relief

Shane is particularly experienced in large-scale and complex fraud litigation, including interlocutory actions and enforcement proceedings. He also has considerable experience of international arbitration practice and procedure in a fraud context. 

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Arbitration

Shane has extensive experience of commercial and civil fraud arbitrations under the LCIA and ICC rules, as well as sports arbitrations under the FA Rule K procedure and various Formula One procedures. 

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Civil Liberties & Human Rights

Shane accepts pro bono instructions on human rights and international law matters, and has appeared in a number Supreme Court cases in that area. He is regularly instructed as junior counsel by the UNHCR on Refugee Convention matters: the challenge to the Rwanda refugee policy, FA (Pakistan), WA (Pakistan), AS (Afghanistan). He also appeared successfully, pro bono, in a recent Supreme Court case on the principles concerning the validity of ultra vires court orders (R (ex p Majera) v SSHD [2021] UKSC 46; [2021] 3 WLR 1075).

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Public & Regulatory

Shane accepts instructions across all areas of public law and is a member of the Attorney General's B Panel of counsel. He is particularly experienced in public law matters with a commercial element. He recently appeared in the Supreme Court for the Government in two joined expedited appeals challenging social welfare legislation.

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Media & Entertainment

As part of his commercial practice Shane has been involved in a number of intellectual property cases and advices within the sphere of Media and Entertainment. He also has particular experience of litigation concerning mass online copyright infringement.

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Sport

Shane has acted in a range of cases involving sports regulators, clubs and agencies, in the English Courts and in international arbitrations. He recently appeared unled in an F1 CRB arbitration for a well known F1 driver in a high profile contract dispute. He was instructed as junior counsel for WADA in a novel claim by an athlete for private law damages arising out of doping proceedings. He by the FA in Rule K arbitrations. Shane also enjoys acting for players in rugby disciplinary hearings. 

He co-authored the chapter on Sports Stadia in De Marco on "Football and the Law" (2nd Ed).

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Achievements

Education

BA (Oxon.) First Class (4th in year); BCL (Distinction)

Prizes & Scholarships

  • Pupil Advocacy Prize (Inner Temple, 2011)
  • Rawlinson Debating Cup: Winner (Inner Temple, 2010)
  • Thomas Finlay Intervarsity Moot: Finalist & Best Speaker (UCD Law Society, 2010)
  • Princess Royal Scholarship (Inner Temple, 2009 - 2010)
  • Freshfields Bruckhouse Deringer Scholarship (Oxford University, 2008)
  • Lincoln College Exhibitioner (Oxford University, 2005 – 2007)

Publications

Co-author of Third Party Liability, Chapter 3 in Paul Goulding KC (ed.) Employee Competition 3rd Edition (OUP, 2016)

Co-author of Sports Stadia, Chapter 20 in Nick de Marco KC (ed.) Football and the Law 2nd Edition (Bloomsbury 2022)

Other Interests

Travel, Photography, Music, Rugby

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